Meet Our Employee Rodney Lemire
Rodney is our lead rubber molder at our Aitkin, Minnesota plant or plant number 3. His duties include getting the presses started in the morning, by making sure all the equipment, tools, EPDM rubber and castings are set up at work stations. Plant number three has three injection presses, a bonding room and warehouse; the […]
It Takes Sub-Zero Temperatures To Remove Our Rubber Flash
After our new addition was completed, where we added about 12,000 square feet to the main building (plant number one), the first department to take advantage of the extra room was our cryogenic deflashing and rubber trimming departments. We created a space on the first floor that houses a room for the trimming and inspection […]
Gate Valves For The Water Industry Start In Aitkin Minnesota
Stern Rubber Company has three locations located in Minnesota; two plants are in Staples and the third is located in Aitkin. The Aitkin plant, or plant number three, is dedicated to producing rubber to metal bonded gate valves for two of our customers: American Valve and Hydrant in Beaumont, Texas, and Waterous Company in South […]
Why You Don’t Pee In Your Neoprene Wet Suit?
Neoprene or polychloroprene is a synthetic rubber that is flexible at different temperatures, has good oil-resistance and has substantial chemical stability. Stern Rubber Company compounds our polychloroprene in house and does dense rubber molding and rubber extrusion. Neoprene offers good resistance to gasoline, oil, acids and alkalis. Its characteristics make it an excellent application for […]
Rubber Extrusion Capabilities
Stern Rubber Company is adding to its extrusion capabilities by adding a 3 1/2″ NRM vacuum extruder. After being a custom rubber molder for over 40 years, Stern Rubber Company added extrusion capabilities in 2010, when they partnered with a customer to add a 3 1/2″ extrusion line with microwave/hot air cure to the Plant […]
Meet Our Employee John P. Kincaid
John was born and lived in Freeport, Illinois, until the age of five, then moved to Minnesota until the age of twelve. He moved with his family to Montana and moved back to Minnesota at the age of fifteen. That was his last move and still resides here in the state of Minnesota. After high […]
Makerbot 3D Printer, Another Tool In Our Quality Assurance Lab
3D printing or Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a technology that creates parts from a wide variety of materials in which the parts are formed layer by layer by an additive process, unlike the original more traditional methods of creating parts by a molding or casting process. The types of material that work best for 3D […]
EPDM Rubber Or Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer Rubber-M Class
This type of synthetic rubber, ethylene propylene diene monomer, or simply referred to as EPDM rubber, has uses in many different applications. This is an M-Class rubber where the M refers to its classification in ASTM standard D-1418. Ethylene is obtained from petroleum and natural gas and is a colorless, flammable, gaseous, alkene with a […]
Grand Opening Of Our New Stern Rubber Company Building Addition
Today is our grand opening of our new building addition at Stern Rubber Company in Staples, Minnesota. Since 1969, Stern Rubber Company has been the only manufacturer of custom rubber products offering creative solutions and strategic partnerships to innovative companies in North America, who want to lead their industries in a fiercely competitive global market. […]