What Silicone Machine Do You Need For Your Silicone Production?

2024-03-16

Silicone has a wide range of uses and can be seen in our daily lives, such as mobile phone casings or earphone covers in the electronics industry, daily necessities and kitchen utensils, maternal and infant products and toys, etc. Silica gel is a relatively advanced product in the rubber and plastic industry. A kind of material, so silicone products are generally high-end products. So how are these silicone products produced? What equipment and machines are needed? What are the steps?
Below is Jinyu Machinery`s introduction to a series of Silicone Machines for manufacturing silicone products.

1. Machines used for solid silicone. These machines are mainly used to make single-color silicone products. And it is made of solid silicone raw materials, with a simple process, mainly vulcanization molding.

The rubber mixing machine is used to add vulcanizing agents, color pastes and other additives to the raw materials to produce the product color. This is a process that cannot be omitted.
The silicone cutting machine is used to cut the refined rubber material into the size and weight required for molding. It is not only precise in cutting, but also high in efficiency. If you are only making miscellaneous silicone parts, you can use manual methods to draw out the glue.
Electronic banger: According to the weight of the silicone product, use an electronic banger to weigh it.

Hydraulic press (also called flat plate vulcanizing machine): This is a necessary equipment for molding silicone products. The pressure, mold temperature, vulcanization time and other conditions required for molding are all determined by this equipment. Jinyu Machinery has different types of silicone Hydraulic Machine.

2. Machine for liquid silicone
Mixer: Used to mix liquid silicone raw material, curing agent, diluent, and color paste, and mix it into the color required for the product through the mixer.

Vacuum Machine: After the liquid silicone material is stirred, bubbles will be generated, which will affect product quality. A vacuum machine is required to remove the bubbles.

Dispensing Machine: Put the color-adjusted liquid silicone material into the dispensing machine barrel. Usually the dispensing machine has many barrels and many needles, and different colors can be put in to make multi-color silicone products. Jinyu Precision Machinery has Dispensing Machines that can produce 8/12/16/18/24 colors.

Baking machine: Place the product mold filled with liquid silicone into the baking mold table and let it heat and solidify to form the product. The baking mold table only bakes very small liquid silicone products, or can only make flat, one-layer products. If you are making multi-layer or three-dimensional silicone products, you still need a vulcanizer, which is the silicone hydraulic molding machine mentioned above. By combining liquid silica gel with solid silica gel, a multi-color silicone product is formed.

Liquid silicone injection molding machine is also an LSR Injection Molding Machine. This machine converts solid state into liquid state to make silicone products. In other words, it does not require solid silicone. All liquid silicone can be used for molding. Jinyu Precision Machinery has developed such a machine. Products made of pure liquid silicone have high quality and low scrap rate, which is very suitable for high-quality silicone products. For example, pacifiers made of food-grade silicone, silicone gaskets and other medical industries. LSR Silicone Injection Molding Machine.

3. Machines for mold cleaning
Sandblasting machine, after the mold is produced for a period of time, some dirt will accumulate on the surface, which will affect production. At this time, the mold needs to be cleaned, and the sandblasting machine is a necessary machine for cleaning the mold.

4. Molds are usually copper molds or aluminum films, as well as steel molds. Choose the mold according to the product you need. You can design the pattern yourself, and then find a mold supplier to make the mold.

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