Winners / 2023

SILASTIC™ MS-5002 Moldable Silicone

By: Dow
Gold

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Award Category: Materials Science

Award Sub-Category: Sustainability

SILASTIC™ MS-5002 is the first optical grade liquid silicone rubber that greatly reduces mold fouling and cycle time during injection molding. This decreases maintenance while increasing quality and throughput of optically clear components used in automotive adaptive driving beam lenses to enable vehicle light weighting and improve safety.

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