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Advances improve liquid fluorosilicone rubbers; Technology development
Rubber & Plastics News, September, 2003
Byline: Ronald Romanowski,
Liquid rubber molding offers many advantages to the rubber fabricator, particularly for high-volume parts. Even though the difference in price between the high consistency fluorosilicone, FSR, and the liquid fluorosilicone rubbers, FLSR, is greater than the case with dimethyl silicone rubber, the advantages of the liquid silicone product form justify its use. Fluorosilicone liquid rubber molding provides the ability to perform long runs with minimal manual intervention.
Nearly unattended automatic operation is possible; in regions of the world with high labor costs, a single operator can maintain an entire bank of liquid injection molding machines. Europe ...