Rubber moulding products for diverse uses

Rubber is a widely used substance which has many applications. It is used to manufacture various products for use in our daily life and also for special utility. Natural rubber has to be compounded or many substances mixed to it to impart specialised properties.

Use of rubber to make various products therefore needs certain properties to be added to the compound to cater to the specific need. They can be coloured black or any other coloured rubber compounds. After the compound is made ready, rubber moulding makes the material ready to be used. There are a variety of moulding methods like compression, transfer or injection moulding.

There are companies that are proficient in moulding various rubber products with the help of customer-provided moulds or by creating new designs as per customer specification. Rubber moulding with liquid injection method has higher set-up cost but in the long run it proves to be cost effective. In this method rubber is pre-heated thus making it suitable to be moulded into precision parts.

The viscosity of compounded rubber is greatly reduced in this particular method. Coloured rubber compounds are widely used in injection method as also in transfer and compression method. Customized colours are possible with adding fillers to the compound. Carbon black is the most common filler used in rubber compounds.

Carbon black not only gives a rubber compound the black colour but also more strength. Black rubber compound is physically stronger than other coloured rubber compounds. Strong rubber is required in manufacturing various machine parts. If your requirement demands other colours then white clay can be added.

This gives the rubber a white colour, to which then various minerals are added for creating different shades. These coloured compounds are moulded as any other rubber compound for various uses. Rubber moulding widens the use of rubber as variety of products can be manufactured. You have to choose the type of moulding depending on your requirement.

Liquid injection method of rubber moulding scores over other methods in the fact that you can completely do away with pre-form. Labour requirement is thus reduced as pre-forms don’t need to be set in the mould cavity. Lower viscosity of coloured rubber compound or black rubber compound leads to saving in time for each cycle of production.

When liquefied rubber is used it leads to less wastage. These factors make the process of moulding more cost effective. Unlike injection method pre-forms are a pre-requisite in compression method of moulding. This is useful for those products where cross-section is very large for compound to fill the mould.

Transfer process of moulding is ideal for coloured rubber compounds. Fewer and simpler types of pre-form are required in this method of moulding. In medical equipment industry rubber moulding products are used widely. Blood & insulin pumps; angioplasty balloons; blood separation systems and laboratory testing tools are some areas of use.

In electronics industry power distribution connectors; silicon chip; fibre optic cable boots and many other sophisticated appliances need rubber moulded products. Aerospace industry also uses rubber moulded precision components. Whatever be your requirement you can easily procure the best from a rubber moulded manufacturing company.

Best quality rubber moulding ( http://www.bdtechnicalpolymer.co.uk/moulding ) can be delivered to you as per your perfect specification. Customized coloured rubber compounds ( http://www.bdtechnicalpolymer.co.uk/rubber-compounding ) are produced at reasonable rates to suit both regular and specialised requirements.