NILES, Mich.—Specialty Products & Polymers Inc. is adding a 3,000-sq.-ft. addition and a fifth silicone mixing line to its 50,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility in Niles. The firm said it will add a ...

Last year's custom mixer rankings featured very little in the way of surprises. This year's snapshot of the custom mixing sector presented more of the same across the landscape, save for one ...

Silicone rubber comes in solid and liquid types. Both have a similar basic structure, but need different cure and processing methods. Liquid silicone rubber (LSR) is a two-component system containing ...

Liquid silicone rubber is a prime candidate as a replacement for other elastomers such as polyisoprene. LSR has until now not been used in the manufacture of rubber syringe tips or stoppers. One of ...

NEW DELHI: The government is considering to make it mandatory for tyre manufacturers to mix silicon with rubber to improve quality and use of nitrogen to reduce cases of tyre-bursts, road transport ...