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Leading Manufacturers
Phelps Industrial Products, LLC
Laurel, MD | 800-876-7325Phelps Industrial Products is a major manufacturer, fabricator and distributor for a wide range of industries throughout the world. We employ a wide range of both computerized high speed and manual equipment to fulfill the toughest demands. We also have a wide range of compressed, elastomeric and non-elastomeric materials available. Since our founding in 1945, we have taken great pride in our ability to provide quality solutions for our customers’ needs.
REDCO Rubber Engineering & Development Company
Carson City, NV | 800-733-2648REDCO is your complete source for molded gaskets or die cut gaskets, using a wide range of materials. We pride ourselves on just-in-time delivery and practice a "zero-defect" policy. Since our founding in 1948, it has been our goal to be a one-stop place for your gasket needs.
Kent Rubber Supply Co.
Grand Rapids, MI | 616-538-4970Since 1946, Kent Rubber Supply has been providing the industry with state-of-the-art gaskets. Leveraging the best equipment and the most skilled staff, we ensure we continuously meet our customers unique needs—both domestic and offshore. Our team is capable of prototyping, samples, low-run, or large-volume production. We are confident that our high-tech, industry-leading precision equipment can meet–or exceed–your needs.
RD Rubber Technology Corporation
Santa Fe Springs, CA | 562-941-4800RD Rubber Technology Corp is an ISO 9001:2015 / AS9100:2016 certified and ITAR registered company. We offer compression, transfer, injection and Liquid Injection molding, rubber to metal bonding, engineering support, tooling design, machining and more. Our customers rely on us to give them the best possible production gaskets. From aerospace to medical, food processing to military applications we build trust by being responsive to your needs.
PDI Gaskets & Seals
Newport, MN | 866-901-0014High-quality gaskets and seals are our priority at PDI Gaskets & Seals. We offer a wide range of brands and sizes for our gaskets and seals, and we even offer custom options. We carry a wide line of products including soft gaskets, metallic gaskets, sanitary gaskets, gasket sheet, gasket tape, fiberglass tape, joint sealant, expansion joints, packing, absorbents, and o-rings. If there is a product you need but don't see on our site, please reach out, and we will find it for you!
Mercer Gasket & Shim
Bellmawr, NJ | 800-210-5000Mercer Gasket & Shim brings you quality custom gaskets, o-rings & expansion joints in a wide selection of materials, including rubber gaskets, ceramic fiber gaskets, viton gaskets, metal gaskets & many others. We pride ourselves on speed & flexibility, offering 24 hour service & 100% on-time delivery.
Britech Industries
Stuart, FL | 772-286-9278Manufacturer of standard and custom rubber gaskets, made of EPDM, neoprene, nitrile, dense, recovery sponge rubber and silicone compounds. Secondary processes such as die cutting, notching, and glue splicing are offered.
Gardico
Seattle,WA | 800-537-9663As a supplier of gaskets since 1977, Gardico is dedicated to customers in all industrial sectors needing standard & custom gaskets of superior workmanship. Gardico works with a variety of foam, fiber, felt, cork, plastics, metals & numerous other materials to meet all of their customers’ needs.
National Rubber Corp.
Canonsburg, PA | 866-672-8100Whether your requirements for custom extruded parts are large or small, multi-dimensional or simple, our engineers will help in finding the solution to meet your needs here at National Rubber Corporation.
Custom Fabricating & Supplies
Franklin, WI | 800-556-7188CFS is an ISO 9001:2015 manufacturer of custom gaskets utilizing materials such as silicone rubber, EPDM, Poron®, Santoprene®, RN-8011 and Viton®. We can source the gasket material or use customer-supplied materials. Our in-house engineers will work with you to ensure the perfect fit for your custom gasket needs. CFS offers large format cutting, adhesive laminating, and kiss-cutting or split liners for your gaskets. Small runs are a possibility utilizing our dieless knife cutting capabilities.
Spira Manufacturing Corp.
San Fernando, CA | 818-764-8222Our team at Spira strives to bring you the best gaskets on the market. We exhibit our commitment to quality products by staying at the forefront of ever-changing manufacturing technology. We offer RFI gaskets to suit various applications, with groove-mounted, surface-mounted, and honeycomb filter configurations available. Contact us and we will help you find the gasket that suits your requirements.
Silicone Gaskets – REDCO Rubber Engineering & Development CompanyOther rubber gasket materials like Viton can show signs of degradation at temperatures exceeding 200°C. Also, unlike natural rubber, silicone is resistant to UV rays and ozone cracking, both of which qualities make silicone a more reliable material for sustained outdoor use.
Silicone is also highly inert in terms of chemical reactivity, and it can be used in chemical processing and some medical device applications. The major defect of silicone rubber is its relatively low tensile strength.
Silicone has a low tensile strength even compared to natural rubber, the use of which has been progressively phased out in favor of synthetic rubbers. For this reason, silicone is limited in its applications as gasketing material.
Silicone Gaskets – REDCO Rubber Engineering & Development CompanyAutomotive gaskets, for example, must be able to withstand constant torquing, compressing and other kinds of tension. Though silicone is sometimes used for gasketing in such contexts, it is unusual.
Silicone is more commonly used for gasketing material in consumer product contexts and some light industrial applications. Silicone gaskets can be used to waterproof swimming goggles, as sealant for baking materials and temporary food storage containers and in many other low-demand consumer applications.
In medical device applications, silicone gaskets can be used in dialysis machines, incubators, infusion pumps and many other devices. The application for which a silicone gasket is used depends on the silicone's grade; silicone rubber can be engineered to varying specifications.
Silicone rubber grades distinguish themselves from one another in terms of their qualities of electrical conductivity, steam resistance, chemical resistance, flame resistance and other properties.
Once the proper material has been chosen, the rubber can be formed through one of five different molding processes: injection molding, cast molding, compression molding, dip molding and transfer molding. Each process is different in terms of the possible configurations it can produce and the speed and efficiency with which it can produce parts.
