Silicone moulding products are essential for industrial applications

Silicone moulding offers several important advantages for industries across the world. Here is a brief explanation of how silicone moulding works.

Silicone products are everywhere – often in the places you’d least expect.

They are widely used in medicine, industry, food, electronics and many other areas in products such as seals, catheters, food containers, respirators, keypads and car parts.

The reason silicone moulding is so popular is thanks to its many advantages - flexibility, hot and cold temperature resistance, tight seals, anti-oil, chemical resistance, anti-fire. It is increasingly becoming a part of everyday life.

Some silicone moulding technologies include injection moulding, cast moulding, dip moulding, reaction injection moulding, rotational moulding and transfer moulding.

Silicone is a non-toxic, heat resistance, high resilience and a thermosetting material.

Silicone moulding has several advantages including fast production speed, less waste, precision finished goods.

The three ways to mould that are most commonly used are compression moulding, transfer moulding and liquid injection. Both compression moulding and transfer moulding are suitable for small-scale production.

Production costs are fairly low because the required equipment and tooling design are not too expensive.

With large-scale production, liquid injection moulding is a more effective method owing to the short cycle time (typically less than one second) combined with less waste, consistent part quality, and low risk of contamination.

This type of moulding doesn’t require any pre-processing of raw materials so less cleaning is necessary, reducing potential labour costs.

But the liquid injection method has some disadvantages. The type of silicone moulding requires expensive equipment and mould designs.

Silicone sponge mould

Silicone sponge rubber has become an essential part of day-to-day living.

For example, cushions are stuffed with silicone sponge rubber. However, its applications go far beyond that.

People who play sports like golf or cricket can often use balls made of sponge rubber instead of a regular golf or cricket ball for safety.

Silicone sponge is also used to cover hot metal hoses – protecting workers from scalding while conserving energy.

Silicone sponge rubber is a primary source of high temperature insulation protection. One of its main advantages is its very low thermal conductivity, which makes it an excellent insulator.

Recent innovations have made silicone rubber compounds even more durable and resilient under harsh operating conditions.

Modern technology gives manufacturers the ability and technical resources to develop high quality silicone formulations.

These are supplied in a wide range of product formats including calendered sheeting, extrusions, gaskets, hoses, mould and insulated cables.

Silicone rubber products and services can be customised to the specific needs of your industry and all our silicone rubber products are supplied cost-effectively and efficiently.

By combining silicone base rubber with a formulation of special additives and pigments, developers are able to alter the chemical composition of the polymer to meet exacting specifications and standards.

The result is a custom formulated versatile silicone rubber with applications across a wide range of industries and markets.

Silicone products are tested against seven other samples to comply with current EU industry standard.

With higher health and safety expectations, the global demand for silicone has dramatically increased.

For more information on silicone moulding, a silicone mould or silicone sponge visit http://www.silicone.co.uk.

Silicone Engineering was one of the first companies dedicated to the processing of silicone rubber, supplying businesses with the highest quality silicone products since 1959.
Silicone Engineering has remained exclusively focused on silicone rubber innovations.
Our reputation in the market place as an innovative solution provider for silicone products is second to none, setting high standards for the supply of silicone on an international scale.
This manufacturing expertise and knowledge has not been diluted across other polymers.
Products include everything from silicone tubing, seals and hoses, to silicone sheeting, gaskets or bespoke moulding.
Silicone Engineering is the obvious choice for your silicone solution.

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