Carbo NXT™ Silane

More About Carbo NXT™ Silane

Carbo NXT silane can generally provide the same  tire performance enhancements and system cost efficiencies as standard NXT* silane, such as reduced rolling resistance without significant loss of wet traction, coupled with production efficiencies that aregreater than those achieved with many standard sulfur silanes. When used in silica compounds, Carbo NXT silane typically enables improved silica dispersion, reduced viscosity and higher temperature mixing.   

Tire manufacturers like Carbo NXT silane because of its improved processing in silica compounds compared to standard sulfur silanes. Its blocked mercaptosilane functionality makes Carbo NXT silane more thermally stable, allowing for higher mixing temperatures with shorter mixing cycles, which tends to help the overall throughput of a given mixer, and  in turn, lead to areduction of waste. The plasticizing effect allows Carbo NXT silane to help reduce compound viscosity further than that typically attained with a  standard sulfur silane, leading to a reduction of total mix cycles.  The resulting lower compound viscosity can also positively affect downstream processes such as milling and extrusion. Carbo NXT silane-containing compounds also exhibit improved aged viscosity stability, allowing for a green compound to stay on the manufacturing floor with little to no viscosity increase.  

Key Features and Typical Benefits

• Fewer non-productive mixing steps
• Reduced compound viscosity
• Faster extrusion
• Improved Payne Effect
• Increased resilience
• Reduced tanD max
• Excellent dynamic properties at low temperature (-20 C to +10 C)

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*Carbo NXT and NXT are trademarks of Momentive Performance Materials Inc.