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When it comes to real competence, what's needed is an expert. Because when developing customized solutions is a key issue, only the best partner  an provide qualified advice.

The claim to be this for every customer – competent, innovative and flexible – has made BIW the leading company for the production of highquality silicone and fibreglass hoses, profiles and seals.

BIW - Your Partner for Silicone and Glass-Fibre Technology.

We can help to solve your problems with our comprehensive know-how, which we have acquired from our own research and development. Our extensive range of modern machinery enables us to manufacture in-house a number of products in line with the most modern trends in technology.

Our starting point is a long standing experience in the development of compounds for the production of silicone rubber grades with extreme strength, which we have accumulated over many years. By compouding specific components into the base materials, we are able to obtain improved silicone mixtures in any colour with a wide range of hardness and with the most different chemical and physical properties. Our experience allows us to produce materials of high quality, which can be tailored to highly specific usages. This technology enables us to prepare mixtures for the manufacture of products with the following properties:

• Products that can withstand temperatures of above +300 °C for a short period of time without becoming brittle.
• Products that remain fully flexible and do not shatter at temperatures of less than -80 °C.
• There is no need to avoid products coming into contact with petrol or oil, as this only causes them to expand slightly.
• When carrying pressureless steam, the mechanical functioning of the products hardly diminishes, reflecting the liveliness of the silicone.

In special cases, already catalysed, but not yet vulcanised mixtures, tailored to customer needs, can be supplied together with the required processing instructions.

With our extruders we can process the synthetic rubber further at competitive prices in a continuous process and produce mouldings with our presses and injection moulding machines. Spacious postcuring ovens with constantly high levels of fresh air circulation allow the type of vulcanisation that guarantees the best possible stabilisation of the polymer chains.

In the field of glass fibre our own braiding department can offer a variety of threads of different thickness, different braid angles and different braiding constructions. We are also able to satisfy the most varied requests and demands for the treatment of glass fibre products before and after processing such as desizing and soaking as well as impregnating and coating.

The best examples of this are our silicone coated, highly flexible glass fibre sleeves, which possess distinctive stretching capabilities of the internal diameter but also restoring forces in case of compressing. This enables us to guarantee fast sleeving for production of cable harnesses and fitting of electrical connecting elements without problems.

In addition to this we are able to produce flame retardant, self-extinguishing grades for special applications. Re-rolling stations, stamping presses, chopping machines as well as special attachments, afford us the decisive advantage of supplying our customers with products tailored to the most suitable form for further processing without delay or problems.