Custom mixing, services.

The following directory lists custom services suppliers. The first part lists custom rubber mixers.

A directory of companies that offer various custom services to the rubber industry follows.

AC Products, Inc.
172 E. La Jolla St.
Placentia, CA 92670                                     [phone]
James Troska, V.P. R&D
Equipment: Five high speed dispersion
mixers and 10 low speed mixers
Mixing capabilities: All water based and
solvent soluble resins and polymers
Capacity: 1.2 million gals./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Acton International Inc.
881 Landry St.
Acton Vale, Quebec, Canada J0H 1A0
                                        [phone]; [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Website: www.airbossofamerica.com
Email: marcel.courtemanche@
airboss-acton.com

Marcel Courtemanche
Equipment: F-270 mixer, 3-D mixer, two
RMS extruders, Kobe extruder, 4-roll
calender
Services offered: Mixing and transformation
Mixing capabilities: 17 million kg/yr.
Capacity: 5 million kg
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Advanced Polymer Compounding
354 Old Bay Lane
Havre de Grace, MD 21078
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Wayne Norris
Equipment: 60" 3-roll calender, mixing
mills, extruder
Services offered: Calendering, custom
mixing, extruding
Mixing capabilities: All polymers except
silicone, black and non-black
Capacity: 2 million pounds per year
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

AirBoss Rubber Compounding
101 Glasgow St.
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2G 4X8
                                                        [phone]
                                                        [phone]
Website:
www.airbossrubbercompounding.com
Email: [e-mail]
John Tomins, V.P. sales & mktg.
Equipment: One K-7, one Skinner 3700,
three Skinner 268s, one HF GK320 and
one Farrel #11
Mixing capabilities: Custom rubber mixing
of most types of rubber
Capacity: 270 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Branch:
500 Airboss Parkway
Scotland Neck, NC 27874
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Brad Deal, plant manager
Equipment: one HF GK320
Mixing capabilities: Most elastomers
Capacity: 40 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
(see ad on page 63)

Akron Paint & Varnish Inc. (APV)
1390 Firestone Parkway
Akron, OH 44301                                         [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Michael Corichie
Equipment: 140 different grinding, mixing
and blending pieces of equipment
Mixing capabilities: Batch sizes from
1 gallon to 6,000 gallons, 50 CPS to
2,000,000
Services offered: Private label, packaging,
blending, manufacturing, specialty
engineered products
Capacity: 10 million gal.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Alloy Polymers, Inc.
3310 Deepwater Terminal Rd.
Richmond, VA 23234                                      [phone]
S. Pahuja, president
Equipment: Eleven lines--twin screw
high intensity mixers
Mixing capabilities: Specialize in engineering
polymers
Capacity: 83 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: no

American Biltrite (Canada) Ltd.
200 Bank St.
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada J1H 4K3
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Equipment: Two mixers, calender, roll-er-head
extruder, preformer
Mixing capabilities: Black and colors for
all elastomers except silicone
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Avon Custom Mixing Service
55 High St.
Holbrook, MA 02343
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Timothy E. Nestor, V.P.
Equipment: Two #11 and one 3A internal
mixer, several calenders, two roll mills
and one 8-1/2" x 42" roller die extruder
Mixing capabilities: All polymers, separate
facilities for mixing blacks to prevent
contamination of non-blacks and colors,
12" x 15" strainer/extruder on-line at non-black
mixer, mill mixing of small quantities
available
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Biltrite Industries
170 North Queen St.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M9C 1A8
                                        [phone]; [phone]
                                        [phone]; [phone]
Website: www.biltriteindustries.com
Email: [e-mail]
Katherine Calitzo
Equipment: Calenders, extruders, internal
mixers, mills, mixers and slitters
Services offered. Custom mixing, recipe
development
Mixing capabilities: NR, BR, SBR, IR,
CR, NBR, CIIR, IIR, EPDM
Capacity: 80 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Branch:
1300 Morrical Blvd.
Findlay, OH 45840                                       [phone]
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Website: www.biltriteindustries.com
Email: [e-mail]
Tonya Besse
Equipment: Calenders, extruders, internal
mixers, mills, mixers, slitters
Services offered. Custom mixing, recipe
development
Mixing capabilities: NR, BR, SBR, IR,
CR, NBR, CIIR, IIR, EPDM
Capacity: 60 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
(see ad on page 5)

Blair Rubber Co,
5020 Panther Parkway
Seville, OH 44273                                       [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Website: www.blairrubber.com
Email: sales @ blairrubber.com
David Jentzsch, general manager
Equipment: Internal mixer and open mill,
calendering, slitter, autoclaves
Mixing capabilities: NR, nitrile, EPDM,
polychloroprene, chlorobutyl, butyl, Hypalon,
SBR
Capacity: 6 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Britannia Rubber Mfg. Ltd.
1676 Britannia Rd. East
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4W 1J2
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Website: www.britanniarubber.com
Email: [e-mail]
Equipment: Mixer, 3-roll calender, mixing
mills, strip cooler/stacker
Mixing capabilities: 2.1 million lbs./year

