The difference between rubber industrial belts and polyurethane industrial belts:
1. Polyurethane and polyurethane rubber are the same thing. Because polyurethane has good resilience, it is often referred to as polyurethane rubber, also known as polyurethane elastomer.
2. Polyurethane is polymerized from polyester (or polyether) and diisocyanurate. Good wear resistance, followed by good elasticity, high hardness, oil resistance, solvent resistance. The disadvantage is poor heat aging resistance. Polyurethane rubber has the most applications in the automobile, shoemaking, and machinery industries. Whether polyurethane should be classified as plastic or rubber depends on the actual situation.

Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and other regions generally refer to plastics as plastics, so it is meaningless to strictly distinguish between plastics and rubber. From a theoretical point of view, to distinguish plastics and rubbers, it is generally to see whether the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the material is above or below normal temperature. Usually, the polymer material whose Tg is lower than normal temperature is called plastic (for example, polyethylene Tg is -78 degrees), and the polymer material whose Tg temperature is higher than normal temperature is called rubber.
 
Polyurethane is a very special polymer. It consists of hard segment and soft segment. The hard segment has a low Tg and has the characteristics of plastic. The soft segment has a Tg much higher than room temperature and has the characteristics of rubber. During the synthesis of polyurethane, by controlling the polymerization reaction, the ratio of the hard segment and the soft segment of the polymer can be adjusted, so that the polyurethane behaves as a plastic or rubber.




Polyurethane Timing Belt