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Rubber & Elastomers

Chemically resistant washers - Boker's Inc.

The washers and spacers come in a variety of materials, ODs, IDs, and thicknesses.

Ultrasoft medical elastomer - Teknor Apex

The elastomer comes in pellet form for injection molding.

Get Reliable Results From Rubber Test Data
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Rubbers’ large deformation, contact, and viscoelastic behaviors make getting test data to support a model even more important.

Elastomer keeps college racer hugging curves

A tiny elastomeric bearing seal was key to helping Jayhawk Motorsports, the racecar team from the University of Kansas (KU), build a formula-style racecar that handles easily.

Caster-oil -based polyurethanes

Lupranol Balance 50 is a polyol made from renewable castor oil.

Carbon-fiber stiffens CVT belts

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, is using carbon-fiber reinforcement to add stiffness across the width of their continuously variable transmission or CVT belts.

Vulcanized TPE seals the deal

Hong Yang Sealings in China, has developed its own coextrusion process for applying colorful weather-resistant topcoats on automotive door seals.

Car wash rolls on urethane elastomer

Solid urethane triples the life of rollers used in car-wash conveyor system at the Miracle Car Wash facility in Cranston, R.I.

Start here when simulating rubber and foams

Little-known features in FEA software convert test data into inputs for simulating hyperelastic materials.

Urethane prototypes work like PP

The ability to cast prototypes in polyurethane has led Rapid Prototype Co. to make air-intake manifolds and short-run parts in the material.

Where the smart rubber meets the road

Get ready. Tire-pressure-monitoring systems will soon be standard equipment in new vehicles.

Elastomeric elements

A line of Swiss elastomeric elements for improved tensioning, suspending, oscillating, and vibrating devices is available.

Specifying elastomer footpads

A line of Swiss elastomeric elements for improved tensioning, suspending, oscillating, and vibrating devices is available.

Elastomer Sealing Materials

A catalog details USP Class VI and FDA white-listed elastomer materials for medical sealing.

MPR Stretches Ahead

Melt-processible rubber matches rubber’s feel, durability, and boasts a lively color palette which can dress-up many applications