Services offered: Custom mixing, calendering,
stripping
Capacity: 2.1 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Bruckman Rubber Co.
101 South St, Joseph Ave,
Hastings, NE 68901                                      [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Website: www.bruckmanrubber.com
Email: [e-mail]
Equipment: Tilt body dispersion mixer,
mills, extruders, roller head die, strip
cutters
Mixing capabilities: Silicone, SBR, EPDM,
FKM, nitrile, natural, polyisoprene, polynorbornene,
polychloroprene, etc.
Services offered: mixing (black and
white, colored), strip, slab, extrude
Capacity: 11 million lbs.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Burke Industries, Inc.
2250 South 10th St.
San Jose, CA 95112
                                                  [phone], x376
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Mike Moshfegh, sales mgr.
Equipment: #00, #3, #9 and #11 mixers,
48", 60" and 84" mills, 24", 36" and
66" calenders, preformer, 72" x 72" die
cutter, rewinders and slitters, 5' x 25'
autoclave
Mixing capabilities: All types
Capacity: 35-40 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Caterpillar, Inc.
100 NE Adams St.
Peoria, IL 61629-9310                                   [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Website: www.cat.com
Email: [e-mail]
Peter Fogarty
Equipment: 27D mixer
Mixing capabilities: NR and synthetics
Capacity: 100 M lbs.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Central Rubber Co.
844 E. Jackson St.
Belvidere, IL 61008                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Website: www.centralrubbercompany.
com
Al Maldonado
Services offered: Custom colored rubber
milled to customer specifications or ours
Mixing capabilities: All non-black custom
rubber compounds, with polymers used
--NR, SBR, polychloroprene, Hypalon,
nitrile, EPDM, silicone, butyl, urethane
and nitrile/pvc
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Nancy Souvey
Equipment: Mills, mixers, internal mixers,
extruders, Barwells, calenders
Mixing capabilities: Most elastomers
Services offered: Mixing, recipe development,
full processing and physical
testing
Capacity: 25 million lbs.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Cri-Sil Silicone Technologies, LLC
359 Hill St.
Biddeford, ME 04005-3949
                                        [phone]; [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Equipment: Sigma blade mixers, planetary
mixers, mills, extruders, calenders
Mixing capabilities: Silicone and fluorosilicone,
HCR and LSR, bases and
dispersions
Capacity: 16-18 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Cri-Tech Division
Immix Technologies, LLC
85 Winter St.
Hanover, MA 02339-2553
                                        [phone]; [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Website: www.immixtechnologies.com
Bob Berg, V.P./G.M.
Equipment: Three #3 mixers, two 84"
mills, two 60" mills, 40" mill, two refiners,
extruder 3-1/2"
Mixing capabilities: Fluoroelastomer
compounds, alloys, dispersions, HNBR
compounds, FDA grade elastomers
Capacity: 6 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Depco Inc.
20 Newton Place
Hauppauge, NY 11788-4752
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
David Bean, pres.
Equipment: Mills and mixers
Mixing capabilities: Exclusively silicone
Capacity: 1 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Dow Corning
Corporate Headquarters
2200 W. Salzburg Rd.
P.O. Box 994
Midland, MI 48686-0994
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Midwestern Region
U.S. 6 Hwy.--East
Kendallville, IN 46755                                  [phone]
Dave Jurkiewicz, gen. mgr.
Equipment: Mills, extruders, dough mixers,
development lab
Mixing capabilities: Silicones, fluorosilicones,
color masterbatches
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Western Region
20832 Currier Rd.
Walnut, CA 91789                                        [phone]
Sandra Cuellar, technical manager
Equipment: Mills, extruders, dough mixers,
full lab
Mixing capabilities: Silicones, fluorosilicones,
color masterbatches
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Dyna-Mix, Inc.
P.O. Box 369
Country Club Rd.
Grafton, WV 26354                                       [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Website: www.dyna-mix.com
Email: [e-mail]
Dave Mohr, contact
Branch
P.O. Box 4726
S. Lyons St.
Tyler, TX 75712                                         [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
David Minick, mgr. manufacturing services
Grafton Equipment: One 270 6-wing
rotor, one 270 4-wing rotor and two #11
internal mixers; variable speed mixers
and dual mill take offs: straining, rubber
granulating and barwelling
Services offered: Custom mixed rubber
(black and color), all polymers except
silicone, granulating, straining and preforming
capabilities
Mixing capabilities: All general purpose
polymers
Capacity: 120 million lbs.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
Tyler Equipment: One 270 4-wing, variable
speed mixer and dual mill take off
Services offered: Custom mixed rubber
(black and color), all polymers except
silicone
Mixing capabilities: All general purpose
polymers
Capacity: 30 million lbs.

Eagle Elastomer, Inc.
70 Cuyahoga Falls Industrial Pkwy.
Peninsula, OH 44264
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                       Website: www.eagleelastomer.com
                                      Email: [e-mail]
Regan McHale, president; Neil McHale,
v.p. of operations; Liam McHale, sales,
custom mixing div.
Equipment: Internal mixer, mills, extruders,
autoclaves and curing oven
Mixing capabilities: 100 lb. batches of
fluoroelastomer compounds
Capacity: 1 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
(see ad on page 66)

Eaton Corporation
860 Blankenship Rd.
Newbern, AK 38059                                       [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                                Website: www.eaton.com
                                      Email: [e-mail]
Douglas Fortman
Equipment: Various
Mixing capabilities: NR, EPDM, SBR,
NBR, CR, CSM, ECO, BR, IR, HNBR,
EPM, XNBR
Services offered: Custom mixing
Capacity: 74 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Excel Polymers LLC
World Headquarters
6521 Davis Ind. Pkwy.
Solon, OH 44139                                         [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                       Website: www.excel-polymers.com
Equipment: Mixers, internal mixers, variable
mills, calenders, extruders
Mixing capabilities: Custom formulations,
full development and testing labs,
straining pelletization, all elastomers
including FKM, color and black mixing,
chemical dispersions, color master-batches,
pre-weighs, Chase Elastomer
roll compounds
Tech service: yes
Recipe development yes

