RUBBER

Before Christopher Columbus visited the New World, Haitians were fire curing latex into spheres. Columbus took the proverbial rubber ball back to Europe in 1496, but it would it be nearly 350 years before Charles Goodyear discovered that the rubber could be vulcanized using sulfur and heat. If Goodyear put the bounce in rubber it was Roy Dunlop, in 1888, who put air in it to make pneumatic bicycle tires and it was not long before the elastomeric polymer was seen for its engineering design opportunities.

Today, we at Stern Industries continue in the Goodyear and Dunlop traditions of engineering innovation, helping you find solutions to your rubber design and manufacturing needs. Whether you, like Columbus, are just discovering rubber as an option in your application or have been designing rubber components for years, we can help. We understand the properties of the various compounds and processes to make quality parts at competitive prices. We are ready to assist you in your design decisions and to source rubber components that will to contribute to your success in a competitive business environment. Click for an extensive discussion of rubber processes.

See ASTM D2000 Rubber specs for more information.

Please click on the Rubber processes at the left to find out more about which rubber process may best suit your needs!