Companies sourcing a reliable supplier of sporting gloves are currently limited by manufacturing technology. Conventional production of liquid silicon rubber is expensive. Production costs increase significantly when high quality is required, making the end product too expensive for the regular market.
Taiwanese company General Silicones (GS) reinvents mass production with silicone rubber with the introduction of Compo-SiL technology. GS, a major distributor, and manufacturer of silicone rubber materials create and ships Compo-SiL silicone rubber sheets with a thin layer made of modified polyurethane (PU). This modification allows for applying silicone rubber to gloves through standard roll-to-roll and heat press treatment. Using established adhesives like PUR (polyurethane reactive) and HMA (hot-melt adhesives), the glove textile adheres to the PU layer of Compo-SiL.
Other advantages of Compo-SiL include design flexibility by enabling the use of standard printing technology on the PU layer; durability (after applying the printed Compo-SiL rubber to the glove base material, the inward-facing printed PU layer is protected from mechanical stress, water, and UV radiation by the silicone top layer. Silicone is known to protect from UV and environmental damage), and reduce cost by adding colours/shades with a single print. Compo-SiL allows direct high-quality digital printing, increasing the production speed at lower expenses.