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Rubber
Rubber compounds rely on a combination of polymers, fillers, processing aids, curatives, and other functional materials to achieve the properties required for manufacturing and end use. Lintech supplies specialty raw materials used across a range of rubber and elastomer applications, supporting needs related to processing, reinforcement, bonding, durability, and finished-part performance.
Why It Matters
Material selection plays a central role in rubber processing and performance
Rubber compounds are formulated to deliver a specific balance of elasticity, strength, hardness, flexibility, abrasion resistance, adhesion, and environmental resistance. Those properties can vary considerably depending on the elastomer system, compounding ingredients, cure chemistry, processing conditions, and intended application.
Raw materials can influence both how a rubber compound behaves during mixing, forming, and curing and how the finished product performs in service. Reinforcement, flow, adhesion, dimensional stability, aging characteristics, and resistance to heat, moisture, chemicals, or weathering are among the many considerations that may shape a formulation.
Lintech supplies specialty materials from established manufacturers for rubber compounding, processing, bonding, and related applications, giving customers access to a broad range of technologies for existing formulations and new product development.
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What We Offer
Product Portfolio
Explore the raw materials and specialty technologies Lintech offers for Rubber, organized by chemistry and function to help you identify solutions for your processing, performance, and applications requirements.
Product Category
Biocides & Preservatives
- Dry-Film Preservative — Protects finished rubber articles in service against fungal growth, staining, and microbial biodeterioration.
Building Blocks & Misc
- Polyethylene Glycol — Serves as a dispersion and cure activator for precipitated-silica-filled rubber compounds, improving silica wetting and restoring the cure system.
- Specialty Additive — Contributes a targeted specialty function in rubber formulations – refer to the individual product for its specific effect.
Carbonates & Preparations
- Calcium Carbonate — Works as a functional filler in rubber compounds, adding bulk and body and contributing to the properties and cost balance of the cured material.
Clay Minerals
- Kaolin Clay — Reinforces elastomer compounds as a functional filler, supporting modulus, tensile strength, and abrasion resistance.
Cure, Dry & Film-Formation
- Polymerization Initiator & Accelerator — Crosslinks rubber and elastomer compounds through peroxide cure to build the cured network.
Diatomite, Perlite & Lightweight
- Diatomaceous Earth — Works as a reinforcing functional filler in rubber compounds, adding bulk and contributing to the mechanical properties of the cured material.
Dispersion & Surface-Control
- Wetting & Dispersing Additive — Promotes wetting and distribution of reinforcing fillers such as carbon black to support uniform compounding.
- Surfactant / Emulsifier — Serves as emulsifier in latex and emulsion rubber systems for stable compounding.
- Defoamer / De-aerator — Limits foam in latex compounding for more consistent processing and product quality.
Dispersions & Preparations
- Pigment Preparation — Disperses into natural rubber and synthetic elastomers as a free-flowing pigment preparation, giving vivid, well-dispersed non-black coloration.
Flame Retardants
- Flame Retardant Plasticizer — Softens rubber compounds to aid processing and flexibility while adding flame-retardant performance to the cured part.
- Flame Retardant — Compounded into rubber to reduce flammability and slow flame propagation while limiting smoke development in the cured part.
Hydrocarbon Resins & Tackifiers
- Hydrocarbon Resin Tackifier — Acts as a tackifying and reinforcing process resin in rubber compounding for tires and rubber goods, improving building tack and processing.
Inorganic Pigments
- Iron Oxide Pigment — Colours rubber goods and elastomers as an insoluble inorganic iron-oxide pigment, giving weather-fast red, yellow, brown, and black shades.
- Titanium Dioxide Pigment — Whitens and opacifies rubber goods and elastomers as a white pigment, raising brightness and providing a base for tinted shades.
Isocyanates, Prepolymers & Polyisocyanate Crosslinkers
- MDI Prepolymer — Acts as a one-component isocyanate binder that wets and bonds rubber granules into molded composite products with abrasion resistance and durability.
Methacrylate Monomers
- Methacrylate Monomer — Functions as a reactive comonomer and peroxide-cure coagent, with methacrylic acid forming metal methacrylate coagents that reinforce and crosslink the elastomer compound.
Mica & Feldspar
- Muscovite Mica — Works as a platy functional filler in rubber compounds, reducing permeability and reinforcing the matrix while improving heat and chemical resistance.
- Feldspar — Works as a reinforcing filler in rubber, contributing hardness, heat resistance, and durability to the cured compound.
Organic Pigments
- Organic Pigment — Colours non-black rubber goods and elastomers as an insoluble organic pigment, giving vivid shades with good tinting strength.
