Silicones

What Silicones does

Silicones, Inc. is a privately held, USA-based manufacturer of RTV-2 (room-temperature-vulcanized, two-component) silicone rubber, in continuous operation since its 1974 incorporation. The company operates from a 72,000 sq ft High Point, North Carolina campus comprising roughly 57,000 sq ft of manufacturing and warehouse space, 10,000 sq ft of Quality Control and R&D laboratory space, and 5,000 sq ft of administrative offices. Its product architecture is centered on five chemistry families: the standard condensation-cure GI-Series (tin-catalyzed) and its experimental counterpart XT-Series; the standard addition-cure P-Series (platinum-catalyzed), including FDA-grade P-FDA, and its experimental counterpart XP-Series; and the SI-Series of supplemental additives (thinners, primers, accelerators, release agents, thixotropic additives). All products share a 6-month shelf life and a uniform cure time of 16-24 hours, with 95% of standard formulations shipping within two days of order receipt. Differentiation rests on proprietary activators (GI-2020A, GI-800A, GI-179A, GI-1000AHT) that extend tin-cured mold library life from approximately one year to at least ten years and raise high-temperature resistance from approximately 350°F to approximately 450°F, plus non-thixo additive materials that avoid chemical thickeners.

The company sells both standard catalog products (GI- and P-Series, sold by the gallon or truckload) and bespoke custom RTV-2 silicone formulations developed by in-house chemists for specific customer requirements, with pricing quoted on application. Customers span eight primary segments: mold-making (foundries, taxidermists, sculptors, architectural casters); electronics potting and encapsulation; special effects, entertainment, and animatronics; medical and life sciences (plastination, imaging phantoms, prosthetics); prototyping and product design; architectural casters; aerospace composites (vacuum bagging, co-developed with an unnamed leading aerospace company); furniture; and defense. Distribution combines direct inside sales handled by Technical Sales Manager Myra A. Bumgardner (phone, email, contact form, toll-free 1-800-533-8709) with a 14-partner regional distributor network across the US Northeast, Mid-Atlantic/South, Midwest, West, and Eastern Canada (Quebec). No revenue is publicly disclosed; the firm is privately held with no parent company, no institutional investors, and no funding rounds on record.

Name

Silicones

Legal name

Silicones, Inc.

Website

https://silicones-inc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1974

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Silicones, Inc. is a privately held USA manufacturer founded in 1974 that produces standard and custom RTV-2 silicone rubbers (tin- and platinum-catalyzed) for mold-making, special effects, medical, aerospace, electronics, and defense customers via direct inside sales and a 14-partner US/Canada distributor network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

High Point

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices17 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Standard RTV-2 Silicone Product Sales: Bulk sale of standard catalog RTV-2 silicones (GI-Series tin-cured and P-Series platinum-cured), sold by the gallon or the truckload; 95% of standard formulations ship within two days of order receipt.
2. Custom Silicone Formulation Services: Custom RTV-2 silicone compound development performed by in-house chemists to meet specific application requirements, priced per quote and supported by flexible production scheduling.
3. Supplemental Products (Activators, Catalysts, Additives, Accessories): Sale of activators, thixotropic additives, thinners, primers, mold release (MR-15), paint systems, and DBTL/T.O. catalysts that complement the base RTV-2 product line.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Silicones, Inc. manufactures RTV-2 (Room Temperature Vulcanized, two-component) silicone rubber products at its facility in High Point, North Carolina, where the company has operated since 1974. Its product line spans condensation cure (tin-catalyzed) and addition cure (platinum-catalyzed) silicone systems, supplemented by custom silicone formulations developed for specific customer applications.

Product overview

Silicones, Inc. operates a single-product-architecture business centered on RTV-2 (room-temperature-vulcanized, two-component) silicone rubber, organized into five chemistry families that work together: the standard tin-catalyzed GI-Series and its experimental counterpart XT-Series (condensation cure), the standard platinum-catalyzed P-Series and its experimental counterpart XP-Series (addition cure), and the SI-Series of supplemental additives (thinners, primers, accelerators, release agents, thixotropic additives). Every catalog SKU — from low-viscosity casting grades like GI-1110 and P-90 to specialty products such as P-FDA, GI-177 A 5 Minute, XP-480 Gel, and P-588 Inhibit Stop — is built from this shared chemistry platform and can be further tailored through the company's custom formulation service. Application-specific offerings extend the platform into aerospace vacuum bagging (thixo and non-thixo grades) and fine-art foundry/sculptor tooling, with newer R&D efforts targeting animatronics and medical simulator skins.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• RTV-2 Condensation Cure (Tin-Catalyzed) Silicone Rubber
• RTV-2 Addition Cure (Platinum-Catalyzed) Silicone Rubber
• Custom Silicone Formulations

Quantifiable outcome

• Library life of tin-cured molds extended from approximately 1 year to at least 10 years using GI-2020A / GI-800A / GI-179A activators
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

18 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and flagship.

