IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Rubber Industries is designated as an essential manufacturer due to our Medical and Department of Defense manufacturing.
We continue to operate all aspects of our tooling and manufacturing 24x7x365
Powder Coating Plugs and Masking Plugs
High Temperature Plugs
For 50 years, Rubber Industries has been committed to meeting our customers' custom molded rubber needs. Our expertise enables us to provide solutions to the most difficult applications, especially masking and high temperature plugs for your project.
Our focus at Rubber Industries is service to our customers through our rapid prototyping, custom tooling, and production all at our Minneapolis 5 acre campus, or with our partner in China.
Whether your needs are for 10 pieces or millions, we will establish a partnership with you from the beginning. In this way, we can work as a team to create your exact needs.
We are the only company that can take you from custom molded prototyping, tooling, production all here in Minneapolis, or with our partners in Asia and it is seamless to you. Your specific requirements are considered throughout every stage of the project.
We manufacture tens of millions of parts annually, make 100's of custom molds annually, and also source millions of parts from Asia. We are your one source for all custom molded projects.
Our engineers will evaluate the best possibilities for part and mold design, while our chemists will formulate a material specifically to meet functional, color, and environmental requirements. As experienced professionals, we will work with you to find solutions to your most demanding challenges.
Our modern facility is equipped to provide complete in-house production capabilities for
Injection molding
Transfer molding
Compression molding
LSR (liquid silicone rubber)
Rapid prototyping
These broad capabilities enable us to provide you the best product quality, price, and delivery.
Our focus at Rubber Industries is service to our customers through our rapid prototyping, custom tooling, and production all at our Minneapolis 5 acre campus, or with our partner in China.
Whether your needs are for 10 pieces or millions, we will establish a partnership with you from the beginning. In this way, we can work as a team to create your exact needs.
We are the only company that can take you from custom molded prototyping, tooling, production all here in Minneapolis, or with our partners in Asia and it is seamless to you. Your specific requirements are considered throughout every stage of the project.
We manufacture tens of millions of parts annually, make 100's of custom molds annually, and also source millions of parts from Asia. We are your one source for all custom molded projects.
Our engineers will evaluate the best possibilities for part and mold design, while our chemists will formulate a material specifically to meet functional, color, and environmental requirements. As experienced professionals, we will work with you to find solutions to your most demanding challenges.
Our modern facility is equipped to provide complete in-house production capabilities for
Injection molding
Transfer molding
Compression molding
LSR (liquid silicone rubber)
Rapid prototyping
These broad capabilities enable us to provide you the best product quality, price, and delivery.
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Tapered powder coating plugs and masking plugs are most commonly used to protect blind holes and in some applications through holes as well. These plugs can be used on both threaded and on-threaded holes. Plugs are also reusable and color coded for easy identification.
It all starts with you, and your project goals
We work with you on the design of your compound, mold, and part, to help find the best path for your success with part design, performance, cost, and quality Then, add the best industry experience in rubber and silicone molding
In-house engineering
Full time chemists for custom compound design
Lean manufacturing for exceptional quality and price
24/7, 365 operation to better serve you and meet your project deadlines
Because we operate 365 days a year, you receive the best return on your tooling
investment... we will mold your parts 7 days a week
It all starts with you, and your project goals
We work with you on the design of your compound, mold, and part, to help find the best path for your success with part design, performance, cost, and quality Then, add the best industry experience in rubber and silicone molding
In-house engineering
Full time chemists for custom compound design
Lean manufacturing for exceptional quality and price
24/7, 365 operation to better serve you and meet your project deadlines
Because we operate 365 days a year, you receive the best return on your tooling
investment... we will mold your parts 7 days a week
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Applying paint to surfaces seems nearly as old as human history. |
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
–Arthur C. Clarke When Tom Sawyer recruited the neighborhood kids to whitewash that picket fence in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer it created quite a memorable chapter in Mark Twain’s famous tale. It was no ordinary picket fence like what you are picturing. It was thirty yards long and eight feet high. It wasn’t just a half hour of sloshing paint on some boards. It was going to be work, which is why Tom wanted nothing to do with it. But it was his punishment and it had to be done. As a result, he did some scheming, and managed to convince the boys in the neighborhood that painting this fence would not only be fun, it would be so much fun that they ought to pay him for the privilege. Which they did. Somewhere between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago people made primitive marking on cave walls using pigments along with some type of utensils for applying the pigment. The pigments were crushed into a fine powder and mixed with grease to make the paint fluid, and applied with brushes made from animal hair. By using scraping tools detail could be added. Egypt was an early empire that brought advances to the art of painting, developing watercolor washes on stone which, because of the dry climate, have been preserved to this day. The Mesopotamians, another early civilization, developed techniques in painting and firing pottery, early forerunners to some of the sophisticated techniques we use today. The Aegean civilization on the Island of Crete created art by soaking wet plaster with pigments. The plaster would become one with the walls, later to be called fresco, an Italian word that means “fresh” or “new.” Mosaic tiles became another colorful method of decoration, becoming especially sophisticated over time. The tessellations in Spain’s Alhambra are profoundly complex, forerunners to some of the etchings of M.C. Escher. Ceramic tiles are created by means of chemistry and glazes fired in controlled intense heat. |
Powder Coating and Engineering Design |
In the context of human history, powder coating is simply another advance in the technology of coating surfaces. How it is achieved is both simple and complex. The powder is basically dry pigment with the solvent removed. Utilizing polymer resin systems combined with curatives, pigments, flow modifiers and other additives, the material is mixed, cooled and ground into a powder similar to flour. This “flour” is applied electrostatically and then cured under heat so as to form a skin that is fused as a protective layer, becoming one with the surface. Though usually applied to metals, there are many other applications. Because it is much harder than paint it is
extremely durable. Powder coating also has an environmental benefit. The process is carried out within a sealed system so that there is no risk of air pollution. Furthermore, whatever powder does not adhere to the surface can be collected and reused. There is virtually no waste, in keeping with your company’s sustainability aims. This assumes that operators take care to properly seal equipment with masking plugs and gaskets that keep the material where it belongs. Attention to detail is the difference between amateur and professional workmanship. |
Applications
With the advent of powder coating technology there are a whole array of applications that few people have given much thought to how it was achieved. For example, the dazzling effect bright colored rims on a high-end tuner car is a brilliance produced by means of powder coating technology. Likewise many engine parts come alive with the kind of detailing only powder coating can produce. Powder coating applications cross a range of industries from agricultural equipment and appliances to transportation and architecture. In fact, the applications are so numerous now that it would take pages simply to list them.
With the advent of powder coating technology there are a whole array of applications that few people have given much thought to how it was achieved. For example, the dazzling effect bright colored rims on a high-end tuner car is a brilliance produced by means of powder coating technology. Likewise many engine parts come alive with the kind of detailing only powder coating can produce. Powder coating applications cross a range of industries from agricultural equipment and appliances to transportation and architecture. In fact, the applications are so numerous now that it would take pages simply to list them.