Rubber / Elastomer Bonding & Processing
- Adhesion Primer — Primes metal and rigid substrates to anchor rubber-to-metal bonding adhesives and improve environmental resistance of the bond.
- Rubber-to-Metal Bonding Adhesive — Bonds uncured or cured rubber to metal and other rigid substrates during vulcanization to form a strong rubber-to-metal assembly.
- Mold Release — Provides clean release of molded rubber parts from the mold during compression, transfer, and injection molding.
- Companion Curing Agent — Acts as a non-sulfur quinone-dioxime vulcanizing agent that cures butyl and synthetic elastomer compounds.
- Process Additive / Auxiliary — Supports the rubber bonding and compounding process as a conditioning, surface-preparation, thinning, or marking auxiliary.
- Functional Coating — Coats molded elastomer parts such as weatherstrip and seals to reduce noise and improve surface durability and appearance.
Silane Additives
- Surface Modification — Modifies surface characteristics and release behavior in rubber processing.
- Coupling Silane — Couples and crosslinks reinforcing fillers within the elastomer network, supporting reinforcement, modulus, and the cured mechanical properties.
- Surface-Modifying Silane — Treats mineral fillers to improve their dispersion and reduce moisture uptake in the elastomer compound, supporting consistent processing and properties.
- Adhesion Promoter Silane — Couples reinforcing fillers such as silica to the elastomer, improving filler dispersion, reinforcement, and the mechanical properties of the cured compound.
Silane Crosslinkers
- Polyfunctional Silane Crosslinker — Couples and crosslinks reinforcing fillers within the elastomer network, supporting reinforcement, modulus, and the cured mechanical properties.
Silicas
- Precipitated Silica — Acts as a reinforcing filler in rubber compounds, building modulus, tear and abrasion resistance and, in highly dispersible grades, lowering rolling resistance and heat build-up.
- Fumed Silica — Acts as a reinforcing filler in silicone rubber such as HCR, RTV, and LSR, building mechanical strength while controlling flow and slump in the uncured compound.
Silicon-based & Inorganic Binders
- Silane Sol-Gel Binder — Couples reinforcing fillers such as silica to the elastomer, improving filler dispersion, reinforcement, and the mechanical properties of the cured compound.
Talc
- Microcrystalline Talc — Works as a platy functional filler in rubber compounds, reinforcing the matrix and reducing permeability while improving processing and acting as a dusting and parting aid.
- Macrocrystalline (Lamellar) Talc — Works as a lamellar functional filler in rubber compounds, reinforcing the matrix and reducing permeability while improving processing and acting as a dusting and parting aid.
Waxes & Lubricants
- Metallic Stearate — Works as an anti-tack, dusting, and release agent and processing aid in rubber compounding and curing.
- Fischer-Tropsch Wax — Functions as a processing aid, lubricant, and release agent supporting flow and demolding in rubber compounding.
- Lubricant Wax — Functions as a processing aid, lubricant, and release agent supporting flow and demolding in rubber compounding.
Rubber / Elastomer Bonding & Processing
- Adhesion Primer — Primes metal and rigid substrates to anchor rubber-to-metal bonding adhesives and improve environmental resistance of the bond.
- Rubber-to-Metal Bonding Adhesive — Bonds uncured or cured rubber to metal and other rigid substrates during vulcanization to form a strong rubber-to-metal assembly.
- Mold Release — Provides clean release of molded rubber parts from the mold during compression, transfer, and injection molding.
- Companion Curing Agent — Acts as a non-sulfur quinone-dioxime vulcanizing agent that cures butyl and synthetic elastomer compounds.
- Process Additive / Auxiliary — Supports the rubber bonding and compounding process as a conditioning, surface-preparation, thinning, or marking auxiliary.
- Functional Coating — Coats molded elastomer parts such as weatherstrip and seals to reduce noise and improve surface durability and appearance.
Carbonates & Preparations
- Calcium Carbonate — Works as a functional filler in rubber compounds, adding bulk and body and contributing to the properties and cost balance of the cured material.
Clay Minerals
- Kaolin Clay — Reinforces elastomer compounds as a functional filler, supporting modulus, tensile strength, and abrasion resistance.
Diatomite, Perlite & Lightweight
- Diatomaceous Earth — Works as a reinforcing functional filler in rubber compounds, adding bulk and contributing to the mechanical properties of the cured material.
Mica & Feldspar
- Muscovite Mica — Works as a platy functional filler in rubber compounds, reducing permeability and reinforcing the matrix while improving heat and chemical resistance.
- Feldspar — Works as a reinforcing filler in rubber, contributing hardness, heat resistance, and durability to the cured compound.