Excel Polymers LLC--Automotive
28175 Haggerty Rd.
Novi, MI 48377                                          [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Manufacturing facilities:
14330 Kinsman Rd.
Burton, OH 44021                                        [phone]
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
P.O. Box 377
Jonesborough, TN 38659
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
8311 Sorenson Ave.
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
150 S. Connell Ave.
Dyersburg, TN 38024                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
635 Tower Dr.
Kennedale, TX 76060                                     [phone]
                                                    Fax: [phone]
EXLP Global (Mexico)
S.A. de C.V.; and EXLP Global Services
S.A. de Division of Excel Polymers LLC
LaNoria 115
Parque Industrial Queretaro
C.P. 76220, Santa Rosa Jauregui
Qeuretaro, Mexico
                                                 (011) 52 442-211-3500
                                            Fax: [phone]
EXPL Global (UK), Ltd.
Division of Excel Polymers LLC
Unit E303--Warmco Industrial Estate
Manchester Rd.
Mossley, Lancashire U.K. OL5 9XA
                                                  44 (0) 1 457-834-835
                                             Fax: [phone]
EXLP Global (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
Division of Excel Polymers LLC
No. 451, Yuanzhong Rd.,
Nanhui Industrial Zone
Shanghai, 201300, China
                                                        86-21-68009876
(see ad on page 65)

Gayson SDI
30 Second St., SW
Barberton, OH 44203                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                               Website: www.gayson.com
Robert C. Bradley, Frank Manello, Robert
Droman, co-owners
Equipment: Mixer, 2-roll mills, 3-roll mills
Mixing capabilities: Silicone dispersions,
colors, catalysts, additives, liquid silicone
colors
Capacity: 2 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Gel Concepts LLC
30 Leslie Ct.
Whippany, NJ 07981                                      [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                          Website: www.gelconcepts.com
                                        Email: [e-mail]
                                  Services offered: Custom elastomeric
materials and gels
Capacity: 7 million lbs.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Gold Key Processing, Ltd.
14910 Madison Rd.
Middlefield, OH 44062
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                           Website: www.goldkeyltd.com
                                        Email: [e-mail];
                                             [e-mail]
Edward Seeley, VP, sales & marketing;
Dale Wagner, new business development
manager
Equipment: One Krupp GK250, two
Shaw K6A mixers with multi mill take-off,
one Krupp GK45E pilot mixer
Services offered: Custom rubber mixing
Mixing capabilities: Natural rubber and
all synthetic polymers except silicone
Capacity: 95 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
(see ad on page 67)

Goldsmith & Eggleton, Inc.
300 First St.
Wadsworth, OH 44281. [phone]
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                   Website: www.goldsmith-eggleton.com
                                  Email: reggleton@goldsmith-eggleton.
                                                                   com
Rob Eggleton, v.p. sales & mktg.
Equipment: F-270 and #11 internal mixers
Services offered: Carbon black master-batches
Mixing capabilities: Industry standard
SBR BMB, asa well as EPDM, IR, SBR/
BR and customer proprietary master-batches
Capacity: 65-70 mm lbs./year
Technical service: yes
Recipe development: yes
(see ad on page 68)

Graphic Arts Rubber, Inc.
101 Ascot Pkwy.
Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                     Email: [e-mail]
                                    Website: www.graphicartsrubber.com
Glen Hoffman, president
Equipment: Four 60" mills, 54" calender,
24" calender and slitters, one 84"
mill, strainer, extruder, 66" calender, strip
stock capabilities
Services offered: Mixing, calendering
and development
Mixing capabilities: All--no free black;
custom calendering
Capacity: 5 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Hawkins Industrial Resource Co.
1001 East 18th St.
Muncie, IN 47302                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Darryal Hawkins
                                               Email: [e-mail]
Equipment: 16", 42" and 60" mills and #1
internal mixer
Services offered. Specializing in small
batch custom mixing: 5 lbs. and up
Mixing capabilities: SBR, EPDM, EVA,
natural, Viton, Vamac, Hypalon, nitrile,
hydrogenated nitrile, carboxylated nitrile,
millable urethane

Hexagon Polymers Compounding
Sprl (Thona)
Industriestrasse 36
B-4700 Eupen, Belgium
                                                      (32) 87-59-54-30
                                                 Fax: [phone]
Hexagon Polymers S.R.O. (Thona)
Sumperska Ulice 1344
78391 Unicov
Czech Republic                                          420-585-004011
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Hexagon Polymers Compounding
NC Inc. (Thona)
280 Crawford Rd.
Statesville, NC 28625                                   [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Hexagon Polymers Compounding, ULC
(Thona)
1635 Industrial Blvd.
Magog, Quebec, Canada J1X 5B3
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Hexagon Polymers Compounding
GmbH (GFD Technology)
Ottostrasse 34
D-41836 Huckelhoven-Baal
Germany                                                (49) 2433-97550
                                               Fax: [phone]
Hexagon Polymers Compounding (Qingdao)
Co., Ltd.
Lin-Gang Economic Development ZOne
266431, Jiaonan, Qingdao, China
                                                     (86) 532-81731118
                                                Fax: [phone]
Hexagon Polymer Compounding S.A.
de C.V.
Av. Japon 302
Parque Industrial San Fancisco
San Francisco de los Romo, Aguascalientes,
Mexico, CP 20300
                                                Email: [e-mail]

