Flexan LLC, a leading provider of custom contract manufacturing services for medical device OEM’s world-wide has announced the registration of its manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China with the Food and Drug Administration. Flexan has also successfully registered its first full...

Thermoset elastomers, commonly known as rubber, are the best materials for a wide variety of industrial applications, due to their ability to provide both flexibility and durability. However, elastomers are complex materials, which must be chosen carefully and compounded to...

Manufacturers in a wide variety of industries rely on molded rubber parts for high performance in their products. With rubber being only one of many materials used in developing a new product, OEM engineers and purchasing managers pose similar questions...

With the lines blurring between the use of thermoset elastomers or rubber and thermoplastic elastomers in product design, what distinguishes rubber from plastic in the context of micro-precision, molded parts? Although product designers may think that a part design using...

For mission-critical military vehicles and armaments, every molded rubber part must be absolutely reliable, functioning time after time in life-and-death situations. Manufacturers of military equipment and their suppliers need to work closely to develop parts that can stand up to...

Miniature pneumatic parts made from custom rubber molding are powering a growing number of new medical devices, laboratory equipment and other devices that employ fluid power in small packages. These important components are responsible for controlling the flow and pressure...