The process of transferring the formulated raw material into a finished molded part complete with the physical properties required by the customer for end use.
We work with our customers' engineering and purchasing departments to help them with their parts for their specific needs.
We also work closely with several skilled machine shops to help build the tooling for their projects and our various presses provide the heat and pressure necessary to produce a finished molded part.
Cascade Rubber offers expert mold making and tooling upgrades. Proper mold construction is a vital part of dependable quality. We also offer a wide range of elastomers to meet your needs. Our experts can help you find the right formulation.
Large Compression Presses
Cascade Rubber has large compression presses with platen sizes up to 84" by Large Compression Press 110". We can mold large rubber pieces like box hydro-forming pads or industrial sized rubber coated screens. We are experts in large rubber pieces including bonding elastomers to large metal shapes. Do not hesitate to call and discuss your needs with us. If you have settled for urethane or other materials because you couldn't find anyone who could mold large rubber pieces, you've found the answer.
Most rubber molders would have to mold this ring in segments and then splice the segments to form the completed gasket. But at Cascade Rubber, with our larger presses, we were able to mold the entire piece shown providing greater part integrity and improved field performance. This is an example of how Cascade Rubber's unique capabilities can give you more -- and better -- options to improve your competitive edge.
We work with aluminum, mild steel and custom alloys and do all of our own in-house metal preparation using an etching process and custom cementing.
We use heat and pressure along with the proper cement to cause a molecular cross linking of rubber, cement and metal which will give an excellent adhesion of the rubber material to the metal.