A method of dusting-preventive treatment in which a powder having dusting property
is treated with fibril-forming PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) to impart non-dusting
property thereto and the non-dusting property of the powder, after having been
reduced during transportation, are economically and advantageously recovered or
improved through a relatively simple step. The method comprises: a first dusting-preventive
treatment step in which fibril-forming polytetrafluoroethylene is added to a powder
having dusting property, and a compression/shear force is exerted to the mixture
at a temperature in the range of 20 to 200 C. to thereby regulate powder
so as to have a flow value of 150 mm to 200 mm; and a second dusting-preventive
treatment step in which a compression/shear force is exerted again at a temperature
in the range of 50 to 150 C., without newly adding fibril-forming polytetrafluoroethylene,
to the resultant powder after the powder treated in the first step has deteriorated
in dusting-preventive property during transportation with transporting means due
to such an external force that the polytetrafluoroethylene fibrils partly cleave
or powder particles partly fall off polytetrafluoroethylene fibril nets.