Custom Rubber Molding Manufacturer

Lake Erie Rubber is a custom rubber molding manufacturer based in Erie, PA, with over six decades of experience offering services for customers in high-performance industries across the globe. We offer a wide range of injection, compression, and transfer rubber molding services including custom molding that can produce components and parts that meet your exact specifications with a focus on precision and efficiency. Our experienced and knowledgeable team can produce custom parts right here in the US by utilizing our localized and stable supply chain to offer fast turnaround times and competitive prices.

Our team of professionals can also help find the right solution for your unique business needs. Rubber manufacturing has a lot of variances available, but we will work alongside your team to offer high-level technical support and recommendations to improve manufacturability, material selection, and even tooling design. We have experience working in a wide range of industries including vibration control, pet products, mining, construction, oil & gas, rail, and more. Our customizable capabilities include injection molding, compression molding, transfer molding, and rubber mold tooling. Lake Erie Rubber offers specialized custom rubber molding solutions that keep quality high and costs low.

Custom Rubber Molding

When Should You Use Custom Rubber Molding Versus Other Manufacturing Processes?

Advantages

  • Configured specifically for your unique needs unlike other off-the-shelf solutions
  • Reduced costs over time
  • Innovative and versatile rubber molding solutions
  • Increased product performance and durability

Disadvantages

  • Increased initial investment cost for specialized tooling
  • Depending on the end application, custom rubber molded parts must meet industry safety and compliance standards that require additional time or labor. 

What is Custom Rubber Molding?

Custom rubber molding is a specialized service that manufactures high-quality rubber parts that meet your exact specifications for tolerances, production efficiency, and cost. Our team will work with you to fully understand the nature of your desired product and end-use application and can help find ways to improve production efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Custom rubber molding is ideal for applications that require rigid dimensional tolerances and unique functionality for use in specialized applications seen in the electrical generation and distribution, oil & gas, and construction industries. With a comprehensive catalog of available rubbers to choose from, Lake Erie Rubber will find the ideal material that can withstand harsh chemicals, environmental conditions, and benchmarks for flexibility. Additionally, custom rubber molding is especially useful for companies that have innovative new designs that don’t work with off-the-shelf tooling or standardized rubber molding processes.

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Industries Served

Lake Erie Rubber’s custom rubber molding service is useful for a wide variety of different industries. Here are a few examples of the industries served and what we provide for our customers:

  • Rail Industry – Lake Erie Rubber manufactures custom rubber parts for the rail industry that are safe and compliant with government regulations. This includes bellows, cable cleats, electrical insulators, sand nozzles, and custom grommets.
  • Mining – We serve companies across the mining industry by manufacturing rubber parts such as engine mounts, gaskets, flexible connectors, vibration isolators, bumpers, and much more.
  • Construction – Lake Erie Rubber provides custom rubber parts for applications in the rail industry, including bellows, grommets, gaskets, bumpers, and more.
  • Vibration Control  – We provide rubber parts for applications in vibration control, including a variety of mounts, spring cups, bushings, anti-vibration pads, and more.
  • Oil & Gas – In the oil and gas industries, Lake Erie Rubber provides custom rubber parts including gaskets, grommets, seals, and more.
  • Pet Products – Lake Erie Rubber manufactures safe products for your pets, including an assortment of dog toys. All of our pet products are safe, using only FDA-compliant ingredients. We also provide full-service capabilities, including design, manufacturing, and packaging services.

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