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PPG Silica for the Footwear Industry

PPG Silica benefits

Durability
Flexibility
Stiffness
Hot tear resistance
Resilience

When it comes to the footwear, consumers demand attractive shoes that are constructed with the outmost quality and performance. PPG’s provides leading footwear manufacturers with reinforcing silica products, Hi-Sil™ and Ciptane™ silica, which offer increased abrasion and flex/crack growth resistance along with hot tear resistance in rubber footwear and shoe soles. Hi-Sil and Ciptane products are non-black reinforcing fillers that allow the formulator to produce either colored or translucent non-marking soles. Hi-Sil and Ciptane silica provides superior durability and resilience while improving compound stiffness and modulus for all types of rubber soled footwear.
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