The Business Divisions of Taconic

Taconic is a privately owned company, consisting of two business divisions, all specializing in coating of glass fabrics with PTFE:
  • Advanced Dielectric Division (ADD)

  • Industrial Products Division (IPD), which manufactures a wide range of coated materials, including specialty fabrics, pressure sensitive tapes, engineered conveyor belts and silicone products.
    One of it's sub-divisions, Food Products Division, offers a wide range of fabrics and converted materials to the institutional, retail food and food service markets.
    The other sub-division is Architectural Fabrics Division (AFD), whose products are designed to provide lightweight, fire proof, and beautiful alternatives to traditional architectural materials.

  • Introducing Advanced Dielectric Division ADD
    Taconic Advanced Dielectric Division manufactures PTFE/woven glass base materials for microwave, RF and high speed digital applications. Applications include LNAs, LNBs, PCS/PCN antennas, GSM and UMTS antennas, power amplifiers, filters, passive components, automotive cruise control, aerospace guidance telemetry, phase array radar, etc.

    ADD USA
    The World Headquarters of Taconic Advanced Dielectrics Division (ADD) is located in Petersburgh, NY (USA). This facility incorporates the best available computer controlled vacuum lamination equipment for the manufacture of PTFE/glass fabric base materials, computer aided design capabilities, and all appropriate test equipment.
    In LaVerne, CA (USA), Taconic ADD manufactures it’s patented TacPreg and TacLam product lines. This unique facility allows Taconic to also coat with thermoset resins.

    ADD Asia
    Taconic ADD's largest manufacturing plant is located in Cheonan (South Korea), which commenced operation on September 1, 2005. It was built to serve the ever-growing Asian RF & microwave market.

    ADD Europe
    Taconic ADD in Mullingar (Ireland) is the distribution centre for Europe, a fast turnaround facility which gets supplied from the manufacturing plants in the USA and Korea.

    Dual Sourcing
    Base material manufacturing plants in different parts of the world, allows Taconic ADD to offer its customers a unique, dual-sourcing capability for microwave and RF materials. Aside from world class quality and service, this feature becomes more important as the RF, microwave and high-speed digital designs increase their complexity.

    Please Visit us!
    We encourage customers to visit our manufacturing facilities whenever possible. We are proud of our heritage as leading supplier of microwave and RF laminates, and want to share that with you.


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