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News Release from: Hiawatha Rubber Company | Subject: Class 100,000 clean room facility
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 04 June 2007
Clean room facility produces cleaning
rollers
Hiawatha Rubber's Class 100,000 clean room facility allows cleaning rollers to be custom designed for medical imaging systems and packaging equipment.
Hiawatha Rubber has released a new Class 100,000 clean room facility for manufacturing cleaning rollers from very small up to 406mm long and 127mm in diameter Sticky or tacky surfaces are custom made to meet each particular application requirement
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 9 Jul 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Hiawatha Rubber designs and manufactures components for a industries including agriculture, hydraulic and pneumatic, high-pressure cleaning, and medical diagnostic and imaging devices.
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Close tolerance moulded rubber and silicone components and bonded rollers requiring special formulations and surface finishes are available for medical systems requiring rubber rollers and assemblies.
These cleaning rollers are custom designed for medical imaging systems, packaging equipment, and automated systems used in the manufacture of printed circuit boards, credit cards and photographic film.
Helping to ensure production of a quality product, they remove dust and particulate at critical locations in automated systems.
By preventing buildup of contaminants, these cleaning rollers facilitate longer system operation.
OEM system designers will find Hiawatha Rubber offers a wide range of cleaning roller options to meet their design needs.
The degree of roller tackiness can be specified from sticky to moderately sticky for different applications.
Various size roller hubs and materials can be used as well as specific outside hub diameters with defined run-out tolerances.
Any length from 25.4 to 406m with diameters up to 127mm can be specified.
To facilitate ordering and timely delivery, Hiawatha Rubber offers material formulation chemistry, CAD design tooling, injection transfer moulding, CNC grinding and CNC machining of these cleaning rollers in both small and large quantities.
In addition to cleaning rollers, Hiawatha Rubber also specialises in custom close tolerance, precision ground roller assemblies.
Manufacturing of these rollers can include services such as bearing assembly, plastic or metal gears, drilling and tapping components, precision journal grinding, plastic-to-rubber bonding, metal-to-rubber bonding, and segmented roller assembly.
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