“The only thing that is supposed to come back is our customer”. I recently read that more than 32,000 companies are certified to the IS0-9001:2008 certification. Of the more than 32,000 companies, United Seal & Rubber would be included within that list. Taking the ISO9001 certification to the next level…
Quality of Design
Crown Bumper Systems for Drilling Rigs
Why is someone who is out of Atlanta GA writing a blog about Crown Bumpers that are used on drilling rigs? The answer is two fold… One, I spent a few years living in Mississippi and learned to appreciate the oil & gas market. I spent quite a bit of time traveling the great states of Louisiana and Texas…
How Much Will Your Gaskets & Seals Really Cost You?
Several years ago Parker O-ring produced a brochure that spoke about a Los Angeles Superior Court awarding $58 million in damage to a worker who was injured as a result of a defective o-ring. Through a search I learned that the male employee had been suffered severe burns. The piece I found states that this was the largest…
Extruded & Spliced (Vulcanized) FFKM
Extruded & Spliced (Vulcanized) FFKM United Seal & Rubber is proud to offer extruded and spliced FFKM (Perfluoroelastomer) products through our distributor partnership with Parker Engineered Materials Group (Parker Seal Group). FFKM materials are typically used in applications that are subject to high temperatures…
Custom Fabrication
United Seal & Rubber offers custom fabrication services in addition to our Parker (Seal) Engineered Materials and Chomerics offering. At the heart of our fabrication services that we offer is die cutting. In its simplest form, die cutting involves a steel rule die, a hydraulic press and some type of raw (gasket)material…
APQP, PPAP, FMEA, SPC & MSA Training for USR Employees
While we don’t do a lot of business in the automotive markets, we do have some transportation type business. We are seeing an increase in PPAP requirements from our non-automotive customers. I can only speculate that perhaps the increase has been created by automotive employees moving into other jobs when the automotive marketssuffered in 2008-2009…
