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What is required to know when I need a price on “EVA foam” and EVA foam sheets”?

by | Nov 8, 2021 | Q&A RUBBER LIBRARY | 0 comments

QUESTION:

What is required to know when I need a price on “EVA foam” and EVA foam sheets”?

ANSWER:

The terms “EVA foam” and EVA foam sheets” cover a broad range of productsThe terms “EVA foam” and EVA foam sheets” cover a broad range of products. We will try to help refine what is actually required when a customer asks for “EVA foam” and “EVA foam sheets.”

The following are some but not all details needed to decide what type of “EVA foam” and “EVA foam sheets”:

1. What is the density in pounds per cubic foot?

2. What is the compression deflection?

3. Do you have a competitor’s stock number or a sample we can analyze?

4. Is it cellular or solid?

5. If it is cellular, is it open cell or closed cell?

6. Is there a special size sheet as it relates to length and width?

7. What is the thickness?

8. Are there special tolerances?

9. Is there a specification, such as ASTM, etc.?

10. What is the application?

11. What do you want the EVA foam and EVA foam sheets to do?

12. What is the color?

13. Are there any other details not mentioned above?

Ask John anything about “EVA foam” and “EVA foam sheets.” Click here

What is required to know when I need a price on “sponge neoprene foam” and “neoprene sponge rubber foam sheets”?

by | Nov 8, 2021 | Q&A RUBBER LIBRARY | 0 comments

QUESTION:

What is required to know when I need a price on “sponge neoprene foam” and “neoprene sponge rubber foam sheets”?

ANSWER:

The terms “neoprene sponge rubber sheets” and “neoprene foam sheets” cover a broad range of products. Neoprene was once the DuPont trade name. However now it is a generic term. The chemical name for neoprene is Polychloroprene. Either Neoprene or Polychloroprene can be used to specify the polymer. We will try to help refine what is actually required when a customer asks for “neoprene sponge rubber sheets” and “neoprene foam sheets.”

The following are some but not all details needed to decide what type of “neoprene sponge rubber sheets” and “neoprene foam sheets.”

1. What is the density in pounds per cubic foot?
2. What is the compression deflection?
3. Do you have a competitor’s stock number or a sample we can analyze?
4. Is it cellular or solid?
5. If it is cellular, is it open cell or closed cell?
6. Is there a special size sheet as it relates to length and width?
7. What is the thickness?
8. Are there special tolerances?
9. Is there a specification, such as ASTM, etc.?
10. What is the application?
11. What do you want the “neoprene sponge rubber sheets” to do?
12. What is the color?
13. Are there any other performance requirements not mentioned above?

Ask John anything about “neoprene sponge rubber sheets” and “neoprene foam sheets.” Click here

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54 Reasons to visit us at the Foam Expo

by | Feb 16, 2018 | Foam Expo | 0 comments

54 Reasons Why Monmouth Rubber Will Help Improve Your Products And Your Bottom Line.

During each of our 54 years we learned something new or how to do something better from working with our customers one on one.

We cataloged all of this information in our technical support library.

It is filled with 54 years of solutions to customer problems.

Customer driven with solutions that what we have done, still do and will do for you.

Our problem solving ideas scan the world. Our solutions are put into practice here in the USA.

So here is the 54 dollar question: try us out with an idea, problem or any wild thought and see how we do for you.

Only one reason for us: solving customer problems

54 reasons that make it work for you.

Team Monmouth Rubber & Plastics - visit us at Foam Expo 2018

Visit us at Foam Expo – Booth 928 – Want to set up a meeting with us at Foam Expo? Call Call 1-888-362-6888 Ext 13 – Jenna Stevens.

FREE TO ATTEND
March 6 – 8, 2018
Novi, Michigan, USA

Learn about application development, material requirements and testing best practices from the industry experts at Monmouth Rubber & Plastics, and find out how these solutions could be transferred to your technical applications.

 

About Foam Expo

By Jamie Reid
Event Director

Foam Expo - official trade show brochure

Reprinted excerpt from Foam Expo Show Preview Brochure.

Being held March 6-8 in Novi, MI, Foam Expo is a free-to-visit event. I invite you to meet colleagues from North America, Europe and Asia who share an interest in – and are leading the development and marketing of – the latest innovations in advanced and technical foam materials and products.

Foam Expo offers you direct contact with the engineers and executives who produce materials and products used in automotive, aerospace, construction, medical, packaging, and sports and leisure. You’ll see exhibitions of materials and products that set new standards across a wide range of applications. Our aim is to give the technical foams industry the stage it truly deserves. If you are involved in the purchasing, integration, manufacture or supply of materials, products or equipment, you can be certain that your suppliers, customers, competitors and peers will all be at the show!

