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ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS Page 1 2 At Stern Industries, we believe in setting the benchmark for customer engineering assistance. Whether you would like us to design your part from the ground up, or work directly with your engineers and designers, our design department is yet another service that adds value to our parts. Our Engineering department is dedicated to ensuring that you are getting the end product that you want, at the price you want. Our core competency gives us the ability to find innovative solutions for your needs. We are not dedicated to one process or limited by material selection. Let us help you select a process and material that will best suit your needs from our vast network of suppliers. Our Engineering department uses state of the art Pro/Engineer 3D software that allows us to communicate efficiently with any platform from which you may be working. Please feel free to contact our Engineering department with any questions you may have. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT US: jeffo@sternindustries.com The SAE is the Society of Automotive Engineers and is an excellent source, for members, of information in all sorts of areas of particular interest to engineers. It can be like a bedside reader to the technically inclined. Want to know the latest on Honda's new intelligent powertrain? This is the place to go. http://www.sae.org The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) provides the standards by which engineering materials are defined and specified. http://www.astm.org For a success story about our engineering solutions, go to Page 2.
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PLASTICS
Helping solve your dilemma is our core competency. The marriage of your part requirements to the right process is critical. Utilizing our access to a vast array of plastics choices will help your company succeed. Click for an extensive discussion of plastics processes.
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RUBBER
We understand the properties of the various compounds and processes to make quality parts at competitive prices. We are ready to assist you in your design decisions and to source rubber components that will to contribute to your success in a competitive business environment. Click for an extensive discussion of rubber processes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Like injection and transfer, compression molded rubber parts and components are used in a variety of markets and applications. Some of these parts have a metallic insert that have the rubber bonded to a metallic insert that adds dimensional stability to the friction, sealing, or flexibility of the rubber surface. Compression lends itself well to small production runs and prototyping.
Compression molds and equipment are generally simpler in design and less expensive that those for either injection or transfer and have correspondingly lower overheads. Because the rubber preform is at ambient temperature when placed in the mold and sees less work on and flow of the material and than injection and transfer molding, the compression process generally requires longer time in the heated mold for complete crosslinking to occur. It is therefore slower and best suitable for smaller parts, lower volume production quantities and prototyping.
Most rubber compounds can be compression molded without process difficulty or special consideration. The end usage determines the design requirements and when an existing formula is not available that meets the design criteria, the chemist develops a compound to do so.