NEOPRENE

Neoprene (CR), also called polychloroprene or chloroprene rubber, synthetic rubber produced by the polymerization (or linking together of single molecules into giant, multiple-unit molecules) of chloroprene.

• A good general-purpose rubber, neoprene is valued for its high tensile strength, resilience, oil and flame resistance, and resistance to degradation by oxygen and ozone; however, its high cost limits its use to special-properties applications.
• Industries that commonly use neoprene are: mass transit, wire and cable,food preparation, and construction industries.
• One of the first successful synthetic rubbers, poly chloroprene was first prepared in 1930 by Arnold Collins, an American chemist in Wallace Hume Carothers’s research group at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (now DuPont Company), while investigating by-products of divinylacetylene. DuPont marketed the material as Neoprene, a trademarked name that has since become generic.
• The durability in a standard operation of grinding,polishing and deburring is exceptional