Optical-Grade LSR: AR Glasses and Headlamp Lenses
Where optical silicone is genuinely optical, the three product families ramping now, five moulding difficulties, and when glass or resin stays the right answer.
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Changes outside the workshop, translated into material, process and validation decisions you can act on.
Industry articles
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Down to 0.2 mm: Thin-Wall Silicone and Micro Structures
Thin walls are harder to mould: fill resistance, venting and tearing decide yield, and tool precision matters more than compound grade.
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Self-Lubricating LSR vs Sprayed Silicone Oil
Replacing an operator-dependent spray with controlled release: the window, four applications, four cases to avoid, six validation items.
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Can You Drop the Primer? Self-Bonding LSR
Why self-bonding LSR removes primer and bake, which substrates convert, three cases not to convert, and how to validate failure modes.
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Direct Purchase or Advisory Supply Chain: How to Choose
The same drawing, two responsibility chains: who signs, who carries quality and lead time, who owns the process route — six questions and four situations.
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Silicone won't go brittle: why flash removal can't copy rubber
Cryogenic trimming works on NBR and EPDM but not on silicone: tear-trim design, four post-processing routes and a written flash standard.
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Silicone's second process: coatings, plasma, laser texture
Feel coatings, plasma activation, laser texturing and mould texture: what each solves, where durability ends, and five acceptance tests.
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