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STEP 4: SPRAYED TEMPLATE WITH BLACK SILICONE
STEP 2: PRIME TEMPLATES
EMANEL
STEP 3: SPRAYED TEMPLATE WITH MATT BLACK
STEP 1: FORM THE TEMPLATES
Silicone Rubber Manufacturing
Silicone rubber is a very specific rubber Methods of treatment of silicone rubbers are
product. You will not see silicone rubber items categorized as high-temperature curing
as much as other rubbers, such as process (HTV) and low-temperature curing
styrene-butadiene or natural rubber, due to process (RTV) based on the types of polymer
its specialized range of properties that are used. Depending on the specifications of the
suitable for just a handful of applications. It's finished product, the manufacture of silicon
more expensive than its other rubber rubber is done in different ways. Some of these
counterparts. production methods include injection molding
AND extrusion.
In the early 1930s, Corning Glass employed a
chemist, James Franklin Hyde, to test and •Extrusion is a manufacturing process designed
experiment with silicon to create a resinous to shape a silicon rubber product by the use of
binder that could be used to insulate high a die.
temperature engines and generators. Hyde was
able to successfully manufacture silicone and •During the process, the raw materials (silicon,
the term for this new high-temperature, rubber, catalyst, binders, among other
synthetic compound spread. EXAMPLES additives) are fed into the extruder at high
temperatures coupled with the spinning motion
Corning Glass and Dow Chemical Company of the screw.
started a program for the production and
manufacture of silicones in 1942. Over time, •The material is then forced through die of a
silicone rubber products such as sealing given form before the post-curing process.
compounds, wire insulation and aviation
equipment started to be produced. They also •The finished product is then cleaned, cooled
made "Silly Putty" the popular children's toy. and cut to the required sizes.
