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 in 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.

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. This type of silicone moulding requires expensive equipment and mould designs.

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