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Tech-Key Rubber Co., Ltd. specializes in silicone overmolding on metal, combining rigid metal components with flexible silicone to create integrated parts with functional, protective, and ergonomic characteristics.
Our Silicone Overmolding on Metal with Curved Surface – Single Color demonstrates the integration of a metal insert with a smooth, three-dimensional silicone exterior. This manufacturing concept is suitable for customized products requiring the structural characteristics of metal together with the flexibility and design freedom of silicone.
With more than 60 years of rubber and silicone manufacturing experience in Taiwan, Tech-Key Rubber provides customized OEM and ODM silicone manufacturing solutions, including silicone-covered metal products, multi-color silicone molding, curved surface molding, precision micro injection, and silicone surface processing.
Silicone overmolding on metal is a multi-material manufacturing process in which a metal component or insert is combined with silicone to form an integrated component.
The metal portion can provide structural support and rigidity, while the silicone exterior provides a softer and more flexible surface.
A simple way to understand the concept is:
Metal provides the structure. Silicone provides the functional outer surface.
Depending on the product design, this combination can be used to create gripping areas, protective surfaces, ergonomic contact zones, decorative elements, or customized functional components.
For OEM customers, the advantage is the ability to combine the properties of two different materials within one product design.
The key feature of this product is not simply that silicone covers metal.
Its distinguishing feature is the three-dimensional curved silicone surface.
Producing silicone around a curved or irregular metal structure requires consideration of several manufacturing factors, including:
The final process should therefore be developed according to the customer's actual component design and performance requirements.
Tech-Key Rubber's experience with curved-surface silicone products allows customers to explore more sophisticated product designs than conventional flat or basic overmolded components. The company's current product range specifically includes silicone-covered metal and curved-surface technologies.
Not every product requires multiple colors or complex decorative effects.
For many industrial and commercial applications, a single-color silicone overmolded surface offers a clean, consistent, and professional appearance.
Customers can develop the silicone color according to product requirements and brand design, subject to material and manufacturing feasibility.
Single-color silicone overmolding is particularly suitable for products where the priority is:
Functionality • Clean Appearance • Structural Integration • Product Identification • Consistent Production
Compared with a complex multi-color design, single-color molding can also be an appropriate choice for components where visual simplicity and functional performance are more important than decorative effects.
One of the main reasons for using silicone overmolding is the opportunity to combine different material characteristics.
The metal insert can provide the structural foundation required by the component.
Silicone provides a flexible exterior that can be designed around the metal structure.
Curved silicone surfaces can be designed for areas that come into contact with hands, equipment, or other components.
Depending on the product structure and silicone formulation, the silicone layer may provide cushioning or protective characteristics for selected areas.
Color, shape, surface texture, and curved geometry can be developed according to OEM product requirements.
This makes silicone overmolding useful for product developers who need more than a conventional single-material component.
A customized silicone-over-metal project generally begins with the customer's product requirements rather than a standard catalog specification.
Customers can provide a 2D drawing, 3D model, existing sample, or product concept.
Tech-Key Rubber can evaluate the component geometry, silicone coverage area, metal insert, dimensions, colors, and other project requirements.
The appropriate silicone material is selected according to the intended application, hardness, flexibility, appearance, and other required characteristics.
The metal substrate is also evaluated according to the customer's design.
Tooling is developed around the geometry of both the metal insert and silicone portion.
Curved surfaces require careful mold engineering to achieve the intended shape and appearance.
The metal component is positioned and integrated with silicone according to the validated manufacturing process.
Depending on product requirements, subsequent processes such as trimming, deburring, surface finishing, or coating can be evaluated.
Tech-Key Rubber's equipment capabilities extend from silicone material mixing and color preparation through thermoplastic processing, special deburring, and silicone spray coating.
Finished components are inspected according to the agreed specifications before packaging and shipment.
Silicone overmolding can be adapted to different product designs and industries.
Customized silicone-covered components can be considered for electronic accessories, portable devices, protective components, and related products.
Metal provides structural characteristics while silicone can create a functional outer surface for customized equipment components.
Silicone-overmolded metal can be evaluated for customized protective parts, accessories, handles, interfaces, and other components according to application requirements.
Curved silicone surfaces are useful where ergonomic shape, touch, appearance, and structural integration are important.
Silicone-overmolded structures can also be adapted for customized accessories and branded components.
Tech-Key currently identifies applications across 3C electronics, industrial products, automotive/motorcycle components, household products, apparel, sports products, and promotional products.
Tech-Key Rubber provides customized OEM and ODM silicone product development rather than limiting customers to standard off-the-shelf products.
For a new silicone-overmolding project, customers are encouraged to provide:
2D / 3D Drawings
Product Dimensions
Metal Material
Silicone Material Requirements
Hardness Requirements
Color Requirements
Surface Requirements
Application
Estimated Order Quantity
Reference Sample, if available
These details allow the manufacturing team to evaluate the appropriate material, mold structure, production process, and product feasibility.
Tech-Key's broader manufacturing capabilities include material mixing and color formulation, molding, micro injection, deburring, silicone spray coating, surface finishing, inspection, and OEM/ODM production.
With more than 60 years of manufacturing experience in Taiwan, Tech-Key Rubber has developed specialized capabilities for silicone products requiring more sophisticated geometry and material integration.
Our capabilities include:
Silicone Overmolding on Metal
3D Curved Surface Silicone Molding
Single-Color Silicone Molding
Multi-Color Silicone Molding
Color Gradient Surface Design
Raised Multi-Color Lettering
Precision Micro Injection
Silicone Spray Coating
OEM / ODM Product Development
Instead of viewing silicone overmolding as simply “putting rubber around metal,” we approach each project as an integrated combination of material, structure, mold design, surface geometry, appearance, and manufacturability.
It is a manufacturing approach that combines a metal insert or component with a molded silicone portion to create an integrated multi-material part.
Curved and three-dimensional structures can be evaluated. Feasibility depends on component geometry, silicone coverage, metal design, mold structure, material, and performance requirements.
Custom color requirements can be evaluated according to the selected silicone material, product design, and production requirements.
Yes. Tech-Key identifies OEM and ODM product development as part of its current silicone manufacturing services.
Providing drawings, dimensions, metal material, silicone requirements, hardness, color, application, estimated quantity, and reference samples will help the team evaluate your project more efficiently.
Whether your project requires a simple single-color silicone-covered metal component or a more sophisticated design incorporating 3D curved surfaces, multi-color molding, color gradients, raised lettering, or micro injection, Tech-Key Rubber can work with your team to evaluate a suitable manufacturing solution.
Send us your drawing, sample, or product concept to discuss your custom silicone overmolding project.
