Market Information
The applications of rubber microcellular are very wide and their market
volume may not be easy to estimate. About 10% of footwear used microcellular
for making slipper, sandal, sole, mid-sole and outer-sole. If the
world footwear production is 12 billions pairs it is estimated that
1.2 billions of footwear used microcellular products. A significant
percentage of microcellular are used in lining and insulation. These
applications go into a wide verity of industries, such as automobile,
building, sport facilities, piping and electrical. With the expansion
of these industries the volume of applications of microcellular will
also increased. The advantage of microcellular is that a single product
can be sometime used in many applications.
Testing
Since the applications of the products are mainly static and severe
test requirements rarely required. Some of the test required for microcellular
are as follows:
- Density
- Hardness
- Compression set
- Abrasion (for Sole)
- Rebound resilience
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