We can see the use of grommet in our daily use products such as cable housings, jeans, boots, computers, etc. Grommet is designed to fit in a pre-cut hole. Everyone uses a product having a grommet but never notices or might not know about its workings. Grommet are commonly made out of plastic, rubber, steel, copper, and aluminum.

Grommet products are used in various applications, the best example of which can be cable housings. Electrical wires in metal equipment and machines run through the rubber grommet. A grommet is used as a protection against any damage to the cable in metal machines when a hole is made in the machines. If the grommet is not fixed in those places, the cable will remain exposed to the jagged edges of the holes, and if the cable runs through those jagged edges, there is a probability of it failing. A simple solution to all these is to fix the grommet inside the hole, which will help in covering the jagged edges and protecting them from any possible damages.

You will find grommet in regular items also, except machinery and electrical equipment, like boots, shoes, and various other footwear. Grommet products in footwear like shoes and boots are used in the shoelace hole to contain shoelaces. There may be one or more pairs of grommets in a pair of shoes according to the design.

Grommet products are sometimes used to give an aesthetic look to objects, such as clothes and footwear.

Computers and laptops contain one or more grommets. Hard Disk Drive in computers specifically has many grommets to minimize the vibration as the vibrations caused by HDD caused the premature failure.