Rubber products are widely used in transportation, industrial manufacturing, agriculture, forestry, water conservancy, military defense, medical health, consumer goods and electronic technology. Its core uses include tires, industrial seals, shock-absorbing materials and protective equipment.
The following is a classification description of specific application areas:
★ Transportation Field:
Tires are the main use of rubber, accounting for more than 70% of global consumption, covering various types of transportation such as cars, trucks, and airplanes. For example: new tire technologies such as radial tires and tubeless tires are becoming more and more popular.
Other applications include shock-absorbing components (such as engine shock absorbers, railway springs), conveyor belts (such as subway passenger conveyor belts), ship seals and hovercraft, etc.
★ Industrial Manufacturing Field:
Tapes, hoses, sealing gaskets, etc. are used for material transportation in mining and metallurgical industries. For example, wear-resistant steel wire rope core conveyor belts can improve production efficiency.
Rubber linings replace metal materials (such as mining mill linings), extending service life by 2-4 times and reducing noise.
★ Agriculture, Forestry and Water Conservancy Field:
Agricultural machinery accessories (such as tractor rubber products up to 121 pieces/unit), rubber dams and anti-seepage layers for irrigation.
Combine harvester rubber tracks and rubber boats improve agricultural operation efficiency.
★ Military and National Defense Field:
Tanks, warships and other equipment consume a lot of rubber (for example, a 30,000-ton warship uses 68 tons), and protective equipment (such as chemical protective clothing and tents) also rely on rubber.
Special performance rubber (high temperature/low temperature resistance, corrosion resistance) is used in cutting-edge defense technology, such as spacecraft sealing materials.
★ Medical and Health Field:
Medical equipment such as medical gloves, catheters, and syringes rely on the elasticity and sterility of rubber, and demand has surged during the epidemic.
★ Consumer Goods Field:
Daily necessities such as rubber shoes, erasers, balloons, toys, etc., sports equipment (such as swimming goggles, fitness equipment accessories).
★ Electronic Technology Field:
Rubber is used as wire insulation layer, mobile phone waterproof seal in 5G equipment, for example, high temperature vulcanized silicone rubber accounts for nearly 40% of electronic appliances.
