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For more than 50 years, Dow Corning Dow Corning is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA. Dow Corning specializes in silicon and silicone-based technology, offering more than 7,000 products and services. Dow Corning is equally owned by The Dow Chemical Company and Corning, Inc.  has helped you succeed by offering the broadest line of silicone elastomers and custom compounding solutions--supported by the widest geographic presence and technical expertise in silicone materials available from a single supplier anywhere in the world.

Exactly the right rubber products and services

Dow Corning offers a full range of Silastic' brand silicone rubber Noun 1. silicone rubber - made from silicone elastomers; retains flexibility resilience and tensile strength over a wide temperature range
synthetic rubber, rubber - any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber
 bases and compounds for a wide variety of industrial and consumer applications, including Automotive, Aviation and Aerospace, Baby Care, Extruded Profiles, Gaskets and Seals, Hose, Imaging, Medical, Power and Utilities. Protective Equipment and Masks, Rollers (Industrial), Sponge, Sporting Goods, Toys, and Wire and Cable industries.

Silastic Silastic /Si·las·tic/ (si-las´tik) trademark for polymeric silicone substances that have the properties of rubber but are biologically inert; used in surgical prostheses.  High Consistency Silicone Rubber (HCR HCR High Commissioner for Refugees (UN)
HCR Home Condition Report
HCR Health Care Reform
HCR Highway Contract Route (US Postal Service)
HCR High Consistency Rubber
HCR Human Cognitive Reliability
) is a high-performance elastomer elastomer (ĭlăs`təmər), substance having to some extent the elastic properties of natural rubber. The term is sometimes used technically to distinguish synthetic rubbers and rubberlike plastics from natural rubber.  that has outstanding electrical insulating properties and is unaffected by many fluids, extreme weather conditions, ultraviolet light Ultraviolet light
A portion of the light spectrum not visible to the eye. Two bands of the UV spectrum, UVA and UVB, are used to treat psoriasis and other skin diseases.
 radiation and ozone. To fit the exact needs of your application, and help shorten development time, we can custom compound Silastic HCR to your specifications.

Silastic Fluorosilicone Rubber (FSR (Free System Resource) In Windows 3.x, the amount of unused memory in various 64K blocks reserved for managing current applications. Every open window takes some space in this area. See Windows memory limitation. ) offers unusually high chemical resistance combined with good flexibility in extreme conditions that make it ideal for applications that involve prolonged immersion in jet and automotive fuels and engine oils, as well as solvents and aggressive fluids.

Silastic[R] Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR 1. (networking) LSR - Label Switching Router.
2. (operating system) LSR - Local Shared Resources.
) has a unique combination of superior physical properties and excellent processing performance for your intricate designs and precise parts that you manufacture in large quantities. Silastic LSR can be automatically metered, mixed, and dispensed and the fast cure rate allows a reduction of production costs by slashing cycle times.

Complete, global solutions

For Dow Corning, global solutions encompasses everything we've learned over 50 years about the rubber industry, and turning that knowledge into solutions, whether it means simply supplying Silastic Silicone Rubber or sharing the resources of our global business network.

Dow Corning understands your needs and requirements like no other elastomer supplier. To understand how we can help you succeed, simply visit www.silastic.com.

Dow Corning Corporation 111 South Progress Drive East Kendallville, IN 46755 Ph: 1-800-248-2481

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