What is the difference between TPE material and silicone rubber?
TPE is a hot forming plastic, and silicone is a cold forming material.
Silicone rubber is a kind of special rubber, cross-linking has good mechanical strength, wear resistance and high temperature resistance, which belongs to the thermoset rubber, vulcanized after heating when the temperature is too high will not melt, combustion, complete combustion product is water and silica
TPE is a thermoplastic elastomer, which is a kind of elastomer material with rubber elasticity at high temperature and molten flow at high temperature
The main characteristics of the difference is not large, mainly in the processing areas, TPE can do thermoplastic coating.
