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DATE: 15th-AUGUST-2018 Choosing an elastomer for a new design or application can be overwhelming due to the wide range of materials available on the market today. We at Jehbco are often asked to help consult our customers on what elastomer...

DATE: 25th-JULY-2018 At Jehbco, research is constantly carried out to understand the behaviour of silicone rubber and its properties under various conditions to achieve control over the entire product lifecycle. Silicone rubber is a viscoelastic amorphous polymer w...

DATE: 20th-JUNE-2018 Room temperature vulcanising (RTV) silicone sealants are a popular and versatile joining material frequently used in the construction industry.  These ready-to-use silicones cure at room temperature by reacting with moisture in the atmosphere,...

At Jehbco, we ensure that every product is of the highest quality before being sent to our customers. Raw silicone must be fed through a roller mill to mix in any extra additives or colouring, but insufficient mixing can lead...

Jehbco’s Silicone has a number of excellent properties, making it a good choice for many applications.  Jehbco has many years of experience designing and manufacturing parts for a wide range of applications, from aircraft parts to food and medical tubing....

O-Rings are an extremely common and effective seal, consisting of a rubber ring with a circular profile, which is pressed into a rectangular groove or gland.  Most applications can use a standard, off-the-shelf o-ring, but for those special applications that...

Silicone rubber is well known for its durability at high temperatures. While other polymers such as nitrile, polyacrylate, and polyurethane have maximum service temperatures of around 70-150oC, silicone can withstand operating environments around 200-250oC. However...

At Jehbco, we manufacture our products exclusively from pure silicone. Silicone is a type of polymer known as an “elastomer” – these polymers are stretchy or elastic. For many applications, it is not quite clear which elastomer is the best...

In the silicone industry, a wide variety of coatings are implemented to enhance the physical properties of silicone products. There are many benefits of using chemical coatings, which include, but are not limited to: increased chemical resistance, decreased coeffic...

Silicone is a versatile material with excellent properties.  As such, silicone is a valuable material in many industries, and Jehbco manufactures silicone extrusions for a range of applications.  One key application area is rail transport. Trains are complicated ...

When designing your next product, there are a myriad of elastomer materials to choose from.  Jehbco manufactures all our products from 100% silicone.  Is silicone the right elastomer for your application?  In this article, we’ll explore the differences between...

An important part of the silicone manufacturing process is the kind of catalyst used to create the product. During production, a catalyst is added to make the silicone cure, which hardens and sets the final product. Typically, a peroxide catalyst...

Jehbco manufactures custom silicone extrusions in our Sydney-based factory, carrying out all steps in-house, from product design and development to die cutting, material preparation and manufacture.  This gives us fine grained control over the properties and quali...

Jehbco manufactures products from 100% silicone.  Often, there are a range of materials to choose from for your application – is Jehbco’s silicone the right one? In this article, we’ll explore the differences between silicone and one of its competitors...

Jehbco manufactures custom engineered silicone extrusions to suit your application’s requirements.  Our engineers take every effort to ensure that our silicone’s properties match your application perfectly. An important property of silicone is the coefficient ...

Wherever liquids and gasses are encountered in machinery and construction, mechanical seals are required.  Jehbco produces custom silicone mechanical seals for a variety of applications.  Mechanical seals prevent fluids (liquids and gasses) entering between two p...

Jehbco’s pure silicone extrusions are used in a wide range of applications, from aircraft seals to sea water piping gaskets.  These applications present a wide range of operating conditions that our silicone must work under, and Jehbco works with our...

Seals are used to prevent the ingress of fluid or particles in a wide range of mechanical applications.  Applications vary from traffic light enclosures to hydraulic mining equipment, fluids range from seawater to DOT brake fluid and pressures range from...

Providing a unique balance of the chemical and mechanical properties required by many of today’s more demanding industrial requirements; Silicone Rubber continues to excel in many applications from architecture to healthcare. “Blooming” refers to the milky di...

Silicone rubber has an outstanding reputation for being a reliable, durable construction material with a higher melting point and ignition point than other common polymers such as PP and PVC. These properties make silicone an excellent choice of material for...

Jehbco’s silicone extrusions are used in a wide range of applications, from aircraft seals to medical grade tubing.  To make sure you have the right silicone for your application, the application requirements have to be closely matched to the silicone...

Jehbco’s extruded silicone products are used in a multitude of application areas, and we have a range of silicone grades to suit every application.   When selecting a silicone grade for your application, it is essential to determine the tear...

Friction is the force opposing movement when two materials make contact.  Knowledge of friction is essential for many of our customers’ applications: it determines forces in moving systems such as O’Rings seals, it describes the ability of a seal to...

Waterproofing is fundamental in construction.  Buildings are designed to give shelter – this means keeping wind and water out.  The most difficult and important job of cladding and roofing is to prevent water entering the building.  Jehbco produce sealing prod...

Silicone’s excellent properties and versatile nature make it a valuable material in aviation.  Silicone is able to operate under a wide range of conditions and Jehbco produces customised mixes of 100% silicone materials to meet varied specialised design requirem...

It’s normally not that hard to stick different material together, but when sticking silicone extrusions to different substrates, the only thing that can stick to silicone is almost always silicone. This is where we often find non-silicone based adhesives fail.......

