Polychloroprene Rubber (CR)/ Neoprene

Beyond the doubt, one of the best and most effective types of synthetic rubbers used in the world is synthetic Polychloroprene rubber or neoprene, which has been used in various industries for over 75 years and has proven its quality in all its diverse industrial applications.

 Surely Neoprene is one of the most widely used synthetic rubbers in the world today in many products and applications that are introduced with the DuPont Performance Elastomer brand and is a family of polychloroprene or CR rubber. In fact, polychloroprene is a polymer used in the production of synthetic rubber called synthetic rubber neoprene. In 1931, when neoprene synthetic rubber was developed and produced industrially and in large volumes, this type of rubber was supposed to be the first specialized elastomer.

 Currently, this type of synthetic rubber consumes more than 300,000 tons per year, making neoprene rubber the most important synthetic rubber in the world. In many respects, polychloroprene synthetic rubber can be matched to natural rubber, as this type of rubber has created a perfect balance between mechanical properties and fatigue strength, which previously existed only in natural rubber.

 This type of rubber resists well against many oils, chemicals and high temperatures. In addition, many general engineering applications use polyclopropane or neoprene rubber.

Neoprene Rubber Properties / Properties of Polychloroprene (CR)

Neoprene or Polychloroprene (CR) rubber is unique due to the balance of properties that it has among other synthetic rubbers, although it should not be considered solely as an advantage of this type of rubber on other synthetic rubbers.

 some other great features and characteristics that come with this type of rubber are:

• The mechanical strength of Polychloroprene rubber is incredibly high and very good.
• This type of rubber has a high resistance to weather conditions, as well as against ozone.
• One of the main features of this type of rubber is its excellent resistance to aging
• One of the special properties of neoprene synthetic rubbers is their very low flammability
• These types of rubber are good against chemicals.
• This type of synthetic rubber has high fuel and oil resistance
• Neoprene synthetic rubbers can be well used for many substrates due to their high adhesion to various substrates.
• These types of rubbers can be easily used in a variable temperature range because this kind of rubber can be vulcanized easily by using different accelerators
• This type of rubber can easily be used in a low temperature range because it helps to improve low temperature resistance and is better in terms of hardness and resistance at low temperatures than natural rubber.
• Polychloroprene Synthetic or Neoprene rubber can easily be used with mineral oils, dilute acids, greases and alkali types.

Types of Neoprene Synthetic Rubber Applications

As you explained and familiar with the properties of neoprene rubber, this type of rubber can be used in many applications. Although these rubbers can be said to be mainly used in the rubber industry, they can be widely used in the technical field as a whole.

This type of rubber plays a vital role in the adhesive industry based as a raw material which can be both, the solution and the water base. Polypropylene or neoprene synthetic rubber has a lot of latex applications, such as dipped articles like gloves and such as foam mold and improvement of bitumen.

This type of rubber is used extensively in molded goods, cables, transmission belts, conveyor belts, profiles, and so on.

Some types of products made of neoprene syntactic rubber

As described, neoprene syntactic rubber or polychloroprene rubber have many applications, and it can easily be concluded that this type of rubber can be used to produce many important rubber products and industry applications.

But perhaps some of the most commonly used products made with neoprene rubber are many of the following:

• Types of Industrial Gaskets
• Very different kinds of rubber gloves
• Various types of rubber sheets
• Many rubber straps
• Some rubber braces on the market
• Much of the rubber Wrap
• most types of rubber knees