Rubber mouldings bond to metal

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Feb 28, 2007

Sealing, gripping and motion control are typical performance features of Rubber Industries' custom rubber mouldings bonded to metal components.

Sealing, gripping and motion control are typical performance features of Rubber Industries' custom rubber mouldings bonded to metal components.

Rubber Industries provides these performance features in prototype through large volume quantities using injection, transfer, compression molding and LIM (liquid injection moulding) processes.

Rubber Industries offers over 35 years experience bonding custom elastomer formulations to a broad range of substrates including aluminium, brass, steel, and plastic to suit customer design needs.

Its engineers understand the relationship between rubber elastomers, substrates, plastics and adhesives to determine the ideal process that results in a bonded assembly with cost-effective, high-performance features.

Rubber Industries offers a full range of custom formulated materials and hundreds of standard materials, to meet correct functional, environmental and colour requirements of the bonded assembly.

Virtually any application requirement can be met with this vast amount of formulations, including resistance to heat, cold, oil, gas and harsh chemicals.

Specific performance requirements such as hardness, fluid resistance, abrasion resistance, shrinkage, elongation, modulus and cost are addressed by Rubber Industries for specific rubber-to-metal and plastic bonding applications.

Rubber Industries has complete in-house capabilities for turnkey rubber-to-metal bonding including design assistance, tool design and building, prototype moulding, production moulding, deflashing, and packaging.

All Rubber Industries processes are optimised lead times which produce fast turnaround.