Sioux Rubber & Urethane Blog

We’ve all felt the chill in the air, and there’s no doubt about it: winter is right around the corner – whether we are ready or not! Severe temperatures, ice, and snow make for harsh working conditions that can severely impact operations for a variety of industries. For two or more months per year, your gear has to stand up to the winter elements without slowing down. Curious how you can protect your business, guard against winter-related damages, and maintain productivity? Look no further than Sioux Rubber & Urethane!

Do you struggle with a head-scratching abrasion, corrosion, or impact-related issue with your equipment? Perhaps you think that a protective layer of urethane or rubber would either not fit a specific shape and size, or that the cost for custom work would be prohibitively expensive. Fortunately, neither of those is true!

Year by year, day by day, hour by hour, forklifts are used to carefully move products of many different shapes and sizes. Vendors, distributors, and manufacturers rely on the safe handling of whatever item is being moved, so the forklifts need to be in tip-top shape. Forklift clamp pads allow for a forklift to hold a firm, steady grip on any box, parcel, or paper roll. Over time, clamp pads can wear, fade, and chip – creating a hazard for safely moving objects. If you’re noticing wear on your clamp pads, don’t wait until there is a costly or dangerous slip. Our replacement clamp pads will not disappoint you. Recover your clamp pads today!

Steel is known for its strength, durability, thermal conductivity, and other great features. However, it’s not resistant to impact and abrasion. Over time, most steel-manufactured components will fail due to high impact, abrasion, or chemical corrosion. Steel isn’t quite so formidable when it’s up against these enemies! When steel fails, productivity screeches to a halt. Money and time are lost due to repairs and downtime. The good news? We created a solution. Our bolted liner product line was designed to help steel stay strong for longer. 

Although summer is slowly coming to an end, we could still see some high temperatures and endure long, hot days of scalding sun. For those of us that work in those conditions, we’ve long since learned how to hydrate and protect ourselves from the elements. But, what about machinery? Let’s take a look:

We’ve got a secret that most clamp pad manufacturers won’t tell you: clamp pads can be recovered, rather than replaced, for just one-third of the cost! That’s right, rather than purchasing replacement clamp pads, by recovering your clamp pads at Sioux Rubber & Urethane, you’re saving money and protecting your bottom line. Clamp pads are bound to wear down after months of use, and recovering them is the best way to save time and money. You may seem luckier than others, but really you’ll have just discovered the clamp pad recovery secrets!

 As Precise as it Gets: Meet the Water Jet

Here at Sioux Rubber & Urethane, we are in the business of providing our customers with innovative solutions that solve abrasion, impact, and corrosion issues in their day-to-day operations. We often support agriculture, manufacturing, mining & aggregate, and warehousing businesses to obtain their goals of having their equipment run smoothly, for longer than they did unprotected. After 60+ years in business, we’ve seen it all. And because we’ve seen it all, we know that we need to be ready for anything. We produce all of our solutions here at our Sioux City, Iowa facility and have all of the equipment we need at the ready. We have a wide variety of tools and processes that we utilize to produce great outcomes for our customers, and today we’re spotlighting one of our favorites: the water jet. 

As a leading polyurethane manufacturer, rubber is our favorite naturally occurring substance. From humble beginnings, rubber has evolved to the point that it is used for a wide variety of modern applications; tires, roads, seals for vehicles and windows, and even apparel and accessories. Today, we’ll take a look at the history of rubber and the various types that we work with at Sioux Rubber & Urethane.

Sioux Rubber & Urethane are expert polyurethane foam manufacturers. Our products protect from corrosion and impact that can wreak havoc on your equipment. Do you feel like you’re constantly replacing and repairing, adding unwanted costs to your bottom line, and slowing down productivity? You’ve come to the right place. Sioux Rubber & Urethane has been solving complicated abrasion, corrosion, and impact issues for our customers for over 60 years. If needed we can create custom cast urethane parts for your machinery and equipment Trust us when we say we’ve pretty much seen it all. How can urethane lining prolong the productivity and lifetime of your equipment while saving you money? Learn how:

Here at Sioux Rubber & Urethane, we live and breathe abrasion, impact, and corrosion resistance. We’ve created numerous products and solutions designed to serve the agricultural, mining, aggregate, chemical, and manufacturing industries. Rubber and Urethane is all we do - and we’re incredibly good at it. We have rounded up a few of our most frequently asked questions and answers, in case you’ve wondered what it is like to work with Sioux Rubber & Urethane to solve your abrasion, corrosion, and impact issues.