Thank you to all who attended and participated in the 2018 St. Charles Design 2 Part show at the St. Charles Convention Center, in St. Louis MO. Thank you also to the D2P event staff for putting together another successful show! Despite a day of wacky unpredictable...

As a group of materials, silicones are made out of polymers that contain oxygen, carbon, hydrogen,and silicium. Apart from the fact that silicone compounds are considered very clean and therefore highly preferred in the food and medical industries,other...

The industrial advent of automated manufacturing practices offers new and more efficient ways of making parts and components for products and machines of all kinds. Plastic injection molding and injection molding machines have become more and more popular....

Elastomers have many physical properties that impact a parts ability to provide an adequate seal in varying environmental conditions.  These characteristics include tensile strength, elasticity, compression set resistance, low temp performance, high temp performance,...

While there are several methods for molding rubber in the production of industrial and precision rubber parts, there are three processes that are not only the most common but also far exceed the others in efficiency, quality and time required for production. These...

In today’s connected world, there are many devices we commonly encounter everywhere and every day that make our lives better. Even if we can’t see them, these devices are out there whirring away, minute by minute day after day performing programmed tasks without fault...

Solving product performance challenges is just one of the many services we provide our customers.  And in this recent example, we had to think outside-the-box and provide an alternatively shaped molded rubber part to fill the o-ring groove and stop the leak. The...

Hammered Shut You know we provide o-rings and precision-molded rubber parts, but did you know you can count on us to help solve product performance challenges? Here’s an example ...  A company approached us experiencing seemingly random “in-the-field” performance...

A Sticky Situation … By now you know that we provide o-rings and precision-molded rubber parts, but did you know you can count on us to help solve product performance challenges. For instance, here’s an example of one customer’s unique design challenge … This client...