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 processing aids, including silicone rubbers, high-temperature resistant silicone resins and silicone fluids, and silica powders. They allow reliable and cost-effective productions in accordance with the international regulations such as UL 94, IEC, ISO, ROHS and ANSI.

TERRA offers specific textile finishing agents based on the most innovative functional silicone fluids. They are ideal to improve both mechanical and optical qualities of polyester fiberfill and nonwoven textiles and yarns.

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.

To provide an effective foam control TERRA offers a versatile range of antifoams and defoamers. Formulated as silicone oil based, fatty alcohol based, polyether (ester) based, minreal oil based and vegetable oil based foam control systems, TERRAFOAM® serie antifoams and defoamers are ideal to control foam formation that occurs during the production processes, or during the consumption of the products. 

They are effective in the most challenging environments, help to enhance productivity, minimize environmental impacts, and reduce costs while improving the processing performance and final product quality considerably.

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 emulions for Polyester surface treatment, and for finishing applications for Polyester Fiberfill nnd nonwoven textiles.

TERRASOFT® OPE serie Silicone Fluid Emulsions are ideal to impart a permanent elasticity, to increase mechanical strenghts, and to enhance the surface quality of the polyester fiberfills. In addition, they may impart specific features such as friction resistance, rebound resilience, high comb performance, antistatic effect and water repellency.

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.

To produce polyurethane parts by making resin casting applivcations with silicone molds, TERRA offers a wide range of processing aids including pourable RTV-2 silicone rubbers, silicone release emulsions for mold removal and silicone fluids. They are ideal to obtain long-term durable and cost-effective silicone molds suitable for whether small or large in size, deep and complex shaped polyurethane articles.

SILASTOSIL® M serie RTV-2 Silicone Rubber is ideal for producing economic and long-lasting silicone molds resistant to polyurethane resins, and well suitable for deep and complex shaped polyurethane products, 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.

TERRA is one of the leading solutions providers for silicone based textile softeners and antifoams used for fabric finishing. The comprehensive range consists of intregrated solutions which improve the functionalities, the finishing properties and the appearance of the textiles as desired. In addition, they have high cost-optimization potentials, help to reduce consumption of finishing agents and minimize the negative environmental effects of the finisghing processes, and thus contribute to the Sustainability.

TERRACOAT® serie Liquid Silicone Rubber for Textile Coating are specificly designed for making coating, anti-slip, water proofing and air permeability prevention applications on fabrics by various printing methods such as (silk) screen printing, injection printing, embossing, calendering or lamination.

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.

To impart buildings and construction chemicals water repellency and water proofing properties, TERRA offers specific solutions based on the most innovative silicone technologies.

Offered as water- or solvent-based alternatives TERRASIL® serie silicone emulsions ant other producessing auxiliaries help to form effective and permanent barrier against wear caused by water, salt, chlorine and alkalis and the formation of efflorescence on the surface, they provide long-term protection against damages caused by moisture, water and freeze-thaw cycle conditions.

TERRA offers a specific range of silicone based processing auxiliaries for providing electr,cal insulation and thermal conductivity in electrical and electronic parts.

Functional silicone fluids and flowable silicone rubbers for coating help to achieve optimal results in accordance with international regulations such as IEC, ANSI, US EPA, UL 94, ISO and CE.

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.