Watch how 3M™ PTFE Film Tape 5490 helps create slick equipment surfaces for easier material movement. Designed for printing, converting, manufacturing, and industrial processing teams working with rollers, formers, belts, plates, web materials, and low-friction contact points. Request a sample: https://s.3m.com/nqo77as2 3M™ PTFE Film Tape 5490 is designed to provide a smooth PTFE surface that helps reduce friction where materials need to slide, release, or move across equipment surfaces. Demo summary • Three tape paths are created on a steel plate using 3M™ PTFE Film Tape 5490, PP tape, and PVC tape. • Equal calibration weights are placed at the top of each path. • The plate is lifted gradually to compare how easily each weight slides down its tape path. Product highlights • Creates a smooth, slick surface with an extremely low coefficient of friction. • Supports low-friction surfaces on rollers, formers, and similar equipment areas. • Helps facilitate movement of web materials in lay-flat and roll-wrap applications. • Can help minimize clean-up where sticky materials and inks build up on rollers, plates, and belts. • Silicone adhesive provides clean removal from a variety of surfaces. • Excellent chemical resistance except to organic solvents. Observed results • The weight on the 3M™ PTFE Film Tape 5490 path begins sliding at the lowest angle of inclination. • The PP tape path requires a higher angle before the weight slides. • The PVC tape path requires the highest angle before the weight slides. • In this demo, 3M™ PTFE Film Tape 5490 provides the lowest-friction sliding surface of the three tapes tested. Why it matters • Low-friction surfaces can help support smoother movement of web materials in printing and converting applications. • Slick PTFE surfaces can help reduce drag on rollers, formers, plates, belts, and other contact points. • Easy-release surfaces can help reduce build-up where sticky materials and inks occur. • Mold release applications can benefit from surfaces that help bonded materials separate more easily. • Reduced friction can support smoother equipment operation in suitable manufacturing and industrial processing environments. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:15 Non-stick surface demonstration 00:39 Conclusion Resources & next steps • Request a sample: https://s.3m.com/nqo77as2 • Product details: https://s.3m.com/m6tpd158 • Find the right engineered industrial tape: https://s.3m.com/zlid3vll #3MEngineeredIndustrialTapes #EngineeredForEngineers #RegulateFriction

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