The Joy of Rubber & Plastics

by | Feb 6, 2018 | Rubber | 0 comments

Written by John M. Bonforte, Sr.,
Monmouth Rubber & Plastics Corp.

The ‘Joy of Rubber & Plastics‘ is our 34-page educational booklet, containing definitions, practical advice and explanations concerning closed cell materials.

‘JOY OF RUBBER & PLASTICS’ PREFACE

This book was written for all of us who grew up in a time when closed cell sponge rubber was a taboo subject. One which we dare not ask either our parents or grandparents to explain, let alone a sales manager. If you are like most people from our generation, you had to learn about closed cell sponge on the streets or in dark alleys. Even after we progressed into our respective business careers little, if any, information was available as to the basic facts of how closed cell sponge is made and used. This book is an attempt to bring this verboten subject out of the closet and perhaps maybe some day even into the classroom.

Chapter One will be a definition of terms. Before going into a brief description of what closed cell sponge is and how it is made, it is important that certain basic terms used in the industry are defined. Keep in mind when reading these definitions that they have often been misused and that you are probably accustomed to hearing them used in the wrong way. While your proper understanding of these terms is necessary, the most important point is that your technical communication with the factory be correct.

 

The ‘JOY OF RUBBER & PLASTICS’ is Free to read and download.

“SHELF LIFE OF RUBBER” Video released by Monmouth Rubber & Plastics

by | Aug 31, 2017 | Shelf Life of Rubber | 0 comments

“SHELF LIFE OF RUBBER” by Monmouth Rubber & Plastics

The “Shelf Life of Rubber” is an informative video on the general shelf life properties of rubber. It is narrated by Rubber expert, John Bonforte Sr., GM & Tech Support Director at Monmouth Rubber and Plastics. “Don’t confuse shelf life with service life of rubber” – learn more, watch the video.

Video Transcript:

The Shelf Life of Rubber

By John Bonforte Sr.

  • Welcome to Monmouth Rubbers’ Ask John Technical Support
    What would you like to Ask John about today?
  • Jenna speaks “Hi John. Customers have been asking about the shelf life of rubber. They say everything they have read is way too complicated. Can you explain it in easy to understand terms?”
  • SHELF LIFE OF RUBBER
    Can you explain it in easy to understand terms?”
  • Shelf life is a rather broad term that can mean different things to different companies and/or people.
    We keep our customer out of trouble
    with proper technical informationThat is why we have
    “ASK JOHN”
  • There are published tables that list the recommended shelf life for various polymers. These tables are only a guide for the following reasons:
  • There are published tables that list the recommended shelf life for various polymers. These tables are only a guide for the following reasons:
  • The environmental conditions under which the specific compound is stored affects shelf life.
  • Some of these conditions are: temperature, humidity, source of light if any, oxygen and ozone exposure, deformation, contact with foreign materials during storage such as liquids, semi-solid materials, metal, and non-metal materials
  • NOTE: that shelf life relates only to the functional use of the compound over a period of time when properly stored. It does not relate to how the material may or may not perform in any specific application.
  • Keeping what we just learned in mind it is important not to confuse Shelf Life with Service Life
  • Shelf Life relates to storage only. It is separate and distinct from Service Life.
  • Storage conditions as detailed previously will affect not only the Shelf Life but also the Service Life of a specific rubber formulation.
  • Shelf Life relates to storage only. It is separate and distinct from Service Life.
  • Storage conditions as detailed previously will affect not only the Shelf Life but also the Service Life of a specific rubber formulation.
  • When properly stored, that is not exposed to the negative storage variables, the Shelf Life of Monmouth’s products are minimum of at least one year.
  • The Durafoam™ DK series, specifically DK1111, DK2121, DK3131, DK4141, and DK5151 have been stored at room temperature, out of direct light, for 15+ years with no visible degradation.
    NOT A SPECIFICATION
  • Physical property testing for density, compression deflection and color change show no statistically significant change as it relates to these 15 year old retains.
  • If you need further information and clarification as it relates to Shelf Life contact us with all the test parameters required so that we can give a more specific answer to your shelf life concerns.
  • To download this information you can do so by going to our website under the heading Technical Library and then Technical Information.
  • Joy of Rubber – can also be downloaded on our website in the Technical Library under General Sales Literature
  • Have a Technical Question?“Ask John”

 

 

Company Contact:
John Bonforte, Sr.
732-229-3444 x12
johnsr@monmouthrubber.com
Monmouth Rubber & Plastics Corp.
75 Long Branch Avenue
Long Branch, N.J. 07740

Monmouth Rubber & Plastics
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