Ethylene-Propylene is one of the best general-purpose synthetic rubbers. Polymerization and catalyst technologies in use today provide the ability to design polymers to meet specific and demanding application and processing needs.
EPDM rubbers are valuable for their excellent resistance to heat, oxidation, ozone and weather-aging due to their stable, saturated polymer backbone structure. Compression set resistance is good, particularly at high temperatures.
They have a good resistance to polar solvents such as water, acids, alkalis, phosphate ester and many ketones and alcohols.