Technology for Obtaining Foamed Rubber and Latest Technological Trends

Foamed rubber is now widely used in a variety of technological applications. First, the text explains the general outline of technology for obtaining foamed rubber such as the choice of blowing agents, the balance a cure crosslinking reaction and a blowing agent decomposition reactions, and the mechanism of foamed rubber. Second, the text explains manufacture technology of weather-strip sponge which is the typical sponge product of EPDM. Finally, the text introduces the latest technology for contributing to the cost-reduction of foamed rubber, the safety sanitation and the performance improvement such as the high-cure crosslinking reaction-EPDM, the EPDM alloy and EPDM by hydrosilylation.