Keyence High Speed Measurement System

Keyence IM-series Measurement System Rubber parts are notoriously difficult to measure, as they are soft, and can deform when they are measured with a contact type measurement device such as a caliper, or a CMM.  While contact devices are still used, Stern Rubber also uses multiple non-contact measurement devices in their Quality Assurance lab.  One […]

Silicone Rubber In Your Kitchen

Silicone Rubber – Turbocharger Hoses to Food Storage Silicone rubber differs from all the other rubbers, in that it is an inorganic, synthetic elastomer, rather than an organic elastomer like all other rubber elastomers.  Silicone is made from a crosslinked silicon based polymer, reinforced with fillers.  Silicone is virtually unaffected by weather such as rain, […]

NHRA Racing in Stern Rubber’s Back Yard

Lakes, Golf, Great Restaurants and Top Fuel Drag Racing?? The Brainerd area is home to many great things to see and do, but one of the better known ones is the Brainerd International Raceway (BIR).  Located  just over 35 miles from Staples and Stern Rubber Company, BIR has brought racing to the lakes area for […]

Thomas Edison, the Rubber Wizard of Menlo Park?

Rubber From Goldenrod? When you first here the name Thomas Edison, the first thought that comes to one’s mind is the electric light bulb, the phonograph, or one of the other 1,093 inventions he patented in his career. Yet, Edison’s work extended past these items he developed while in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Following the […]

Rubber Watch Bands for Shinola

Watch Bands for American Made Watches One of Stern Rubber’s customers is Shinola.  Shinola is a fairly new company, with a very old name, that most people will recognize. The original Shinola brand of shoe shine was founded in 1907, and, grew in popularity and demand during WWI, due to the sheer number of army […]

Minnesota Inventions

Cool Inventions  And Products That Are All Minnesota Minnesota is known for its many inventions, inventors and entrepreneurs.  Here is just a few of them that you may recognize. In 1935, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, physicians invent the first oxygen mask for Northwest Airlines. In 1922, in Lake City MN, Ralph W. […]

Butyl Rubber – Tires to Chewing Gum

Butyl Rubber – From Tires to Chewing Gum Butyl rubber is another one of the synthetic rubbers, and is a copolymer of isobutylene and isoprene.  It is impermeable to air, has high dampening characteristics, and high resistance to ozone and heat ageing.  It is used in the manufacture of adhesives, fiber optic compounds, caulks and […]

Tenere – Our Latest Customer

We recently started doing business with Tenere. Tenere is full service, contract manufacturer that specializes in providing engineering support.  They do sheet metal fabrication, rapid prototyping, plastic injection molding, and machining. One of their latest projects (and the one that we are involved with) is a platform that is part of the HP Sprout computer […]

Nasty Weather Hits Central Minnesota

On Sunday, July 12th, Central Minnesota was hit with a massive thunderstorm.  This storm started near the North Dakota border, where it spun several tornadoes, before it tore through central Minnesota with hurricane force winds.  The wind just north of Brainerd hit over 100mph, which is the same as a Category 2 Hurricane. The storm […]

Time To Celebrate!

Time to Celebrate! As noted back in May, Stern Rubber Company recently was awarded the Supplier of the Year award in the Rubber and Plastics from American Valve and Hydrant for 2014.  The company won this award for 100% quality and 100% on time delivery. Also, this spring, Stern Rubber won two awards from Polaris Industries […]