Flexibility and durability. Resilience and toughness. Stain resistance and colorability. These are just a few of the many combinations possible with versatile elastomers, plastomers and silicone rubbers. The molecular architecture of these materials offers valuable combinations of performance properties, such as excellent optics, sealing, elasticity, flexibility, waterproofing, durability, electrical insulating qualities and much more.
The versatility of elastomers, plastomers and silicone rubber materials offers almost unlimited capabilities for a wide range of applications and products. The many uses and benefits these materials offer include:
Transportation – offering excellent coating and sealing capabilities for airbags as well as lightweighting, chemical and temperature resistance, flexibility and durability for moldings, seals, gaskets and more
Hygiene – offering excellent flexibility and comfortable, safe softness for elastic hygiene applications in baby, child and adult care products
Healthcare – offering a clear, lightweight alternative that is safer than glass for medical applications
Building materials – providing excellent flexibility, weatherability, durability and heat seal capabilities for roofing products as well as shape control, adhesion and odorless properties for flooring products
Sports and Leisure – enabling softness, shape retention and foaming capabilities for athletic footwear that provide shock absorption, comfort and durability while helping to reduce system costs
Electrical and energy – optimizing energy delivery with moldable and durable cable jacket and insulation that has high reliability, watertightness for underground cables, low flammability and low energy loss
Kitchen utensils and consumer products – enabling easy-to-wash kitchen utensils and household items with excellent aging resistance and usable in hot or cold temperatures; providing colorful gripping surfaces for consumer products such as toothbrushes, hairbrushes, razors and more
