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SIGMA Engineering and Momentive Performance Materials agree on a strategic partnership. The aim of the cooperation is to optimize material data for silicone elastomers in order to make process simulation even more reliable.

Standardized laboratory values are not sufficient for defining the material laws in order to describe the complex behavior. The lack of consideration of process parameters during processing has not yet been a component of conventional material data. This will change in the future with the aim of improving the reliability of the simulation results and the material data. 

Thomas Klein, Managing Director of SIGMA Engineering, is delighted about the partnership and the goals behind it: "Partnerships are formed to create something greater together and offer added value to the market."

"We are very much looking forward to working together with SIGMA Engineering," says Holger Albrecht, Vice President and Head of the Elastomer Business Unit at Momentive. "The more precise the material data in LSR processing, the more accurate the simulation can be. This is certainly an advantage for companies in the silicone processing industry - because there is potential for far-reaching optimizations in the manufacturing process."

You can find more information in the actual press release