Silicone Rubber Applications
This rubber can be extruded into tubes, strips, solid cord or any custom profiles.
Silicone Rubber can also be moulded into custom designs and shapes.
This form of synthetic rubber is available for making molds that are poured, brushed or sprayed on to a model.
Suitable for casting low melt metal alloys like lead, tin, pewter.
Also used in the production casting of resins.
Advantages of Silicone Rubber

Due to the physical, mechanical and thermal properties of silicon rubber, its advantages are many.
High and low temperature stability
Inertness, that is no taste or smell
Translucent and easy to color
Wide hardness range
Chemical resistance
Weatherability
Sealing performance
Electrical properties
Compression set resistance
Disadvantages of Silicone Rubber

Although silicone rubber has many advantages to its many properties, there are certain disadvantages of silicone rubber too.
Silicone rubber is generally high in cost.
It is sensitive to substances like sulfur clay that may prevent the silicone from curing which is known as cure inhibition.
Silicone rubber is usually very thick, having high viscosity.
It must be vacuum degassed before pouring to minimize bubble entrapment.
Forms of Silicone Rubber
Silicone rubber is available in the following forms:
Compounds: These are ready to use materials which can be pigmented and catalyzed for your processing equipment and end application.
bases: These silicone polymers contain a reinforcing filler. The bases can be further compounded with additives and pigments that produce a compound which meet your color and other fabrication needs.
Liquid silicone rubber (LSR): This rubber system can be pumped into a suitable injection molding machine which then can be heat cured to produce molded rubber parts.
Fluorosilicone rubber compounds and bases: They maintain many key properties of silicone, but also has other characteristics of superior chemical, fuel, and oil resistance.