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Whether you’re an engineer seeking technical guidance, a procurement professional tracking market developments, or an industry stakeholder looking to stay ahead of the curve, you’ll find expert perspectives and actionable knowledge here. We explore the challenges and opportunities shaping the rubber industry—from automotive applications to industrial sealing, medical devices, and beyond.
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Rubber is essential for a huge number of industries. Every day, most of them face the same practical issue: how to make production of basic compounds as efficient, simple and cost-efficient as possible? And how to do that while also improving quality of output and enabling rapid reshaping to fit the exact size, shape and characteristics of the finished components?
Standards and expectations are rising all the time, so how can businesses respond? VMI is always developing effective solutions to help them compete more effectively- and profitably.
Batch-Offs are fundamental to every process that uses rubber-based compounds. This is where rubber is cooled and prepared for the next stage of production. VMI, as a leader in rubber technology, is continuously looking for ways to increase automation and reduce human touch points in this process. That’s how we help manufacturers cut their costs, solve the problem of labor shortages, while reducing errors, as well.
The Vertical Pallet Transport system (VPT) plays a key role in delivering end to end automation from VMI.
Retreading makes sense, for the environment and the bottom line, yet the retread market is facing problems, and especially the need to compete against low-cost new tires. End users now often prefer to buy new tires, offered at bargain prices and often of low quality, instead of a high-quality retread.
One of the keys to fast development is applying a new technology- originally designed for a different industry- to your own. The results can be surprising- and profitable. That’s how VMI is bringing new levels of accuracy and efficiency to industries as varied as healthcare, oil & gas, electronics, tire building and many others- all thanks to a single breakthrough technology: High Precision Extrusion.
Read more to find out how cross-fertilization of ideas works inside an innovation-focused business.
VMI’s Closed Air circulation technology provides a new and better solution that takes greater care of employee health, safeguards the environment- and gives better cooling results.
The batch-off might be seen as the simplest, even the most basic piece of equipment in rubber production. And yet, as businesses aim to automate every stage of rubber production from one end to the other, stacker performance has become perhaps the key differentiator.
Read the full blog to find out how VMI’s automated pendulum type stacker is transforming accuracy, speed and costs in every part of the industry.
VMI has been building high performance systems with continuous extrusion and gear pumps since 2004, when we acquired the AZ extrusion business in Germany, which already had a 30 year history at that point. Yet the demands on the industry are growing and changing- and especially where high performance new compounds are concerned.
The VMI Group, based in Stow OH, is helping ambitious, growth-focused American companies to profit from demand through its flexible, high performance extrusion and gear pump systems, with straining, preforming and mixing capabilities.
Every company that works with rubber, and that’s most manufacturers in almost every sector, uses batch-offs to cool its semi-finished rubber products. Many companies see batch-offs as a commodity, but that’s not the truth. Not all batch-offs are equal!
Not many companies have a history that aligns with the lifecycle of an entire industry- but VMI Group does. 2025 marks our company’s 80th anniversary, and we have been involved with the technical rubber industry for around 70 years.