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Fairchild Industries specializes in developing your quality rubber components, extruded rubber products and molded rubber goods. Our rubber extrusions are utilized in a variety of industries including: automotive, specialty vehicle and industrial. Competitive pricing & quick service. ISO certified.
Using Timco, you can access a wide variety of rubber extrusions, including custom extruded profiles in continuous lengths or cut to length, and intricate profile shapes. Timco’s extruded products come in a wide variety of compounds, and color-matching services are available.
Trim-lok is a Rubber Profile Extruder ISO/TS16949 certified & capable of taking a job from concept to delivery. Specializing continuous-length extrusion with 3M tapes, custom color, splicing, vulcanizing corners and any size tubing. We have extensive processing experience with EPDM, NPVC, Nitrile & Silicone.
Trim-Lok is the leading ISO/TS16949 certified manufacturer of push-on edge trim, trim-seal, EPDM seals. For 35 years we were the original company announcing advanced sealing technology with Trim-Seal with a UV resistant rubber seal & wear- resistant vinyl trim. Stocking parts that finish & protect.
GSH Industries provides custom extruded rubber components to a wide range of industries. We offer rubber extrusions in materials such as Neoprene, Viton®, Nitrile, Silicone and more. We have the tooling ability to create intricate profiles to ensure that your rubber goods are of the highest quality.
With superior service, Ebco® remains a leading manufacturer of high-quality, low-cost extruded rubber products. We extrude many types of rubber, including UL-approved. Our rubber extrusions specialty is custom profiles, plus we offer a standard selection of seals, hoses, pedal pads, etc.
ISO 9001 & AS9100 registered, Northwest Rubber Extruders manufactures such quality extruded rubber products as custom & conventional extrusion profiles of natural & synthetic rubber, thermoplastics and silicone, plus bumpers, cushions, gaskets, seals, tubing and more. In business for over 25 years!
If you need custom rubber extruded products with a fast turnaround, Britech Industries is the company you need to call. We do extruded, molded and die cut rubber—rubber grommets, bumpers, seals and gaskets, rectangles, squares and triangle sections in the colors and compounds you need.
West American Rubber is a leading nationwide manufacturer and distributor of high-quality rubber molded products like sheet rubber and extruded rubber. At West American Rubber we have provided the rubber industry with excellent products for over 90 years. Call us today for more information!
Dybrook Products is a manufacturer dedicated to the development and production of quality custom extruded rubber, molded rubber, rubber bumpers, extruded rubber tubing and more. We have been QS9000 certified since 1998. Contact us for all of your extruded rubber needs. Call or visit our website today!
Pawling Engineered Products is a leading manufacturer of high-quality custom extruded rubber, silicone and plastic profiles. Along with our Presray Pneuma-Seal line of inflatable seals, clamps and actuators, we offer Pneuma-Cel plug 'n play inflatable bladders and Pro-Tek marine fenders.
Rubber extrusions manufacturers use natural and synthetic
rubber materials to fabricate their products. Rubber is a common material
used in virtually every industrial application. Its resilience makes
it a particularly effective choice for applications involving shock absorption,
sealing and fluid transportation. Although different rubber processing
methods exist, rubber extrusions remain a popular choice for many manufacturers
because of the neat, uniform way extruded
rubber products can be produced.
A great variety of shapes can be created by rubber extrusions manufacturers
for any industrial need, including hollow designs that greatly reduce
material cost and create flexible, lightweight products. Rubber materials
are in great demand because of their resilience and flexibility, making
rubber extrusions and molded
rubber well-liked and effective ways to produce these rubber extrusions
materials.
During the rubber extrusions process, rubber material is processed through
an extruder. Rubber extruders consist of two main components: a small
heated drum and a die. Pre-heating of the material is optional, depending
on the result desired. As the material enters the drum, it is softened
through heating and then pressurized through the rotation of a screw.
The pressure pushes the rubber through the die, located at the end of
the extruder. The rubber then emerges from the extruder in a profile
resembling the die shape. As die design possibilities remain nearly limitless,
so does the number of possible rubber extrusions profiles. After being
extruded, the material is cured using various methods that include salt
bath, autoclave, convection, hot air, microwave and mandrel.
Rubber extrusions profiles are used in a wide variety of industries,
including the aerospace, automotive, lighting, appliance, electronics,
construction and medical industries. Basically, rubber extrusions can
be used anywhere, as it is a very versatile product. The following products
represent common rubber goods. Rubber manufacturers produce a wide variety
of rubber molded parts such as rubber
grommets, bellow, seals, weatherstripping,
sheeting, pads, boots, bumpers, tubes and bushings. In addition to these
common rubber goods, many manufacturers will fulfill customer requests
for custom extruded profiles so that everyone’s needs are covered.