Gislaved Gummi AB
Box 522
SE--332 28 Gislaved
Sweden                                                 (46) 371-848-00
                                                  Fax: [phone]
Equipment: Internal mixers with intermeshing
technology and advanced
downstream equipment including inline
strainer technology and pelletizing
Services offered: Production, R&D, technical
customer support
Mixing capabilities: All synthetic and natural
rubber including special polymers;
black and color compounds
Capacity: 140,000 tons
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Kardoes Rubber Co.
P.O. Box 350
1061 Lafayette Ind. Park
LaFayette, AL 36862                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Equipment: S-268 mixer, 76" 4-roll calender
and two 3700 mixers
Mixing capabilities: NR, SBR, EPDM,
CR, NBR and PBD
Capacity: 200 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Kirkhill Mfg. Company
12023 Woodruff Ave.
Downey, CA 90241                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Athens Plant
215 Oneta Street
Athens, GA 30601                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                          Website: www.rubbersales.com
                                             Email: [e-mail]
Vakar Maniar, John Doma or Ed Reker
Equipment: Internal mixer, mills, Barwells,
full laboratory
Services offered: Custom mixing and
preforming
Mixing capabilities: All polymers
Capacity: 85 million lbs.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Laur Silicone, Inc.
4930 S. M-18
Beaverton, MI 48612-9181
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                  Email: [e-mail]
Daniel T. Laur, pres.
Equipment: Mills, double arm mixers,
preforming strainers, calenders, liquid
rubber mixing machine
Mixing capabilities: Exclusively silicone;
all silicones including liquids
Capacity: 1.5 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Lauren Manufacturing
2228 Reiser Ave. SE
New Philadelphia, OH 44663
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                               Website: www.lauren.com
                                             Email: [e-mail]
Scott Peters
Equipment: Skinner/Shaw Intermesh K5
mixer
Services offered: Rubber compounding
extrusion, molding and services, in-line
straining and pelletizing of compounds
Mixing capabilities: Dense and sponge
rubber, black and color compounds, converted
strips for 20" to 1" wide.
Capacity: 16-18 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
Branch
LMI Custom Mixing
804 Byesville Rd.
Cambridge, OH 43725. [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Jim Nixon, manager

Midwest Custom Mixing
920 Main St.
P.O. Box 555
North Miami, OK 74358-0555
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Stacey Morgan
Equipment: 110L Kneader mixer, 100L
Kobe mixer, 60" mill, 50" mill, 40" mill
Mixing capabilities: Mixer and open mill
mix of all solid elastomers
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Mohican Industries, Inc.
1130 Myers Parkway
Ashland, OH 44805                                       [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                             Email: [e-mail]
Equipment: Open mill and mixers
Mixing capabilities: Polymers
Capacity: 5 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Natrochem, Inc.
P.O. Box 1205
Savannah, GA 31402-1205
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                            Website: www.natrochem.com
                                           Email: [e-mail]
Ann Grady
Equipment: Two mixers, two reactors
Mixing capabilities: Toll processing of
dry liquid concentrates and blending
operations
Capacity: 20 tons per day
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Passaic Rubber Co.
45 Demarest Dr., P.O. Box 505
Wayne, NJ 07474-0505
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                              Website: www.passaic.com
                                             Email:[e-mail]
Jeff Leach
Services offered: Contract manufacturing,
roller manufacture, belting manufacture,
custom calendering
Equipment: Calenders, lathes, slitters,
presses

Pelmor Laboratories Inc.
401 Lafayette St., P.O. Box 309
Newtown, PA 18940                                       [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                               Email: [e-mail]
Paul White, sales mgr.
Kim Miller, tech. mgr.
Equipment: Clicking machines, coolers,
deflashing equipment, dies, extruders,
grinders, lathes, mills, mixers, molds,
ovens, platens, compression molding
presses, injection molding presses,
transfer molding presses, slitters, electric
autoclave, 1B mixer, roll mills
Mixing capabilities: Generally all types,
specializing in fluoroelastomers
Capacity: 500,000 lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Pinnacle Elastomeric Technology
5336 BBS Dr.
Braselton, GA 30517                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                   Website: www.pinnacleelastomers.com
                                    Email: [e-mail]
Bobby Rathbun
Equipment: Mixing mills
Services offered. Fluoroelastomer and
HNBR mixing
Mixing capabilities: Open mill, slab, strip
or cord
Capacity: 2.4 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Polymerics, Inc.
2828 Second St.
Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                         Email: [e-mail]
Shelby Washko, dir. of sales; John Paul
Cubbal, vice president, business manager;
Joseph Arhar, vice president, technical
materials
Services offered: Custom rubber mixing,
dispersions, chemical blends
Mixing capabilities: Most polymers
Equipment: #9 mixer, #3 mixer, 60" mill,
84" mill, extruder
Capacity: 24 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
Branches:
Polymerics Inc.
1540 St. Clair Ave.
Kent, OH 44240                                          [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Polymerics Rubber Jiangsu, Ltd.
Zhengjiang, China
(see ad on page 71)

Portage Precision Polymers, Inc.
215 W. Lake St.
Ravenna, OH 44266                                      [phone]
                                                  Fax: [phone]
                                           Website: www.pppmixing.com
                                        Email: [e-mail]
Rick Hartley
Equipment: Internal mixer, 84" mill, 60"
mill, 66" 3-roll calender
Services offered: Custom polymer mixing
and compound development
Mixing capabilities: EPDM, NBR,
natural, SBR, PBD, polyisoprene, butyl,
halobutyl, CSM, polychloroprene, FKM,
HNBR
Capacity: 24 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
(see ad on page 66)

