Since its founding in 1961, Taconic has been on the leading edge of developing and marketing advanced engineered composite materials. Currently, this ISO 9002 registered company operates four divisions: Industrial Products, Advanced Dielectric, Architectural Fabrics and Food Products. Taconic's products are used by a wide variety of customers across a range of industries-whenever strong, lightweight, waterproof, thermal, fireproof and non-stick materials are required. HISTORY Lester T. Russell, the acknowledged inventor of the process for applying polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) to fibreglass fabric, founded Taconic in 1961. A production facility was added in Mullingar, Ireland in 1975 to service the expanding European and Asian markets. In 1988, the first PTFE coated architectural fabrics were produced in Taconic Mullingar, Ireland in response to the increased demands for additional high performance PTFE/glass fabrics for the growing architectural fabric structures market. For almost two decades, Taconic, has continued to expand its architectural fabric production capability. Today, the Taconic Architectural Fabrics Division is one of the key global manufacturers of architectural grade PTFE/glass fabrics and currently supplies its Solus® brand fabrics to fabric structure companies worldwide. In the past three years alone, Taconic has coated over 400,000 sqm (4 million sqft) of architectural fabric. With facilities in Europe, the Americas and Asia, Taconic/AFD is now able to serve its international customer base through its growing global manufacturing, sales and service organization.