The wide-spread applications of silicones in many industries from automobiles to electronics to solar panels help enhance existing materials and make new ones possible.
The use of silicones in industrial and consumer applications affords a range of useful product performance characteristics including facilitating products to last longer, providing flexibility or rigidity, and the ability to withstand extreme temperatures and humidity, thus reducing the resource and energy consumption of the products in which silicones are used. Silicones help make products more sustainable in several markets, including the transportation, electronics, energy, and consumer product sectors. The use of silicones in those application reduce CO2 emission through the life cycle compared with the alternative materials use.