PPD Rubtech
400 Raymond
Waterville, Quebec, Canada JOB 3H0
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Michael Cassin
                                             Email: [e-mail]
Equipment: Variable mixer, 6 wing mixer,
variable mills, calender, preformer
Mixing capabilities: All except silicone
Capacity: 15 million kg/year
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Preferred Rubber Compounding
1020 Lambert St.
Barberton, OH 44203                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                       Email: [e-mail]
                                      Website: www.preferredrubber.com
Equipment: Internal mixers, mills, extruder,
strainer, full development and
testing labs
Mixing capabilities: All heat-curing rubber
polymers, color mixing
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
Branches:
2130 U.S. Hwy. 78
P.O. Box 245
Tallapoosa, GA 30176                                    [phone]
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                     Website: www.associatedrubber.com
                                    Email: ken.adair@associatedrubber.
                                                                   com
Ken Adair, sales mgr.
Equipment: #11, F270, Shaw K6A and
tilt mixers, calenders, strainer, extruders,
pelletizer, cutters
Services offered: Custom compounding,
chemical dispersions, calendering, pelletizing,
straining
Mixing capabilities: All polymers except
silicone
Capacity: i25+ million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Huntingdon Division
55 Associated Way
P.O. Box 765
Huntingdon, TN 38344
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Jim Knight, plant mgr.
Equipment: #11 mixers, F-270 mixer
Mixing capabilities: All polymers except
silicone
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
ProBlend Division
165 County Rd. 33
P.O. Box 125
Fruithurst, AL 36262                                    [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Larry Lorren, plant manager
Equipment: 55 liter mixer, dry blender,
pelletizer and preformer, 60" mill, strainer,
extruder
Mixing capabilities: All polymers except
silicone
Capacity: 8 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

R&S Processing Co., Inc.
15712 Illinois Ave.
P.O. Box 2037
Paramount, CA 90723-8037
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                         Website: www.rsprocessing.com
Karen Kelly, pres.
Equipment: #11, #9 and #4 mixers
(black), and #4 mixer (colors)
Mixing capabilities: Most elastomers
Capacity: 35 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
(see ad on page 74)

Rainbow Mastermixing LLC
467 Dan St.
Akron, OH 44310-3906 [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                  Website: www.rainbowmastermixing.com
                                     Email: tlowe@rainbowmastermixing.
                                                                   com
Tim Lowe, gen. mgr.
Equipment: 60" rubber mills, 42" rubber
mill, ODRs, tensile and Mooney testers
Services offered: Color matching, compounding
Mixing capabilities: All types (black and
non-black), specializing in fluoroelastomers
Capacity: 1.5 million lbs.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Reiss Manufacturing Inc.
1 Polymer Place
Blackstone, VA 23824                                    [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                             Website: www.reissmfg.com
                                          Email: [e-mail]
Allen Johnson, sales and marketing
Services offered: Custom and standard
formulating and mixing of silicone, fluorosilicone;
molded compounds including
silicone, fluorosilicone, Viton, fluorocarbon
and EPDM rubber; extruded profiles
and tubings; calendered roll goods; laminates,
die cut, splicing and other fabricated
functions; molding by compression,
injection, transfer and liquid injection;
fabrication; solids, sponge and foams,
registered to ISO 9001: 1994/TS16949
lab testing, prototype design, in house
mold design and manufacturing
Equipment: Internal mixer, mills, extruders,
presses, calenders, clicker dies
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Robbins LLC
3415 Thompson St.
Muscle Shoals, AL 35661
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                           Website: www.robbinsllc.com
                                         Email: [e-mail]
Billy Conner
Tallapoosa Division
280 Pequanoc Dr.
P.O. Box 215
Tallapoosa, GA 30176                                    [phone]
                                                     Fax: [phone]
Equipment: Krupp GK-250E, F370,
F270, #12, #15, #11 mixers, 84" mill,
100" mill, and 72" 4-roll calendering,
autoclaves, extruders, mills, mixers and
presses
Mixing capabilities: All grades
Services offered" Custom formulations,
full development and testing, color mixing,
compounding, calendering, extrusion,
molding and autoclave curing
Capacity: 300 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
(see ad on page 75)

Rotation Dynamics Corp.
2448 West 24th St.
Chicago, IL 60608                                       [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Kevin Wesolowski, Operations Mgr.
Equipment: #9 mixer, #3 mixer, 84" mill,
two 60" mills, 48" mill, 60" calender, 30"
calender, extruders
Mixing capabilities: All types excluding
silicone
Capacity: 7 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Solar Compounds Corp.
1201 West Blancke St.
Linden, NJ 07036                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                       Website: www.solarcompounds.com
                                       Email: [e-mail]
Services offered: Mixing and compounding,
formulation development and manufacture
Mixing capabilities: High speed and
shear, low speed, solids and caulks
Capacity: Greater than 10 million
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc.
1030 Evans Avenue
Akron, OH 44305                                         [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                    Email: [e-mail]
Jim Agee, national sales manager
Equipment: doughmixers, internal mixer,
dispersion mixers, open 2-roll mills, extruders
Mixing capabilities: Silicone
Services offered, Custom compounder
of silicone HLR
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Soucy Techno Inc.
468 St. Roch Nord
Rock Forest, Quebec, Canada J1N 2R6
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                                              Website:
                                   www.soucygroup.com/web/techno/index
                               Email: [e-mail]
Andre Archambault
Equipment: Mixers, extruders and calender
Mixing capabilities: Most elastomers
Services offered: Mixing, calendering,
preforming, compounding
Capacity: Rubber, 30 million lbs./yr.;
plastic, 30 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Specialized Technology Resources
10 Water St.
Enfield, CT 06082                                       [phone]
                                                        (877) str-labs
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                               Website: www.strlab.com
                                             Email: [e-mail]
Ellen Bemben
Equipment: Mixers, mills, extruders, pelletizers,
full lab, injection molding and
testing services
Mixing capabilities: Most elastomers and
polymeric compounds including thermosets
Capacity: Lab scale--up to 100 lbs. per
compound
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Specialty Silicone Products, Inc.
Corporate Technology Park
Ballston Spa, NY 12020
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                            Email: [e-mail]
                                               Website: www.sspinc.com
J.K. Hussey
Equipment: Mixers, CAD-CAM/mold-making,
extruders, mills, calenders, die
cutting, LSR equipment, robotics
Services offered: Mixing, molding, injection
molding, gasketing
Mixing capabilities: On request
Capacity: 75 million lbs./year
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Standard Rubber Products
S&D Rubber Co., Division
P.O. Box 1157
W. Hanover, MA 02339-7157
                                                        [phone]
John Davis, pres.
Equipment: Three #9 mixers, two mix
mills (60" and 84"), two strainers (4" and
8"), #11 mixer
Mixing capabilities: All polymers
Capacity: 15 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Trostel, Ltd.
736 Executive Dr.
Whitewater, WI 53190                                    [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                         Email: [e-mail]
Mike Szymborski
Equipment: K-5 Intermix, internal mixer,
coldfeed extruder/cutter
Mixing capabilities: Custom rubber mixing,
rubber preforming
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

