Conference focuses on silicone rubber

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team May 16, 2006

An international conference on silicone rubber will offer a good opportunity for material and compound manufacturers, processors, designers, materials' specifiers and researchers to meet.

Silicone Elastomers 2006 is the first international conference on silicone rubber offered by Rapra Technology, and offers a good opportunity for material and compound manufacturers, processors, designers, materials' specifiers and researchers to meet.

It takes place on 19th and 20th September 2006 at the Holiday Inn, Frankfurt, Germany.

Silicone rubber is well established as an elastomer with consistent properties over a very wide temperature range, good thermal and chemical stability and electrical resistance, and high biocompatibility.

Because of its relatively high cost, silicone rubber has tended to be used where its exceptional properties are essential.

With ever increasing application demand for higher temperature and greater environmental resistance, and ease of use, there is continuous technical development of silicone elastomer materials, compounding ingredients, processing and applications.

Liquid silicone rubber (LSR), with easy processing due to low viscosity and ability to economically form high precision parts, is showing a particularly high growth rate.

Silicone Elastomers 2006 brings together major material manufacturers looking at growth areas in the market, and new developments in high temperature vulcanised (HTV), room temperature vulcanised (RTV), LSR, and fluorosilicone elastomers, together with suppliers offering colouring, finishing and adhesive systems, and processors and machinery manufacturers providing mixing, extrusion and moulding systems.

There is also a strong emphasis on the major growth areas of injection moulding machines, tooling, and processes for LSR, and medical, pharmaceutical and food applications.