Silicones That Work

Orlando is a premiere vacation destination, especially during the cold-weather months in more northern climates. This central Florida city is best known as the home of Walt Disney World, but Mickey Mouse isn’t the only attraction there. From April 5 to 7, 2016, members of the Gasket Fabricators Association (GFA) met at Orlando’s Rosen Shingle Creek conference center for the 2016 Gasketing/Converting Expo. Specialty Silicone Products (SSP) attended this three-day event, and learned [...]

Electronic designers need gaskets that resist electromagnetic interference (EMI), support electrical conductivity, and provide environmental sealing. In the automotive, aerospace, communications, and medical device industries, EMI gaskets made of particle-filled silicones are meeting these challenges. Yet designers also need elastomeric shielding with specific material properties such as softness or resistance to fuels. Cost-effectiveness and ease-of-fabrication are important, too. How to [...]

Particle-filled silicones provide environmental sealing, electrical conductivity, and resistance to electromagnetic interference (EMI) and/or radio frequency interference (RFI). These conductive shielding elastomers are filled with metal or metal-coated particles, and are supplied as sheets, rolls, or ready-to-mold compounds for the cost-effective fabrication of silicone shielding gaskets. Engineers use particle-filled silicones in numerous shielding and sealing applications, but can these [...]

Defense contractors need military gaskets that conduct electricity, resist electromagnetic interference (EMI) or radio frequency interference (RFI), and provide environmental sealing. Particle-filled silicones can meet project requirements, and also comply with MIL-DTL-83528, a U.S. military specification (MIL-SPEC) for electrically-conductive elastomeric shielding gaskets used in EMI and RFI suppression. MIL-DTL-83528 Gasket Materials As part of its line of SPECSHIELD™ EMI RFI [...]

Medical device and medical equipment manufacturers need high-purity silicones for tubing, cables, seals, gaskets, and other components. Specialty Silicone Products (SSP) supplies an ultra-clean line of platinum-cured silicones that are FDA, USP Class VI, and RoHS compliant. SSP-2390 Series silicones are also cost-effective and come in a range of durometers and custom colors. These medical grade silicones support precision die cutting and extrusion, and are available as sheets and ready-to-mold [...]