U.S. Elastomer
161 Marble Mill Rd.
Marietta, GA 30060                                      [phone]
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                          Email: [e-mail]
David O'Brien, plant manager
Equipment: 3D internal mixer, mills
Mixing capabilities: All except FKM
Services: Calendering and straining
Capacity: 6 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Valley Rubber Mixing, Inc.
520 S. Main St., Suite 2445
Akron, OH 44311                                         [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                         Website: www.valleyrubber.com
                                       Email: [e-mail]
                                        Email: [e-mail]
Dennis Salswimmer, v.p.; James Berresford,
president; Derek Berresford, v.p.
-Glo-Mold; John Allen, technical sales
Equipment: 60" mill, 84" mill and #3 internal
mixer for black compounds; 60" mill,
84" mill, #4 mixer, 66" calender and 48"
calender for all colors
Mixing capabilities: All polymers, all colors,
most blacks, except silicone
Capacity: 25 million
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Valley Processing
Div. of Mitchell Rubber Products
491 Wilson Way
City of Industry, CA 91741
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                         Website: www.rubberworld.com/valleyprocessing
                                     Email: [e-mail]
Sy Hasan, vp of sales and technical
services
Equipment: Two #11 internal mixers, #12
Boiling, #4 Boiling (non-blacks), 66" 4-roll
calender, 60" 3-roll calender, preformer,
strainer, extruders
Mixing capabilities: All of the solids and
all colors
Capacity: 112 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
(see ad on this page)

Viceroy Rubber & Plastics Ltd.
1655 DuPont St.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6P 3T1
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                         Email: [e-mail]
George Keller
Equipment: Internal mixers, calender,
autoclaves, open mills, hydraulic compression
molding presses
Mixing capabilities: Most elastomers
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Vulcan Corp.
1151 College St.
Clarksville, TN 37040                                   [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                              Website: www.vulcorp.com
                                          Email: [e-mail]
Equipment: Mixers, mills, calender, sheet
presses, sanders, splitters
Services offered: Vulcanized rubber
sheeting and custom mixing, EVA and
PE foams
Mixing capabilities: Most elastomers
Recipe development: yes

Wacker Silicones Corp.--Silmix
2215 International Parkway
North Canton, OH 44720
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                               Website: www.silmix.com
                                     Email: [e-mail]
David Greenwell
Equipment: Mills, extruders, calenders,
internal mixer
Services offered: Compound development
and custom mixing
Mixing capabilities: Silicone and fluoro-silicone
Capacity: 8 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Wayne County Rubber, Inc.
1205 E. Bowman St.
Wooster, OH 44691                                       [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                            www.waynecountryrubber.com
                                   Email: [e-mail]
Laurie Schang
Equipment: #11 internal mixers, 3-roll
calenders, 4-roll calender, 45", 60" and
four 84" mills, slitter
Mixing capabilities: All elastomers
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

West American Rubber, LLC
1413 Braden Court
Orange, CA 92868                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                                Website: www.warco.com
                                            Email: [e-mail]
Equipment: Two #11 mixers
Mixing capabilities: All solid polymers
Capacity: 24 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Custom Services

Abrasive Supply Company, Inc.
25240 State Route 172
Minerva, OH 44657                                       [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                            Email: [e-mail]
Rob Rouse
Equipment: Cryogenic and ambient deflashing/deburring/tumbling
machine
Services offered: Deflashing, deburring,
tumbling

Adams/Renosol, LLC
1512 Woodland Dr.
Saline, MI 48176                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                        Website: www.adams-renosol.com
                                         Email: [e-mail]
Fred Adams, president
Equipment: Vinyl plastisol blending, tinting
and testing equipment
Services offered: Custom formulation
and tinting, manufacture and delivery
Capacity: Proprietary
Tech Service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Akron Dispersions, Inc.
3291 Sawmill Rd.
P.O. Box 4295
Akron, OH 44321                                         [phone]
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                     Email: [e-mail]
                                       or [e-mail]
James C. Finn, president
Services offered: Aqueous dispersions
and emulsions, chemical grinding, dry
liquid dispersions
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes
(see ad on page 77)

Aldon Corp.
221 Rochester St.
Avon, NY 14414                                          [phone]
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                           Website: www.aldon-chem.com
                                            Email: [e-mail]
Services offered: Carbon black re-packing,
either into smaller sizes or into super
sacks
Capacity: 1 million lbs./yr.