Low temperature applications are common in industries like: pharmaceutical, food production, brewing, chemical, refrigeration, automotive, petroleum, textile, electronics and aerospace. Low temperature performance is one of the most overlooked properties in seal pe...

Stabilizers are used to maintain the polymer’s appearance, strength, toughness and flexibility, so as in keeping the performance of the polymer’s existing attributes. Whereas for construction products made of polyvinyl chloride, heat stabilizers are commonly ...

In order to achieve effective printing on plastic substrates, corona surface treatment is essential. The printing industry continues to seek for reliability and flexibility with corona treatment.  Applications that don’t frequently change and without down-time b...

Vacuum Tubing is a non-braced forced out construction of silicone rubber. Generally used in the following applications: virtually any non-pressured or vacuum application and vacuum connections where elevated temperatures or maximum working conditions occur. And bei...

Silicone Rubber can be enhanced to meet many applications. Silicone has been aggravated to have good tensile and tear strength, moderate solvent resistance; excellent heat resistance; low compression set; good release characteristics; extreme low temperature proper...

It’s normally not that hard to stick different material together, but when sticking silicone extrusions to different substrates, the only thing that can stick to silicone is almost always silicone. This is where we often find non-silicone based adhesives fail.......

Silicone extrusions are popular products when it comes to applications where outgassing is an important factor. This includes sealing applications in the lighting equipment, laboratory controlled chambers and incubators or even building of aircrafts. On this articl...

Food we find is one of those very important, yet often not talked about areas in the media – until there is some kind of scare or outbreak of something that is newsworthy. This fortunately does not happen too often...

It is generally known that silicones have better performance against various factors compared to other elastomers being silicones as widely used and trusted material in different applications. And yet one of the few of its limitations being an effective material......

Gaskets are a key seal used in anything from engines, to buildings to complex engineering systems. As we ‘live and breathe’ Silicone Elastomers 24 hours per day, 7 days per week – we keep an eye on parameters and properties...

This post details information about solid silicone rubber shelf life in comparison with other types of polymers. Solid Silicone Rubber Solid silicone rubber has a shelf life of 20 years and beyond when in proper storage depending on the grade....

Ingress Protection, abbreviated as IP, generally composite a two digit number as specified in Australian Standard AS60529-2004. AS60529-2004 objective is to give the following: Degrees of protection definition as provided by enclosures of electrical equipment conce...

During the process of combustion on a particular phase of the fire cycle, flame retardants suppression happen. This can be either during ignition, heating, decomposition or flame spread. Most effective chemical action of flame retardants occur in two phases, first....

The factors that extremely influence the service life of the installed sealant are its durability properties that include but not limited to the adhesion of a sealant to specific substrates and its aging characteristics, to withstand among others ultra-violet radia...

Sanitary Hose Assemblies for Pharmaceutical Applications Sanitary hose generally involves in the systems of pharmaceutical process applications.  Be it portable tank hook ups, load cell isolators, CIP jumpers or any one of a dozen other applications, sanitary hose...

Strict compliance with the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations is necessary for any water fitting installation that will be carrying or receiving water supply from the public mains in Australia. Thereby, water fitting should not in any way contaminate the...

Jehbco pure silicones are rubber-like and typically heat-resistant; used variety of application such as medical, food, pharmaceutical for waterproofing or insulation for thermal and electrical. The silicone structure silicones, as otherwise known to chemists has a ...

Jebhco’s technology is known for one of the highest and most innovative seal and gasket manufacturers in Australia. We do not only manufacture, supply and sell our products; we are also concerned in promoting safety awareness and practices. Jehbco is...

Great service includes safety precautions. In Forty years of excellence in manufacturing, Jehbco has something that not everyone can offer. It is something that will allow us to be aware that not even the biggest buildings or establishments are safe...

Jehbco Silicones products are inorganic synthetic elastomers made from a %100 pure crosslinked silicone polymer which offers a unique combination of chemical and mechanical resistance that other elastomers cannot match. 100% pure silicon sealants have non-corrosive...

Jehbco gap seals are innovative, long-lasting, high-performance silicone extrusions designed to be installed with speed and ease making it as cost effective as possible. Jehbco seals suit gap sealing applications in different facade projects such as aluminium, comp...

Food we find is one of those very important, yet often not talked about areas in the media – until there is some kind of scare or outbreak of something that is newsworthy. This fortunately does not happen too often...

At Jehbco we have spent over 40 years manufacturing Pure Silicone for a range of applications. Food Processing, Construction, Medical & Defence are some of the key industries that often purchase Silicone for almost anything from Tubing to that of...

Jehbco Manufacturing are proud to be a part of the construction of a new polar bear enclosure at Sea World. On December the 26th 2000 Sea World, Gold Coast Australia, opened “Polar Bear Shores” which was built for the purpose...

From concept and design to completion, Jehbco played It’s part in the development of the light diffuser silicone extrusion. Barrisol Sydney, which was contracted by: ECHO Entertainment and Sqillance Nicholas Architects, approached Jehbco with this new concept, re...

“Black Saturday” was an event in History that changed the way we construct our houses in bushfire zones today. In February 2009, immediately following this terrible tragedy, legislation was reviewed (Ref – AS3959 –Standards Australia) to incorporate sil...

Almost 8 years ago, Jehbco was approached by Andrew Stuart from Equitronics to develop a conductive silicone part. What seemed to be a simple application, turned out to be a long but rewarding journey. After a number of modifications with...