Lose To Win is a weight loss competition that the Wellness Committee, in partnership with our representatives from BCBS, launched on April 1 to get employees actively thinking about getting in better shape. The competition continues through July 1, 2014 with the final team weigh-in.
Read MoreApple Rubber continues its yearlong run to industry events across the map this week with stops at both the Greater Chicago Design2Part Show in Schaumburg. Ill. and the Medical Design and Manufacturing Texas show in Fort Worth. Both events will run on Wednesday, May 7 and Thursday, May 8.
Read MoreOver the course of 40 years, Apple Rubber has grown from a local distributor of O-rings and seals into an internationally-respected manufacturing and research operation. Apple Rubber has averaged an annual growth rate of 13 percent in international sales since 2009 and currently serves clients in over 50 countries around the globe.
Read MoreOne of our advantages at Apple Rubber is our ability to make custom tools in-house for our various client jobs. Fifteen-year Apple Rubber veteran Matthew Lewandowski manages our five-person tool shop, and hew recently took some time to answer questions about this specialized component of our Cemetery Road operation.
Read MoreWhen you want to learn more about a process at Apple Rubber, it’s best to go directly to the source. For this primer on thermobonding — “Apple Rubber’s breakthrough manufacturing process for large O-rings and seals” — we spoke to Joe Cius, thermobond department manager.
Read MoreWhen Nathan Enser started at Apple Rubber as an undergraduate intern, he was a chemical engineering major at the University at Buffalo. His experiences at Apple Rubber, however, stoked his interest in — and led him to change his major to — biomedical engineering. Now a polymer chemist, Enser’s job entails customizing existing “recipes” to meet customer specifications for compounds.
Read MoreSiliconeSeals.com, a new, one-page microsite devoted to Apple Rubber’s silicone seals product line is now live.
Read MoreApple Rubber will be represented at a pair of major industry events this week — the Life Sciences Forum, which begins today and runs through Wednesday, April 9 in San Jose, Costa Rica, and the Greater New York Design2Part Show on Wednesday, April 9 and Thursday, April 10 at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, N.J.
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