Applications

TERRA offers a comprehensive range of silicone-based raw materials, processing aids and ready-to-use textile enhancers to impart specific features to the leathers in terms of optical quality and technical features such as greasiness and softness, bulkiness, scratch and tear resistance, and water repellency.

For electronic potting and encapsulation, TERRA offers a comprehensive range of silicone-based processing aids. RTV-2 and LSR type liquid silicone rubbers, heat resistant silicone fluids and silicone resins, nano-particle silica powders and other processing aids provide reliable and cost-effective productions in accordance with UL 94, IEC, ANSI and ISO regulations.

For structural strengthening in polyester fiber, TERRA offers a specific range of silicone emulsions used in textile finishing applications. They improve both mechanical strenghts, and optical qualities of polyester fiber textiles, and impart very specific effects such as elasticity, softness and bulkiness, rebound resilience, easy comb and anti-static effects, and reduced water absorbency.

Will you make a silicone mold for chocolate or polyester sculpture? SILASTOSIL® M line room temperature curing silicone rubbers (RTV-2) are the best choices for making silicone molding and mold making applications at targeted qualities and costs.

For fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) applications and glass fiber surface modification TERRA offers a broad range of additives including coupling agents, crosslinkers and catalysts, and silicone resins and emulsions.

They are well suited for resin modification performed with unsaturated polyester, vinyl ester, epoxy and phenolic resins.

Silicone emulsions are well suited for demolding in casting applcations. They allow the substrate to be released quickly and smoothly from the mold without any damage.

TERRA offers both water- and solvent-based silicone emulsions for demolding. They are highly effective, enable smooth-running molding processes, and help to obtain required surface qualities wtihout affecting the physical properties molded parts.

TERRA offers a specific range of silicone emulsions formulated for rubber extrusion. TERRASIL® RA line Release Agents help to provide targeted features on the extruded rubber parts in terms of appeal, surface quality and durability. In addition, they help to minimize costs.

Defoamers and antifoam agents are used to control foam formation that occurs during the production processes, or during the consumption of the products. TERRA offers a versatile range of defoamer and antifoam agent based on different systems, including silicone oil, fatty alcohol, polyether (ester), minreal oil and vegetable oil.

TERRAFOAM® line foam control systems are effective in the most challenging environments, improve product qualities, increase productivities, help to minimize costs, and contribute to the Sustainability principles.

For the industries which produce light alloy parts and equipments by die casting and injection molding techniques, TERRA offers innovative solutions for easy demolding.

While they provide the targeted results in terms of surface quality and technical qualities in the final product, TERRASIL® serie Silicone Emulsions used as lubricant and release agent, increase productivity, reduce energy and labor costs, and help to contribute to the Sustainability targets wihout compromising cost-effectiveness.

TERRA offers a specific range of silicone fluid emulsions for surface treatment and finishing applications for Polyester Fiber, Polyester Fiber and nonwoven textiles.

TERRASOFT® OPE line Silicone Fluid Emulsion is a new-generated finishing agent developed specificly to impart elasticity, as well as to improve mechanical, thermal and chemical resistances, and surface quality of the polyester fiber and fiberfill. It is also ideal to provide specific properties such as friction resistance, rebound resilience, high comb performance, antistatic effect and reduced water absorbency.

For polyurethane elastomer molding, release agents for mold removal play a critical role in terms of surface quality of the final product and process efficiency. TERRA offers a specific range of silicone emulsions for mold release based on water- and solvent-based systems.

TERRASIL® serie Silicone Emulsions guarantee desired surface qualities, increase productivity, and provide smooth-running processes with optimal cost-effectiveness. In addition, they contribute to the Sustainability.

For polyurethane casting made with silicone molds, TERRA offers a specific range of process aids including liquid silicone rubbers (RTV-2) and release agents. SILASTOSIL® M line RTV-2 Silicone Rubber for Molding & Mold Making is ideal for producing long lasting and durable silicone molds resistant to polyurethane resin. It is well suited for complex and shaped designs, whether in small or large sizes.

For producing silicone molds used for polyester resin casting applications, TERRA offers a wide comprehensive range of processing aids. SILASTOSIL® M line RTV-2 silicone rubbers for molding and mold making and TERRASIL® line silicone release emulsions for mold removal are ideal to obtain long-term durable, easy-to-stretch silicone molds at optimal costs.

For gelcoat applications made with polyester fiber as well as for the manufacture of composite parts made with unsaturated polyester resin and fiber-fiber reinforced plastics, TERRA offers a specific range of synthetic, hydrophobic, amorphous silica produced via flame hydrolysis. They help to achieve targeted results in terms of surface quality, durability and lifetime.