B&W Environmental Solutions LLC
220 Sacramento St., Suite #1106
San Francisco, CA 94115-2309
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                       Website: www.lrbenterprises.com
                                       Email: [e-mail]
Larry Barnblatt, customer contact
Equipment: Shredders, grinders, granulators,
fiber separation equipment, debeaders,
screening systems, devulcanization
equipment
Services offered: Complete recycling
services and support, designs and installation
Capacity: As required

Bedell-Kraus Flexographic Rubber
1350 Commerce Dr.
Stow, OH 44224                                            800 253-5556
                                                     Fax: [phone]
                                            Email: [e-mail]
Anthony Kindler, president
Services offered. Custom mixing services,
custom calendering, die cutting,
flame proofing of fabrics, grinding of
scrap rubber, flocking, saturating and
waterproofing of fabrics

Biltrite Industries
170 North Queen St.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M9C 1A8
                                        [phone]; [phone]
                                   Fax: [phone]
Tom Lennox, v.p. sales and marketing
Services offered: Custom rubber mixing
(black and colors), calender capabilities
(both supported and unsupported
goods), technical support, custom compounding
and development
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Division:
Biltrite Industries
1300 Morrical Blvd.
Findlay, OH 45840                                       [phone]
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                Email: [e-mail]
Maurice Lemieux, v.p. and general mgr.
Services offered: Custom rubber mixing
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: no
(see ad on page 5)

Calendering Specialists, Inc.
1119 Commercial Blvd., South
Arlington, TX 76001                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                         www.calenderingspecialists.thomasregister.com
                                                  Email: [e-mail]
Services offered: Custom calendering
and custom slitting
Equipment: 60" mills, 66" calender, 72"
calender, 66" slitter

Caloric Color Co.
176 Saddle River Ave.
Garfield, NJ 07026                                      [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
June Anton
Services offered: Manufacturing dispersions
for wire and cable tubing, Tefzel
striping ink, TFE, FEP, inks

Chemsultants, Inc.
9079 Tyler Blvd.
Mentor, OH 44060                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                  Email: [e-mail]
                                  Website: www.adhesiveconsultants.com
Services offered: Consultants and testing
services for the adhesive industry
Recipe development: yes

The Crislip Corp.
8096 Hartman Rd.
Wadsworth, OH 44281                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Duaine L. Crislip, Jr., pres.
Services offered: Tank lining and tank
lining applicator rubber
Equipment: Mills, calenders, autoclaves,
air compressors, sand blasting equipment
Capabilities: Open mill

Cryogenic Deflashing Systems, Inc.
1701 E. Edinger Ave., Bldg. G-2
Santa Ana, CA 92705                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                    www.cryogenicdeflashingsystems.com
                          Email: [e-mail]
Ruben Mendez, Pres.
Services offered: Deflashing all different
materials of rubber, plastic and metals;
deburring, polishing of elastomer parts
Equipment: Cryogenic deflashing and
deburring machines
Capacity: 35 million lbs.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Dura Undercushions Ltd.
8525 Delmeade Rd.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4T 1M1
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                          Website: www.duracushion.com
                                    Email: [e-mail]
Yves Boudreau
Equipment: Grinders, curing oven
Services offered: 30 mesh rubber, underpadding,
acoustical and sound control
underlayment

Entropex
1390 Lougar Ave.
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada N7S 5N7
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Derek Smith, pres.
Services offered: Reprocessing, dewatering

Great Lakes Rubber Co.
30573 Beck Rd.
P.O. Box 931099
Wixom, MI 48393                                         [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                   Website: www.greatlakesrubberco.com
                                    Email: [e-mail]
Don DeMallie
Equipment: Mixer, 48" mills, compression,
transfer and injection presses, form
grinders, trim lathes cryogenic deflasher
Services offered: Compounding, mixing,
rubber testing, bonding rubber to metal,
grinding, cryogenic deflashing
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Hiawatha Rubber Co.
1700-67th Ave. North
Minneapolis, MN 55430 [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                       Website: www.hiawatharubber.com
                                       Email: [e-mail]
Donna Zroka, sales mgr.
Equipment: 30 molding presses (including
injection press), up to 42" x 42"
platen, robotic CNC grinding, cylindrical
grinding, two 60" mills, cryogenic deflasher,
eight manufacturing cells
Services offered: Custom molded precision
rubber rollers and rubber-to-metal
bonded rubber parts and all rubber
parts
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

ICG/Holliston
P.O. Box 478
Kingsport, TN 37662                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                         Website: www.icgholliston.com
                                          Email: [e-mail]
Joann Scherf
Services offered: Release liner products

Littlern Corp.
77 Second St. SW
Barberton, OH 44203                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                             Website: www.littlern.com
                                              Email: [e-mail]
Ernie Puskas
Equipment: Powder blenders, grinding
and packaging equipment
Services offered: Blending, grinding and
packaging of additive chemicals
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Midwest Elastomers
700 Industrial Dr.
P.O. Box 412
Wapakoneta, OH 45895
                                                        [phone]
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                    Website: www.midwestelastomers.com
                                  Email: [e-mail]
Evan Piland, sales manager
Services offered: Cryogenic and ambient
grinding of rubber and plastics
Tech service: yes

National Rubber Corp.
2669 Industrial Blvd.
Bethel Park, PA 15102                                   [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                       Website: www.nationalrubber.com
                                              Email: [e-mail]
Perry Monpara
Equipment: Extruder, curing line, mixer,
open mixing mill, press, vulcanizer, post-cure
oven, cutter, puller, clicker press,
die cutting, punching equipment, lab
and etc.
Services offered: Extruded, molded, die
cut, rubber to metal bonded parts and
secondary fabrication
Capacity: 3,000 lbs. per day

Bill Peltzman and Associates, Inc.
7157 S. Owens St.
Littleton, CO 80127                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                            Email: [e-mail]
Bill Peltzman, pres.
Services offered: Textile adhesion consulting
and failure analysis, RFL adhesive
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

