Dow Corning, Unleashing the Power of Innovation

Since its creation, Dow Corning has been supplying the industry with solutions for high performance applications in demanding environments. As a global leader in silicon based technology and engineered elastomers, we work in close collaboration with the major automotive industry players, developing innovative solutions that help increase reliability and safety of today and tomorrow’s cars.

Dow Corning offers total solutions to automotive industries

We provide technologies that help make automotive systems and components more dependable, more cost-effective and readily available to the public.

Innovation for reliability

• Protection of vital electrical and electronic components is provided by Dow Corning^® brand silicone-based fluids, compounds, gels, conformal coatings and encapsulants, Silastic^® brand elastomers, rubbers and resins and Molykote^® brand lubricants. They offer durable and flexible electrical insulation, protection from environmental contamination and extreme temperature and stress relief from shock and vibration.
• Our proprietary fluorosilicone technology allows the design of innovative fuel systems components that withstand the critical effects of fuel and fuel vapor. The wide choice of solutions, from Silastic fluorosilicone rubber compounds to Molykote greases, provides excellent fuel and fuel vapor resistance for sealing, gasketing or lubrication.
• If forming a tight environmental seal between the walls, pins, wires and contacts of your connectors is priority, count on GelTeck^®. Its self healing properties allow the insertion, removal and exchange of contacts without decreasing the sealing performance.
• With the increase in processing power and the trend toward smaller, more compact electronic modules, the need for thermal management is growing. Dow Corning's family of Thermal Interface Pads & Films or our wet dispensed product line provide excellent thermal management capabilities and give you the options to solving your heat dissipation needs

Innovation for durability and performances

• Molykote lubricants, anti-friction coatings, pastes and oils reduce friction and wear.
• Dow Corning MB Series Siloxane Masterbatches improve the surface properties of finished plastic parts, imparting increased mar and wear resistance and reduced Coefficient of Friction.

Innovation for aesthetics and touch

• Multiflex^® and TPSiV^® brand thermoplastic Elastomers, from Multibase, a Dow Corning company, offer an extended range of options to improving ergonomics, visual and tactile characteristics of auto interiors by unique "Soft-touch" effect.
• Multiflex Thermoplastic compounds offer a choice of polymer chemistries including styrenics and chemically modified olefins. They represent an ideal choice for superior quality skin laminates produced by different techniques, including vacuum thermoforming and low pressure moulding.

Innovation for cost savings

• Dow Corning Silicone Cured-in-Place gasketing and Dispensed Foam Gasketing materials help dramatically lower the cost of applying a seal or gasket to automotive components.
• We custom formulate Silastic Fluorosilicone Rubber Compounds to provide ready to use cost effective solutions in typical automotive sealing and gasketing applications where fuel resistance is required.
• Dow Corning MB Series Siloxane Masterbatches, used as process aid additives for thermoplastic materials, help achieve faster cycle times by increasing the compounds flowability.

Innovation for safety

• Silastic Liquid Silicone Rubbers are used to coat airbag cushions, enabling even deployments while providing protection to the fabric from the heat and force of inflation.
• Dow Corning Silicone Fluids are adopted in sensors to secure smart passenger airbag deployment, for their exceptional viscosity-temperature stability.
• Multiflex Compounds provide cost effective solutions to airbag covers design and production. They respond to the wide range of properties needed in airbag technology: low and high temperature deployment, easy processing to duplicate tear seam tolerances, UV resistance, aesthetics and soft touch feeling.

A Reliable Global Material Supply

When you choose Dow Corning as your preferred supplier, you get a fully integrated application engineering support along with high quality products. From parts manufacturing to consulting in critical components’ design, we support you, whatever the problem is.

Get in touch with us to benefit from a wide choice of solutions and from our extensive product offering:

	Dow Corning® sealants and adhesives,
	Multiflex® thermoplastics,
	TPSiV® alloys
	Silastic® silicone rubber,
	Dow Corning® silicone fluids, gels, conformal coatings
	Molykote® lubricants

For more information, visit www.dowcorning.com/automotive or send an e-mail to engineered.elastomers@dowcorning.com

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