Leather Finishing
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.
Electronic Potting & Encapsulation
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.
Polyester Nonwoven & Fiberfill Finishing, Yarn Manufacturing
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.
Silicone Molding & Mold Making
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.
Glass Fiber Reinforcement & Surface Modification
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.
Mold Release in Casting
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.
Rubber Extrusion
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.
Foam Control
For foam control TERRA offers a wide range of antifoams including silicone fluids, silicone emulsions, silicone compounds and powders. They help prevent foam formation which occurs during manufacturing, or at the end use.
They provide effective foam control in the most challenging environments, help to enhance productivity, improve final product quality, minimize environmental impacts, and reduce costs.
Metals & Non-ferrous Metals Die Casting
For molding and die casting made with metals and non-ferrous metals, TERRA offers tailor-made solutions that provide smooth running processes and superior quality productions.
Release and mold release silicone emulsions, functional silicone resins and silicone fluids, and other processing aids guarantee high productivity, enhance the optical and physical qualities of the molded part, and optimize the cost of processing.
Polyester Fiber & Fiberfill Finish
For Polyester fiber coating as well as for finishing applications for fiberfill and nonwoven textiles, TERRA offers value-adding, innovative and efficient solutions.
TERRASOFT® OPE line silicone emulsions are developed to provide desired surface properties as well as to improve mechanical strengths of the polyester fiberfill. In addition, they may impart specific features such as friction resistance, rebound resilience, high comb performance and water repellency.
Polyurethane Foam Molding
In polyurethane foam molding applications, 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- or solvent based systems.
TERRASIL® line silicone emulsions guarantee desired surface qualities, increase productivity, and provide smooth-running processes with optimal cost-effectiveness. In addition, they contribute to the Sustainability.
Polyurethane Resin Casting
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.
Polyester Resin Casting
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.
Solutions for Polyester Gelcoat
For polyester gelcoat applications as well as for composite manufacturing made with unsaturated polyester resin and fiber-fiber reinforced plastic, TERRA offers specific processing aids. Nano particle size silica powders help to readily obtain desired surface qualities and mechanical strengths.
Solutions for Casting & Injection Molding
TERRA offers silicone based release agents for mold release in casting and injection molding made with plastics, rubbers and elastomers, and lowmelting non-ferrous metals such as aluminum, copper and zinc. They assure optimal results in terms of design flexibility, surface quality and mechanical property of the molded part, and productivity.
Solid Silicone Rubber (HTV) Compression Molding
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.
Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) Injection Molding
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.
Solid Silicone Rubber (HTV) Injection Molding
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.
Solid Silicone Rubber (HTV) Extrusion
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.
Bonding Solutions for Silicone Rubbers
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.
Pad Printing
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.
Textile Finishing
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.
Textile Coating
Primarily for design or pattern printing applications, as well as to give the fabrics specific features such as non-slip, water impermeability, flame retardant and flame resistance, and for this purpose to make silicone printing applications on the fabrics,TERRA offers a special range of liquid silicone rubbers and complementary processing aids.
TERRACOAT® line Textile Coating Silicone Rubbers guarantee high quality printings in terms of both aesthetics and mechanical strengths. Being suitable for long-term contact with the skin and hygiene requirements, they can be used safely in all fields, from clothing and home textiles to electrical cables and fiberglass knitted fabrics.
Web Offset Printing
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.
Water Repellency in Building & Construction Chemicals
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.
Electrical Insulation & Thermal Conductivity
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.
Lubricants & Antifriction Agents
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.