What's the difference between solid and liquid silicone product?

What's the difference between solid and liquid silicone product?

  As we all know, silicone material is widely used in market because of  its great features like it won't release something harmful,  touch softly, high temperature resistance and low temperature good physical and chemical properties
  There are 2 types of silicone material, solid silicone and liquid silicone. The solid silicone product is made by heating pressing, while the liquid silicone product is made by dispensing it with dispensing machine and then dry it to shape.Compare to solid silicone product, the liquid one needs higher cost in equipment and the material, but it has other advantages like faster productionspeed, low processing and less waste material, which will be a leading tendency  in future in automatic production industry.
  There are the difference between solid silicone and solid silicone:  
  1. Performance:
    The liquid silicone material is liquid and has flow  Performance. and is also food-grade material with high transparency and high security. The solid silicone is also a transparent environment-friendly material without flow  Performance.
  2.  Filed of use:
    Because the liquid silicone can contact food and body directly so they are mainly used in baby product, kitchen product and medical product etc.
    The solid silicone is used in Daily necessities product, industrial spare parts and other spare parts installed for car, has wider scale.
  3. making process:
    Liquid silicone is injection molded liquid silicone rubber (LSR): the full name is injection molding liquid silicone rubber, and the vulcanization equipment is injection molding machine.
   The injection molding machine has a very simple process . The workers need is to take the product. All manual procedures are replaced by machines before molding), It can be molded in a few seconds at a certain temperature, saving people, saving electricity, and saving materials. 
    However the solid silicone product has more processes, the specific process is following.
  a. refine the solid silicone: mix the material with color paste, vulcanizing agent and other agent to make the color you need and catalytic it.
  b. cutting: cutting it to proper piece according to the size and depth of the mold, in order to reduce waste during production.
  c. put the finished cutting material into mold and heat pressing it to shape.

  In a word, the silicone product will have a great prospect in future, both the solid silicone product and liquid silicone product