Sioux Rubber & Urethane Blog

Tiny objects can cause extensive damage. Sand, grain, gravel, and other small items are maneuvered regularly in a wide variety of industries. In a short period of time, these particles will rub, grind, and slowly eat through metal equipment. Replacing pipes, augurs, screws, or housings on a regular basis can drain your profits and leave you frustrated. The good news? It’s an avoidable problem. Endurawear Rubber is a relatively inexpensive solution for covering and protecting the exposed parts of your machinery, strengthening your equipment, and keeping your business running smoothly.

At Sioux Rubber & Urethane, we create solutions that increase the longevity, accuracy and output of your equipment. Endurawear, our unique Urethane blend, is formulated with the combined properties of rubber and plastic to provide the ultimate protection wherever you need it. Urethane can be sprayed, poured, or brushed on almost any surface to increase impact resistance and abrasion control.

Abrasiplate is our signature steel-backed rubber, and there’s a reason it has been a bestseller for over 60 years. This customizable rubber sheet is a go-to for construction companies, sand and grit blasting businesses, manufacturing, quarries, and more. Abrasiplate will decrease abrasion and minimize wear and tear on a wide variety of equipment. It is customizable, versatile, and incredibly durable. We’re proud of these 3 ways Abrasiplate continues to help our customers save time and money:

Clamp pads are those necessary pieces of equipment warehouses and distribution centers can’t live without. These forklift attachments are made of steel or aluminum and coated with a rib-designed rubber that allows for easier handling of rolls, barrels, boxes and about anything else that needs to be moved.

So when these powerhouses of the manufacturing industry wear out, they need to be replaced; it is an expense you can’t put off. Using worn-out clamp pads is never a good idea as you risk damaging the material you’re being paid to move. But, the good news is you don’t have to spend as much as you think!

When you think about rubber, you may think about the synthetic rubber that’s primarily used in manufacturing today, Styrene-Butadiene Rubber (SBR). But natural rubber, the “original” rubber, still has its place in the chemical, mining, fertilizer, transportation and environment industries.

Safe grain handling is a top priority for both farmers and grain elevators. Last season’s difficult harvest conditions have required some area farmers to store grain with higher than normal moisture content, according to Southeast Farmers Coop in South Dakota. Unloading this grain can cause a variety of problems from clogs in the tube to bridging in the bin, which is a huge safety hazard. Utilizing best practice safety procedures, like never working alone in a bin, using lock out/tag out procedures and making sure your equipment is free of dust, helps to keep everyone safe. Adding an extra layer of protection from urethane helps keep your equipment safe as well.

2020 is not even halfway over and has already been full of more challenges than we’ve seen since this past decade. But if there’s one thing that never changes it is the need to save money wherever possible, the Great Recession taught us that. Sioux Rubber was founded more than 60 years ago to help save businesses money. Our Endurawear Rubber and Endurawear Urethane solutions, like recovered clamp pads, Abrasiplate®, Hawkpad®, rubber-covered rollers, TuffTube® and more, were developed so companies could get more work out of their tools and machinery, saving money. Our products deliver outstanding protection against abrasion, corrosion and impact resistance. While some may be watching every penny, spending a little on protection now will save more money later. 

When we talk about our clamp pads and Abrasiplate products, many times we use the term vulcanize to describe how the rubber is adhered to the substrate, but what does that really mean?

Rollers are designed to do a lot of work. They help move materials, machine parts and provide support for items moving through a machine. Rollers that are suffering from wear, tears or gouges can’t perform like they were intended. Sioux Rubber & Urethane has been recovering rollers with high-quality urethane for decades. Here are just a couple of facts about our urethane-recovered rollers.

There’s a lot of talk about luck this time of year (and tiny green men) and though you might scoff at the idea of “luck,” there is such a thing as making your own “good luck.” Opting to recover, instead of replacing, your worn-out clamp pads offer all types of lucky benefits like reduced downtime and lower cost all in one amazing product.