Most teams treat food-grade vs medical-grade silicone as a ranking. “Medical” sounds higher, so they assume it also covers food contact by default. That single
Most searches for liquid silicone rubber return encyclopedic definitions. They skip what actually decides a project on the floor: cure behavior, shrinkage, tolerance, and which
Buyers pick platinum cure because it reads like the safe default — “food-grade, medical-grade, no by-products” — and assume that box is closed the moment
Most “what is vulcanization” explanations stop at textbook chemistry and never tell you what it changes on the production floor or in your unit cost.
Buyers spec “silicone” and assume the cure system is a detail we sort out in the back. With peroxide cure, that assumption is where the
“Silicone rubber” on a drawing doesn’t tell your molder much. The biggest fork is the form the material starts in — and HTV is the
Most people meet RTV silicone as a tube of sealant from the hardware store — which hides how much the chemistry underneath actually varies. Pick
Most silicone overmolding programs don’t fail because silicone “won’t stick.” They fail because the team treated the substrate like a standard insert-molding job and assumed
The polymer on your BOM says “silicone.” It doesn’t say how it’s cured — and that single choice, platinum or peroxide, decides odor, compliance, clarity,
Most “silicone allergy” complaints we see do not start with a doctor. They start with a customer email: a rash under a wristband, redness around
Silicone printing can be challenging. Many businesses face issues like ink smudging, uneven curing, and color fading. These problems can lead to unsatisfactory results and
Based on troubleshooting hundreds of LSR injection molding runs, we know that additives in liquid silicone rubber formulations do more than just change product features—they
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