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NR/EPDM blends for extruded profile

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Mohamed Aris bin Ahmad (1)

Ridha Arizal (2)
Stuart Cook (3)

1. Rubber Research Institute of Malay sia, , Malay sia

2. Bogor Research Station for Rubber Technology , , Indonesia
3. Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre, MRPRA, , UK

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Abstract

The seals for automotiv e windows, doors, lights, etc. may all be considered as
weatherstrip or weatherseals. The production of weather strip usually inv olv es the
extrusion of a complex shaped profile with precisely defined dimensions (see Figure
17 .1). Rubber has for many y ears been used for sealing purposes in a v ehicle; it is
flexible and resilient and can be extruded relativ ely easily . In the early 197 0s,
automotiv e weatherstrip was made from a single poly mer rubber, mainly natural
rubber (NR) which has excellent resilience, but relativ ely poor weathering
resistance. Howev er, other elastomers including sty rene-butadiene rubber (SBR),
poly chloroprene (CR) and ethy lene-propy lene-diene monomer rubber (EPDM) were
also used [1]. Towards the end of the 197 0s EPDM had become dominant primarily
because of its superior weathering and ozone resistance coupled with its high filler
acceptance and wide processing latitude. Analy sis [2] of a recent, medium-sized,
high sales v olume v ehicle has shown that more than 66% of the non-ty re rubber
used in the car is based on EPDM of which some 7 5% is EPDM weatherstrip of some
form. This compares with about 12% of the non-ty re rubber in a car being NR.

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