RUBBER PROCESSING
MANAGEMENT, L.L.C.
History
The
company was founded in 1994 by an engineer wanting to go out on his own and
specialize in quality productive rubber processing. RUBBER
PROCESSING MANAGEMENT, L.L.C.
is a company taking rubber product procurement into
the future. The company has
over twenty years of rubber processing knowledge and thinks outside the box as a full service to their customers.
What We Do
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Quality and Productivity Improvements
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Low Cost Rubber Product Procurement
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Prototyping
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Processing
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Tooling
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Compounding
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Bonding
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Automotive EPDM Weatherstripping
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Training Technical Personnel
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Contacting Us
Quality and Productivity Improvements
The company adopts a
philosophy that there is one and only one best way to maintain quality and
productivity. We focus on the
material and the process and follow Deming principles.
After that we continually try to improve and reduce variation and
costs, which can only be achieved by removal of special causes of trouble.
We quickly solve problems. Our outside knowledge of rubber processing, rubber properties and rubber compounds, allows us to appraise the project and specify how to meet customer expectations, reduce costs, and maintain process control. The economics and lean manufacturing in today’s global rubber industry has reduced the number of qualified personnel to assist major companies and their tier suppliers. We supply qualified engineering and compounding expertise to companies and their tier suppliers needing fast troubleshooting to save money and eliminate problems.
Low
Cost Rubber Products Procurement
The company sees a
competitive trend where procurement is based on quality, delivery and low
price. Each rubber product has
its place to be manufactured for the good of the customer and the product.
Rubber Processing Management, L.L.C., works with Asian ISO 9002 and QS
9000 suppliers that are diamonds in the rough.
Some are backward integrated, with in-house tool making and internal
banbury mixing. Their timing is
fast with low pricing and manufactured-in quality.
At the same time, we recognize when and where products should be
developed and manufactured, and use stateside manufacturing when applicable.
We are not a broker,
but assist in responsibility for quality, packaging and on time delivery until
it reaches your dock. In many
cases we can significantly lower your total cost of procurement and raise your
performance standards while setting up JIT inventory controls or KANBAN
requirements delivered from multiple strategic warehouse locations per your
needs.
Our product line
expertise ranges from medical valves to thin walled diaphragms to bonded parts
to thick molded articles to EPDM automotive OEM weatherstripping.
Prototyping
Our
lab is equipped to mold prototypes per your or our design.
We support design for manufacture and assembly and mix the right
compound to meet your material requirements.
Prototype samples are quickly provided, as is production pricing to
assist in your planning.
Processing
Some
companies still process in the dark ages – and although they have years of
experience, we believe these companies are not leading edge suppliers.
The rubber processing industry
has enhanced our imagination in how to process rubber products from the
simplest of parts to the most difficult.
Each product is unique and requires certain processing parameters
dependent on the material, dimensions and tolerances and annual usage.
Requirements and innovations in rubber processing ranging from how to
productively mix rubber to how it is molded (or extruded), de-molded and
finished are all important and open to cost reductions.
We take it from cradle to grave in ways that you cannot imagine.
Tooling
Each
molded product requires specific molding techniques based on its processing
requirements. We design or
work with tool designers on specific details that make molding efficient for
the operator such as: specific tool steels, material delivery to the cavities,
removing trapped air and part and flash removal.
Our expertise is in compression molding, hot and cold transfer molding
and injection molding, with a focus on hot and cold runner or hot and cold
transfer injection molding. Our
scrap-less techniques of molding reduce raw material preparation and labor
costs, decrease cycle times and significantly reduce scrap.
We have reduced direct manufacturing and material costs by up to 40%.
Compounding
Rubber
compounding is not black art to us. It
is technical. We work with most
all polymers, such as butadiene, butyl and modified butyl, carboxylated
nitrile and nitrile butadiene, HNBR, chloroprene, epichlorohydrin, ethylene
propylene terpolymers and copolymers, fluorocarbon, fluorosilicone,
chlorosulfonated polyethylene, chlorinated polyethylene, isoprene, natural
rubber, polyacrylate, modified polyacrylate, polysulfide, millable gum
urethane, silicone, and styrene butadiene.
We blend polymers or make materials conductive.
Our understanding of material specifications includes SAE and ASTM line
call-outs, Military Specifications, FDA, NSF, and WRC.
We compound to meet your requirements and do not over compensate with
high cost materials when lower cost materials do the job.
Physical and dynamic property requirements mean to us that we meet them
and keep them within statistical control.
We know how to meet LEV II and PZEV regulations for emission regulations
and temperatures, fluid aging and surface COF
requirements and know the chemical ingredients to use and those not to use.
Bonding
Applications
using rubber bonded to various metals and/or plastics requires more thought
– from the compound used to the precision tooling.
We offer technical assistance from an initial idea to supplying you
with production parts meeting the strictest specifications and bond strengths.
The synergy we have from our compounding knowledge, bonding cement
understanding, insert preparation know-how and mold design gives us an edge in
the difficult field of mold bonding.
Automotive EPDM Weatherstripping
Rubber
Processing Management has been involved in automotive original equipment
weatherstrip design and manufacturing for the past 14 years. The company specializes in EPDM compounding, profile
extruding, corner and detail molds/molding and coatings used for appearance
and performance requirements. Our
outside knowledge in this field of one of the most difficult rubber product
lines to design and manufacture can benefit those companies requiring
consultation and needing to improve bottom line costs.
Training
Technical Personnel
Too
often, workers - including engineers and compounders, have learned their jobs
from someone who was never properly trained.
They are forced to follow pointless instructions or sometimes do not
even know what their jobs are. They
are in the dark and the company suffers as a team.
We see this and help break the barriers between management and workers
to institute proper training and understandable knowledge in our field of
expertise, which will only come from the outside, from RUBBER
PROCESSING MANAGEMENT, L.L.C.
Contacting Us
We
look forward to hearing from you.
Larry
Strauss, President, Rubber Processing Management, L.L.C.
127 W. Ridgeway Dr. · Centerville, OH 45459 · 937 434-6093 · Fax 937 434-6127 · www.rubberman.com