Rubber Lining

In many areas of production, in environmental protection or even in home, metal needs to be protected against corrosion. A sample way of doing this is to apply an anticorrosion point. In a large number of applications, through, the protection this provides is insufficient; higher- quality industrial materials are required.

There are basically two routes available:

1. The equipment items requiring protection can be fabricated entirely from a resistant material.
2. The mechanical strength of the equipment items is attained with a low cost material (steel) and the corrosion resistance is achieved with a lining made of suitable material, e.g. rubber.

Rubber lining are highly efficient. In combination with an appropriate base material usually steel they provide very reliable surface protection. They are a safe, trouble free and reliable means of combating corrosion and in special cases, abrasion.

In the field of rubber linings, two different forms of the material are essentially used:

1. Firstly, hard rubber / ebonite linings, i.e. highly cross-linked elastomers based on isoprene or styrene-butadiene rubbers. These linings are characterized by excellent diffusion resistance to highly diffusive corrosive media.
2. Secondly, soft rubber linings i.e. cross linked elastomers (usually butyl rubbers) with good diffusion resistance and good to very good chemical resistance to aggressive and corrosive chemicals.

The suitability of the lining material is determined by:

• Its resistance attack.
• Its bond with the steel (vulcanization of the rubber and the bonding system only occurs if the rubber sheet is applied in the unvulcanized state. This technology provides a bonding strength far superior to that of conventional adhesive bonding systems).
• Hard rubber or soft rubber is used depending on the conditions of the project.