Shoe soles

Especially the stringent requirements on sport shoes demand for rubber mixtures tailor made for the practiced end application. Marking soles based on the use of Carbon Black as rubber filler are nearly vanished from the market. Particularly in light colored soles of sport shoes with highest requirements on abrasion resistance the use of the silica silane system as sole reinforcing filler has become state-of-the-art. Depending on type of ground and load different rubber compounds has to be applied requiring different types of silanes. To get here the best possible properties Evonik offers a broad portfolio of rubber silanes to the shoe sole market.