Application/process uses and methods for thermosets include protective coating, seamless flooring, civil engineering construction grouts for jointing and injection, mortars, foundry sands, adhesives, sealants, castings, potting, electrical insulation, encapsulation, solid foams, wet lay-up laminating, pultrusion, gelcoats, filament winding, pre-pregs, and molding.
Specific methods of molding thermosets are:
* Reactive injection moulding (used for objects such as milk bottle crates)
* Extrusion molding (used for making pipes, threads of fabric and insulation for electrical cables)
* Compression molding (used to shape SMC and BMC thermosetting plastics)
* Spin casting (used for producing fishing lures and jigs, gaming miniatures, figurines, emblems as well as production and replacement parts)