TERRA offers a versatile range of processing aids used as release agent for demolding in thermal molding applications made with plastics, rubbers and elastomers, and lowmelting non-ferrous metals. TERRASIL® serie silicone emulsionf assure optimal results in terms of design flexibility, surface quality and mechanical property of the molded part, and productivity.

Specializing in raw materials used for silicone rubber compression molding, TERRA offers a comprehensive range which consists of HTV high-temperature-vulcanizing silicone rubber compounds (known also as HCR heat cure silicone rubbers), and additives and processing aids such as silicone pigment pastes, peroxides and platinum catalysts, silica powders, primers and bonding agents, and release and mould release agents.

Our innovative solutions help manufacturers achieve their goals in terms of productivity, optical quality and technical performances of the final product, and cost optimization.

Specialized in raw materials used for liquid silicone rubber (LSR) injection molding, TERRA offers a broad range of raw materials and addtives, including high-purity, two-component platinum-cured liquid silicone rubbers (LSR), liquid silicone pigment pastes, primers and bonding agents, and other processing aids. They are ideal for producing technical parts, where strength, resistance and high quality are a must.

TERRA offers comprehensive solutions for injection molding applications realized with high consistency silicone rubbers (HCR). They support manufacturers to achieve their goals in terms of productivity, optical quality and technical performances of the final product, and cost optimization.

For silicone rubber extrusion, TERRA offers a comprehensive range, including high consistency and high temperature vulcanizing silicone rubbers (HCR, HTV), and also additives and processing aids such as colorants for silicone rubbers (pigment pastes), catalysts, primers and bonding agents, performance enhancing additives, silica powders, release and mould release agents, and many others.

We offer a special range of adhesives and primers for bonding silicone rubber parts to each other or to other substrates.

These silicone polymer-based adhesives, which are used during curing or for bonding the cured silicone material, provide strong and long-lasting adhesion on various substrates such as plastics and rubbers, composites, silicone rubber, glass, ceramic, metal, aluminum and wood.

For producing silicone printing pads, TERRA offers a specific range of processing aids, including liquid silicone rubbers (RTV-2), polydimethylsiloxane silicone fluids and other complementary additives such as liquid pigment pastes and silica powders.

As a leading solution provider for silicone based textile auxiliaries used for textile finishing, TERRA offers integrated and tailor-made solutions that enhance touch effects, performance and appearance ot the fibres and fabrics considering their end usage requirements.

TERRA offers a specific range of flowable silicone rubbers designed for making coating applications on fabrics made of natural and synthetic fibres.

TERRACOAT® line Liquid Silicone Rubber for Textile Coating are well suited for (silk) screen printing, injection printing, embossing, calendering or lamination. It can meet every need in terms of visual effect, mechanical, chemical end thermal resistancies, elasticity and durability, anti-slip, waterproof, flame resistance and airtightness.

TERRA offers silicone based raw materials for manufacturing printing materials such as printing ink, inkjet and toner, and also silicone emulsions for polish and release used for heat set web offset printing. They improve not only the printing quality, but also provide high productivity and cost-effectiveness considering the principles of Sustainability.

For providing water insulation and water repellency in buildings and construction materials, TERRA offers a specific range of silicone based process aids.

TERRASIL® WR line Silicone Emulsion and TERRASIL® SILANE line Silane are ideal for water repellent impregnation applications, as well as for formulating construction materials of water repellent properties.

Silicones are ideal materials to provide an effective and long-term protection in electrics and electronics. TERRA offers a specific range of silicone based process aids that assure an effective protection and improve thermal conductivity. These innovative solutions enable electrical parts and electronic to work more effectively and with higher performance, and guarantee longer service life.

TERRA offers a comprehensive and innovative range of siilcone-based lubricants and antifriction agents for a number of high-tech industries ranging from aerospace to robotic systems.

Methyl and phenylmethyyl silicone fluids and silicone emulsions stand out with their outstanding stablities that do not change even under the most challenging conditions, low yield points, compressive strength, high heat resistance and heat transfer capabilities.

TERRA offers a specific range of defoamer and antfoam agent used for foam control in textile finishing and sizing processes. TERRAFOAM® line foam control systems are offered in two types, silicone-based or silicone-free alternatives.

TERRAFOAM® is well suited for preventing foam formation encountered in every stage such as bleaching, dyeing, finishing, printing, sizing and water treatment. It is also used for the formulation of other textile auxiliaries, including textile softeners and finishing agents, printing inks, dyestuffs and laundry detergents.