Silicas
- Precipitated Silica — Acts as a reinforcing filler in rubber compounds, building modulus, tear and abrasion resistance and, in highly dispersible grades, lowering rolling resistance and heat build-up.
- Fumed Silica — Acts as a reinforcing filler in silicone rubber such as HCR, RTV, and LSR, building mechanical strength while controlling flow and slump in the uncured compound.
Talc
- Microcrystalline Talc — Works as a platy functional filler in rubber compounds, reinforcing the matrix and reducing permeability while improving processing and acting as a dusting and parting aid.
- Macrocrystalline (Lamellar) Talc — Works as a lamellar functional filler in rubber compounds, reinforcing the matrix and reducing permeability while improving processing and acting as a dusting and parting aid.
Biocides & Preservatives
- Dry-Film Preservative — Protects finished rubber articles in service against fungal growth, staining, and microbial biodeterioration.
Building Blocks & Misc
- Polyethylene Glycol — Serves as a dispersion and cure activator for precipitated-silica-filled rubber compounds, improving silica wetting and restoring the cure system.
- Specialty Additive — Contributes a targeted specialty function in rubber formulations – refer to the individual product for its specific effect.
Cure, Dry & Film-Formation
- Polymerization Initiator & Accelerator — Crosslinks rubber and elastomer compounds through peroxide cure to build the cured network.
Dispersion & Surface-Control
- Wetting & Dispersing Additive — Promotes wetting and distribution of reinforcing fillers such as carbon black to support uniform compounding.
- Surfactant / Emulsifier — Serves as emulsifier in latex and emulsion rubber systems for stable compounding.
- Defoamer / De-aerator — Limits foam in latex compounding for more consistent processing and product quality.
Flame Retardants
- Flame Retardant Plasticizer — Softens rubber compounds to aid processing and flexibility while adding flame-retardant performance to the cured part.
- Flame Retardant — Compounded into rubber to reduce flammability and slow flame propagation while limiting smoke development in the cured part.
Silane Additives
- Surface Modification — Modifies surface characteristics and release behavior in rubber processing.
- Coupling Silane — Couples and crosslinks reinforcing fillers within the elastomer network, supporting reinforcement, modulus, and the cured mechanical properties.
- Surface-Modifying Silane — Treats mineral fillers to improve their dispersion and reduce moisture uptake in the elastomer compound, supporting consistent processing and properties.
- Adhesion Promoter Silane — Couples reinforcing fillers such as silica to the elastomer, improving filler dispersion, reinforcement, and the mechanical properties of the cured compound.
Waxes & Lubricants
- Metallic Stearate — Works as an anti-tack, dusting, and release agent and processing aid in rubber compounding and curing.
- Fischer-Tropsch Wax — Functions as a processing aid, lubricant, and release agent supporting flow and demolding in rubber compounding.
- Lubricant Wax — Functions as a processing aid, lubricant, and release agent supporting flow and demolding in rubber compounding.
Dispersions & Preparations
- Pigment Preparation — Disperses into natural rubber and synthetic elastomers as a free-flowing pigment preparation, giving vivid, well-dispersed non-black coloration.
Inorganic Pigments
- Iron Oxide Pigment — Colours rubber goods and elastomers as an insoluble inorganic iron-oxide pigment, giving weather-fast red, yellow, brown, and black shades.
- Titanium Dioxide Pigment — Whitens and opacifies rubber goods and elastomers as a white pigment, raising brightness and providing a base for tinted shades.
Organic Pigments
- Organic Pigment — Colours non-black rubber goods and elastomers as an insoluble organic pigment, giving vivid shades with good tinting strength.
Isocyanates, Prepolymers & Polyisocyanate Crosslinkers
- MDI Prepolymer — Acts as a one-component isocyanate binder that wets and bonds rubber granules into molded composite products with abrasion resistance and durability.
Methacrylate Monomers
- Methacrylate Monomer — Functions as a reactive comonomer and peroxide-cure coagent, with methacrylic acid forming metal methacrylate coagents that reinforce and crosslink the elastomer compound.
Silane Crosslinkers
- Polyfunctional Silane Crosslinker — Couples and crosslinks reinforcing fillers within the elastomer network, supporting reinforcement, modulus, and the cured mechanical properties.
Hydrocarbon Resins & Tackifiers
- Hydrocarbon Resin Tackifier — Acts as a tackifying and reinforcing process resin in rubber compounding for tires and rubber goods, improving building tack and processing.
Silicon-based & Inorganic Binders
- Silane Sol-Gel Binder — Couples reinforcing fillers such as silica to the elastomer, improving filler dispersion, reinforcement, and the mechanical properties of the cured compound.
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