Some common materials used by rubber extrusion manufacturers include
SBR, neoprene, silicone, EPDM, nitrile, santoprene, viton, natural rubber,
butyl, hypalon and timprene. Some important considerations when thinking
about rubber extrusions are whether the physical and mechanical properties
of the desired material are appropriate for the environment in which
it will be used. Such properties as tensile strength, hardness, aging,
flexibility, permeability and speed of recovery from deflection will
vary in different materials, and need to be weighed against the benefits
and weaknesses that will result from using such materials. Rubber’s
biggest competitor is plastic, but both continue to remain popular in
many industries.
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Types of Rubber Extrusions
Co-Extrusion is a variation of the basic extrusion
process, where two separate extruders connect to a single die and
two or more separate
batches of rubber material are mixed by separate screws, and then fed
into the die at the same time. This allows for the convergence of rubber
materials that contain different properties like color and consistency.
Cold feed extrusion involves performing the
extrusion process without pre-heating. This is best suited to produce
profiles, hoses, cable
and sheaths.
Extruded rubber is rubber that has been melted and forced into a die.
Hot feed extrusion involves pre-heating the
rubber material before performing the extrusion process.
Pin barrel extruders have a special design
with many pins protruding from the cylinder wall toward the screw's
center that enhance
the mixing and dispersing of the rubber as it is kneaded between the
screws and
the cylinder. This method can be applied to many rubber compound
formulations for diverse applications.
Rubber bushings are placed between moving parts to absorb vibration.
Rubber grommets are rubber rings inserted into a hole in sheet metal to protect cords or electrical wires from the abrasion.
Rubber sheeting is used for a variety of purposes including mats, lining, floor coverings, and stair treads.
Vented extruders have screws of an original
and unique design. This type is easy to maintain and occupies very
little floor space.
Weatherstripping is used to insulate a building to make heating and cooling more efficient.
Rubber Extrusions Terms
Accelerator – A substance that quickens the pace
of vulcanization and lowers the operating temperature required during
the process.
Adhesion – Term for the bond
between a rubber surface and a non-rubber surface.
Air Curing – Vulcanizing
a rubber product in the air instead of in a press or steam vulcanizer.
Atmospheric Cracking – Crevices that form on rubber surfaces due
to exposure to environmental conditions, such as temperature extremes
and precipitation.
Atmospheric Pressure – The
amount of force the atmosphere exerts upon the earth’s surface,
measuring 14.7 psi at sea level.
Chalking – The development of a powdery residue on a rubber surface
as a result of surface breakdown.
Checking – Small cracks on the surface of rubber, usually from
environmental damage.
Compression Set – A measurement of a rubber material’s return
to its initial shape after deformation.
Creep – Deformation on a rubber surface due to the application
of stress.
Die Swell – The incidence of swelling that occurs after the extruded
profile comes out of the die. The rubber product’s properties determine
the amount of swelling that will occur.
Drift – A change in a rubber material’s hardness over time.
Durometer – An apparatus used for measuring the hardness of rubber.
Dusting – Applying powder to rubber to prevent adhesion to something
else.
Elasticity – A characteristic of rubber, describing its tendency
to return to its initial shape after warping.
Elastomer – A material capable of returning to its initial length
after being stretched at room temperature to twice its original length.
Elongation – An increase in length after the application of stress.
This occurs during stretching.
Flex Test – A laboratory test that measures a rubber material’s
resistance to bending deformation.
Friction – The resistance to
motion when different surfaces are in contact.
Hysteresis – Energy loss in the form of heat that results from
the deformation of elastomeric material, caused by the application of
stress.
Mastication – The softening of raw rubber by mechanical and atmospheric
forces.
Memory – The extent of a rubber material’s ability to resume
its original shape after deformation.
Modulus – The amount of stress required to create a certain amount
of elongation.
Optimum Cure – The point during vulcanization at which rubber material
attains the intended properties.
Plasticity – The degree to which rubber will retain deformation.
Psi – Pounds per square inch. This measurement indicates pressure
level.
Resilience – The comparison of the amount of energy needed to create
an elastic deformation, and the amount of energy needed to recover from
such a deformation.
Tensile Strength – The maximum amount of stress that may be applied
to rubber before breaking occurs.
Vulcanization – The process of increasing the strength and elasticity
of rubber materials through the application of heat and pressure.