• APM Distribution (Oxford, CT)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor of Silicones, Inc. RTV-2 silicones for the Connecticut / Northeast US market. Contact: Mike Torres, 203.463.9404, [email protected].
• Anchor Seal, Inc. (Gloucester, MA)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor for the Massachusetts / Northeast US market. Contacts: Pete Spinney, Lynne Kutensky. 800.669.5217 / [email protected].
• Silicone & Epoxy Technology (West Babylon, NY)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor for the New York market. Contact: Nicole Viglietta, 631.920.5079, [email protected].
• The Compleat Sculptor (New York, NY)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWalk-in / pick-up distributor location in New York, NY, serving the sculptor/mold-maker community. 1.800.9.SCULPT.
• Exodus Trading (Orlando, FL)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor for the Florida market. Contacts: Calvin Aswell (Sales), Beth Aswell (Technical). 407.530.6071 / [email protected].
• Fox and Superfine (Fayetteville, GA)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor for the Greater Atlanta / Georgia market. 1.770.731.5230 / [email protected].
• Advanced Plastics (Nashville, TN)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor covering Tennessee and Alabama. Contact: Aaron Abner, Sales Manager. 1(800)321-0365 / [email protected].
• Thermoset Solutions (Flint, MI)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor covering Delaware, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Contact: Joel Charboneau, President. 1.800.775.3121 / [email protected].
• Blackhawk Specialty Products, Inc. (Rock Island, IL)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor for the Illinois market. Contact: April Fells. 309.788.0275 / [email protected].
• Sterling Supply, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor for the Minnesota market. Contact: Bryce Norelius. 612.331.5125 / [email protected].
• Circle K Products (Temecula, CA)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor for the California market. Contact: Sheryl Kunkle. 951.695.1955 / [email protected].
• Mike Sisbarro / MJS Associates (Littleton, CO)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor contact for the Colorado market. 303.748.8756 / [email protected].
• Composites and Casting Supply, Inc. (Auburn, WA)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized distributor for the Washington / Pacific Northwest market. Contact: Dave Irons. 800.618.1001 / [email protected].
• Produits Electrolation, Inc. (Laval, Quebec, Canada)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized Canadian distributor for Eastern Canada (Quebec). 450.972.6556 / [email protected].
• Animax Designs, Inc.flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner25-year co-development relationship. Silicones, Inc. (Myra and her team) worked with Animax's Lead Skin Technician Dave Nixon to develop and refine custom skin silicone formulations for animatronic characters. Materials supplied for 2014 IAAPA characters and ongoing 25th anniversary showcase.
• Unnamed leading aerospace companyflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-developed vacuum bagging silicones with Silicones, Inc., resulting in thixo and non-thixo versions with variable cure rates, designed for high physical properties and excellent release to maximize mold life and part reproduction in composite aerospace applications.
• University of Toledo Medical School (Dr. Carlos Baptista)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerAcademic / medical-education reference relationship. Dr. Carlos Baptista (successor to Dr. Robert Henry, DVM) is the public point of contact for Silicones, Inc. silicone-based plastination and biological preservation process.
• North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerFeatured academic user showcased in the company's Photo Galleries. Students and faculty use Silicones, Inc. silicones to create special-effects makeup, masks, wounds, and mutilated body part props.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Momentive Performance Materials: Momentive (formerly GE Silicones) offers a broad RTV-2 silicone portfolio including LIM, addition-cure, and tin-cure systems used in mold making, electronics, healthcare, and aerospace. Its global scale and regulatory depth make it a competitor on enterprise accounts rather than on the artisanal/specialty side.
• Dow (DOWSIL Silicones): Dow's DOWSIL portfolio is one of the world's largest silicone elastomer lines, covering RTV-2 mold-making grades, encapsulation/potting silicones for electronics, and FDA-grade medical silicones. It competes with Silicones, Inc. primarily in electronics potting, aerospace, and medical verticals where scale, global supply, and regulatory documentation outweigh custom formulation agility.
• Wacker Chemie (Wacker Silicones): Wacker's silicones division produces room-temperature-curing elastomers (ELASTOSIL) for mold making, electronics, medical, and automotive applications. As a global specialty silicone incumbent, it competes with Silicones, Inc. wherever buyers require multi-region supply or extensive regulatory documentation.
• Shin-Etsu Chemical (Silicone Division): Shin-Etsu is one of the world's largest silicone rubber producers, with KE-series RTV silicones used in mold making, electronics potting, and medical devices. It is an incumbent competitor in markets where Japanese or Asian-spec supply chains are preferred or required.

Direct peers

• Polytek Development Corp: Polytek manufactures platinum-cure and tin-cure liquid silicone rubbers, polyurethanes, and epoxies used in mold making, special effects, prototyping, and sculpture. Its RTV-2 silicone portfolio (e.g., Polygel) directly overlaps with Silicones, Inc.'s GI- and P-Series offerings and serves the same SMB and artisan customer base.
• Specialty Silicone Products (SSP): SSP is a US-based specialty silicone manufacturer producing custom RTV-2 silicones, conductive silicones, and FDA-grade medical silicones from a Ballston Spa, NY facility. Its custom formulation capability and US-made positioning closely mirror Silicones, Inc.'s value proposition in the medical, aerospace, and electronics potting verticals.
• Environmental Technology Inc (ETI): ETI manufactures room-temperature-vulcanizing silicone rubbers and casting compounds marketed under brands such as Equinox, Mold Rubber, and Skin Rubber. The product set and customer mix (foundries, sculptors, mold-makers, special-effects artists) overlap closely with Silicones, Inc.'s core mold-making and special-effects business.
• Silpak Inc: Silpak produces RTV silicone rubber and urethane casting materials primarily for the sculpture, foundry, and special-effects markets. It directly competes with Silicones, Inc. in fine-art bronze casting, life casting, and themed-environment reproduction work.
• Smooth-On: Smooth-On is one of the largest US manufacturers of rubbers, plastics, and specialty silicone compounds (including mold-making silicones and skin/special-effects silicones such as Dragon Skin, Ecoflex, and Mold Star). It competes directly with Silicones, Inc. across the mold-making, special effects, and prototyping verticals and offers a broader self-service digital commerce experience.
• BJB Enterprises: BJB Enterprises produces specialty silicones, polyurethanes, and epoxies for mold making, casting, and prototyping. The company targets similar artisan and industrial mold-making buyers with tin- and platinum-cure RTV-2 silicones and competes on custom formulation, making it a closely comparable peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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