Romar Engineering has long excelled in silicone manufacturing. Our world-class team of material engineers implicitly understand silicone properties – and that expertise is key to delivering our tailored and first-class silicone manufacturing solutions.
Silicone is a high performance material with a variety of potential uses. It is incredibly resistant to UV light, oxygen, ozone and general wear and tear. It’s heat resistant up to 250 degrees Celsius. It is a soft material that is comfortable against the skin. It has great biomedical properties and is very inert.
Silicone’s numerous properties align it with various commercial manufacturing uses across sectors including medical, mining and aerospace. Why choose silicone for your manufacturing project? These are some of the key benefits.
Silicone rubber is extremely resistant to high and low temperatures (-50°C to +250°C; specialty grades: -110°C to +300°C) with only slight changes in physical properties between -50°C and +180°C. It can be used indefinitely at 150°C with virtually no change in its physical properties.
Silicone rubbers are highly UV-resistant and able to withstand extreme wind, rain, salt and abrasion, providing higher durability than organic rubbers in external and some industrial environments.
Silicone rubber has a water-repellent surface, and it exhibits good chemical resistance and flame retardancy. When silicone rubbers do burn, they do not produce noxious gas.
Silicone’s long-term tensile strength and weatherability lead to its usage as adhesives, lubricants and sealants in highly regulated industries such as aerospace, mining and transport, in electronic devices and computer technology, and in power distribution. Silicone rubbers can be modified to exhibit radiation resistance with the addition of phenyl groups to the polymer molecules, and thus are usable as a material for cables in nuclear power plants.
With the ability to bond diverse materials, including concrete, glass, granite, steel and plastics, and absorb stress and movement from wind or earthquakes, silicone products are also found in construction applications.
Silicone rubber has high purity levels, compared with other polymers. It exhibits several other properties that make it suitable for applications that need to meet strict safety and certification requirements within the biomedical and food industries.
Silicone is inert, odourless and tasteless. It is resistant to bacteria, does not react with other materials and does not irritate the body.
When used externally, internally or intravenously, silicone materials do not generate unwelcome by-products or trigger allergic reactions.
At Romar, we manufacture silicone products and medical grade silicone that meet stringent quality standards.
Typical applications include tubing for drug delivery systems or heart pacemakers. Given its exceptional cushioning and ability to most closely approximate the consistency of skin, silicone is frequently found in prosthetics.
A key benefit of silicone manufacturing is its flexibility and suitability for most industrial and commercial manufacturing applications.
It is easy to formulate and we can modify it to suit specific applications and standards requirements across sectors.
Silicone is naturally translucent but can be manufactured in a range of colours. We can create varying degrees of hardness or softness and modify the coefficient of friction as needed.
Silicone has exceptional insulation properties, but we can alter it to exhibit semiconducting properties.
Silicone is readily cured and silicone molding is ideal for products as diverse as medical implants, automotive components and bakeware.
Romar’s award-winning silicone expertise helps us create highest grade silicone with exceptional stability over a wide range of temperatures and modified to required accuracy and surface finish.
With over 40 years of experience, we’re the leader in expert silicone manufacturing solutions, including medical grade silicone, custom silicone moulds, O-rings, sheets, food grade silicone and industrial grade silicone.
We have world-class engineers and advanced manufacturing facilities, including a Class 8 Clean Room. We’re fully equipped to deliver bespoke silicone solutions for industries including aerospace, medical, mining and defence.
If you would like to discover the benefits of silicone for your manufacturing project, please get in touch with us. Read more silicone manufacturing articles.
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