PolyGel
30 Leslie Ct.
Whippany, NJ 07981                                      [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Equipment: Toll compounding equipment
Services offered: Compounding of TPE/
viscoelastic gels
Capacity: 1 million/year
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Polymer Valley Chemicals
1872 Akron Peninsula Rd.
Akron, OH 44313-9100
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                        www.polymervalleychemicals.com
Michael R. Beck
Equipment: Custom treating and coating,
bagging equipment
Services offered: Custom treating and
coating, custom bagging of mineral fillers
and carbon blacks
Technical service: yes
(see ad on page 74)

Ponn Machine Cutting Company
20A Cross St.
Woburn, MA 01801                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                    Website: www.rubbeffabrication.com
                                           Email: [e-mail]
Mark Pellicio
Equipment: Punch presses, precos,
tube slicers, waterjets, clickers, machine
shop
Services offered: Die cutting, lathe cuts,
custom gaskets
Capacity: 80%
Tech service: yes

Procex Ltd.
880 Cherry St.
P.O. Box 628
Kent, OH 44240                                          [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Michael Aloisi, gen. mgr.
Services offered: Removal of rubber,
urethane, paints, polymers and adhesives

E.L. Puskas Co.
448 E. South St.
P.O. Box 229
Akron, OH 44309                                         [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
Services offered: Grinding, mixing, color
matching and blending, powdered liquids,
wetted powders and dry blends
Capacity: 3 million lbs./yr.
Technical service: yes

R.B.S.
12 Hodio Dr.
Ansonia, CT 06401-2644
                                                        [phone]
Walter A. Mierzejewski
Services offered: On site roll blocking;
grinding mill and calender rolls

Renosol Systems LLC
1512 Woodland Dr.
Saline, MI 48176                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                              Website: www.renosol.com
                                               Email: [e-mail]
Tom Jones, president
Equipment: Polyurethane mixing equipment
Services offered: Engineering, blending
and tolling
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Rondy & Company
255 Wooster Rd. North
Barberton, OH 44203                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                                Website: www.rondy.net
                                             Email: [e-mail]
Rhonda Knight
Services offered: Repelletizing, custom
grinding, custom molding
Mixing capabilities: Internal mixer and
mill mixing
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Branch:
Rondy & Company
584 Highway 28
Abbeville, SC 29620                                     [phone]
Wayne Livingstone, Mgr.

Sage Automation
4925 Fannett Rd.
Beaumont, TX 77705                                      [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                            Website: www.sagerobot.com
                                           Email: [e-mail]
Rodney Gonzalez
Equipment: FANUC and custom bale
loading gantry robots, bale resizers, HE
film wrappers, servo driven dryer bed
crumb spreaders arms, conveyors, upgrades,
retrofits and PM programs
Services offered: Design, integration,
manufacturing and service

Salem-Republic Rubber Co.
475 W. California Ave.
Sebring, OH 44672                                       [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                         Email: [e-mail]
                                           Website: salem-republic.com
Drew Ney, pres.;
Don McCaughtry, V.P.; Equipment: Processing
machinery and equipment, mills,
extruders, calenders, cutting equipment,
dryers, hose-making machinery, lathes,
vulcanizers
Services offered: Hand and machine-made
hose, custom calendered rubber
Capacity: 2.5 million lbs.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Sparton Enterprises, Inc.
3717 Clark Mill Rd.
Barberton, OH 44203                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
James Little, Jr., pres.
Equipment: Grinders, granulators, sifters
and sizing equipment
Services offered: Rubber grinding, granulating,
recycling

Specialized Technology Resources
10 Water St.
Enfield, CT 06082                                       [phone]
                                                        (877) str-labs
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                               Website: www.strlab.com
                                         Email: [e-mail]
Ellen Bemben
Services offered: Laboratory scale formulating
and compounding services
Equipment: Mixers, mills, extruders, pelletizers,
full lab, injection molding and
testing services
Capacity: Lab scale--up to 100 lbs. per
compound
Tech service: yes--full laboratory
Recipe development: yes

TRC Industries, Inc.
1777 Commerce Dr.
Stow, OH 44224-1735                                     [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                 Email: bruce.bowers@trcindustriesinc.
                                                                   com
Bruce O. Bowers
Services offered: Reclaiming EPDM,
SBR, butyl, natural, silicone and fluorosilicone
rubber
Equipment: Grinders, mills, extruders, autoclaves
Capacity: 10 million lbs. reclaiming

Valpac, Inc.
1400 Industrial Park Rd.
Federalsburg, MD 21632
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                               Website: www.valpac.com
                                               Email: [e-mail]
Frank Jennings
Services offered: Formulating, pigmenting,
contract/toll manufacturing, equipment
high/low speed dispersing, formulating,
compounding, low speed mixing, high
speed dispersing, pigmenting, homogenizing,
granulating, experience in water,
solvent and 100% solids chem-istries
Capacity: 20 million pounds
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes

Wedco, Inc.
P.O. Box 397
Bloomsbury, NJ 08804
                                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
D.C. Cuomo, v.p.
Services offered: Size-reduction of thermoplastic
elastomers and other plastics
to fine particle sizes, also manufactures
size-reduction systems and equipment
Capacity: 150,000 metric tons

West American Rubber, LLC
1413 Braden Court
Orange, CA 92868                                        [phone]
                                                   Fax: [phone]
                                            Email: [e-mail]
                                                Website: www.warco.com
Louis Gonzalez, inside sales
Services offered: Complete laboratory
including compound development and
testing, calendering, cold and hot feed extrusion
lines, microwave extrusion, splice,
compression, transfer and injection molding
with rubber-to-metal bonding
Capacity: 24 million lbs./yr.
Tech service: yes
Recipe development: yes