Nolato is one of the world’s leading polymer developers and manufacturers. Based in Sweden, the company has a strong presence across North America, Europe and Asia. Since 1938, the company has grown immensely and today has nearly 7,000 employees. Nolato has become a go-to polymer partner across a wide variety of industries, including medicine, aerospace, consumer electronics, automotive and telecommunications.
It’s safe to say that Nolato’s silicone rubber and other gasket materials are among the most popular and highest quality available today. That’s precisely why Modus Advanced routinely uses Nolato gasket form-in-place (FIP) materials to create highly functional, cost-effective and perfectly engineered FIP gaskets for our customers.
In this post, the Modus Advanced team will walk you through the FIP gasket materials Nolato offers, including EMI shielding gasket options like the TriShield gasket. We’re here to partner with you as you bring your design from concept to physical reality, and part of that partnership involves recommending the best FIP gasket materials available today. Let’s take a look.
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About Nolato TriShield®
Nolato has trademarked the name TriShield for its patented, silicone rubber, narrow-dispensed gaskets. These Nolato form-in-place gasket materials contain a conductive filler metal that makes them highly effective electromagnetic interference (EMI) shields.
These triangular, narrow gaskets all use silicone rubber as the base material, but their filler materials differ. Filler materials in Nolato TriShield FIP gaskets include nickel graphite and silver nickel. To produce a TriShield FIP gasket, a manufacturer must secure a license from Nolato.
This material usage is also stable in harsh environments, with operating temperatures that range from -55°C to +125°C. The FIP gasket material offers solid mechanical properties on top of excellent EMI shielding capabilities, due in part to the patented triangular shape.
One of the most common uses of Nolato TriShield 8817 is for FIP gaskets in mobile phone base stations. The excellent shielding and mechanical properties of this material make a Nolato gasket ideal for a wide variety of telecommunications applications, among many other industries. Due to the material’s lack of more expensive filler materials like silver, it is usually quite affordable.
Nolato TriShield 8800 contains a silver nickel filler and a silicone rubber base. Despite the material’s use of silver as a filler material, it remains affordable for most projects, particularly as an alternative to mass-produced gaskets meant for use on plated aluminum and other metallic casings and housings.
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Dispensing and Curing Nolato Form-in-Place Gasket Materials
Nolato TriShield 8817, Nolato TriShield 8800, Nolato TriShield 8812, Nolato TriShield 8813, Nolato TriShield 8700 and Nolato TriShield 8710 are all recommended for compression of between 10% and 50%.
The low viscosity of these materials means virtually any FIP gasket dispensing machine will have short cycle times. These two-component gasket material compounds are dispensed as beads directly onto the housing or component they are meant to adhere to.
All of these FIP gaskets are typically 0.8 to 2.0 millimeters in height with a width-to-height ratio of <1, with the exception of Nolato TriShield 8817. This FIP gasket material is typically 1.0 to 2.0 mm in height.
Nolato’s FIP gasket materials are all heat-cured in hot-air ovens for 30 minutes to an hour. Curing temperatures range from 100 to 150°C. Heat curing allows the Modus Advanced team to avoid silicone bleeding and provide better compression set, quality control and feedback and lead times.
High-Quality FIP Gaskets Made with Nolato Materials
Quality is a big deal at Modus Advanced. We hold ourselves to the highest possible standards, and we expect the same commitment to quality from the manufacturers whose materials we use. Nolato’s FIP gasket materials rise to that challenge.
If you’re interested in working with a high-quality manufacturer who uses only the highest-quality materials, you’re interested in working with Modus. Contact us today by calling (925) 960-8700 or reaching out online.
