The Process

At The Home Rubber Company and Ivanhoe, the process begins with a conversation between our expert support staff and our customer – or their customer (the end user). Using the traditional “STAMPED” acronym to ask the key questions regarding  Size,  Temperature,  Application, Media, Pressure, Ends, and Delivery, we get to the specific needs of the rubber product.

Once a clear understanding of the application takes place, Home Rubber Company’s technical and design engineers specify the proper product and process to maximize product effectiveness and longevity and to minimize cost. From there our craftsmen begin to build your ultimate solution. Starting with compounding and mixing, we use the highest quality raw ingredients, custom formulations and open mill mixing to achieve the best possible ingredient dispersion and physical properties of the uncured rubber stock.

Depending on the finished product, we then calender or extrude the rubber as the basis for hand building, press curing or machine building the finished goods. Our factory processes include mill mixing, calendering, fabric fractioning and skimming, extruding, machine made hose and tubing, hand built hose and tubing, steam vulcanization, press curing, lathe-grinding and lathe-cutting to handle the broad range of customer requirements.

We design for abrasion, temperature, compression set, flexibility, rigidity, working pressure, vacuum, conveyed or contacted media, electrical properties, color, food applications, military and aerospace specifications, static dissipation, conductivity, non-conductivity, cost and any other critical requirements. Our rubber craftsmen have skills honed from years in our Trenton, New Jersey factory and they excel at both the art and the science of rubber manufacturing capable of building an incredibly broad array of products all under one roof. Since we begin the building process from the compound to the finished goods, we design products specifically to meet our customers’ needs rather than fitting our customers’ needs into our current capabilities, existing inventory of finished goods or into compounds that we pre-purchase. We can mix batches as small as two pounds and we don’t have to rely on outside vendors for rubber, fractioned fabric or metal components, we can react quickly to customer needs and we don’t have extra layers of outside expense built into our costs.

Finished products are inspected, tested as required, labeled as need be, certified then packaged and shipped in a timely manner to exceed our customers’ expectations. First quality ingredients, technical acumen, experienced craftsmen and diligent attention to quality go into every product that we make.