What are Industrial Rubber Rollers?

An industrial rubber roller is a machine part composed of an inner round shaft or tube covered by an outer layer of elastomer compounds. The inner shaft is made of steel, aluminum alloys, or other strong and rigid material composites. The outer layer is typically made from a polymer such as polyurethane, silicone, EPDM, neoprene, and natural rubber.

The properties of rubber rollers – impact strength, shock absorption, abrasion and chemical resistance, high coefficient of friction, and controllable degree of hardness – make them ideal for handling manufactured goods without potentially causing damage, unlike metal rollers.

Rubber and urethane rollers are used extensively in numerous industries, including:

• Paper production
• Plastic production
• Film and foil production
• Packaging

• Pushing and Pulling
• Material Conveying
• Squeezing and Wringing
• Straightening
• Cooling and Uncooling
• Pressing
• Laminating
• Driving
• Deflecting
• Feeding
• Spreading
• Coating
• Grains Milling
• Pushing
• Pulling
• Wringing
• Straightening
• Coiling/Uncoiling
• Driving
• Deflecting
• Metering
• Embossing
• Tensioning
• Converting
• Sanding (belt)
• Cutting (bandsaw)
• Sorting

Rubber rollers protect, squeeze, feed, insulate, and move products, and there’s a different size required for every job. Depending on the task at hand, the right roller for the job has to have the correct bearing rating, axle deflection, and tube strength. They have to be made of appropriate materials and have proper finish.

Electro-Coatings can recondition, recover, and repair all type of rubber rollers with all types of finishes:

• Smooth
• High Polish
• Micro Polish
• Matte
• Rough
• Grooved
• Crowned
• Barreled
• Textured
• Patterned
• Long nap (fiber-filled)
• Short nap
• Crepe

For more than 70 years, Electro-Coatings has provided high-quality, long-lasting electroless nickel plating and other industrial coating services for both large components and small components. We have a drive and passion to take on plating and coating challenges because we have the experience, expertise, and equipment to deliver exceptional results.

Electro-Coatings offers:

• Three locations across the nation: Texas, California, Iowa
• Substantial production capacity
• Logistical flexibility to minimize shipping time and costs.
• Industry-leading range of proprietary coatings & electroless nickel plating
• State-of-the-art equipment scaled to coat components of all shapes, sizes, weight, length and volume.
• Advanced experience in many traditional coating types
• In-house support services that minimize outsourcing
• Complete finishing services, including balancing, magnafluxing, sandblasting, grinding, machining, blasting, honing, passivation and electropolishing.

Electro-Coatings can remanufacture & repair a variety of Rubber Rolls to improve the wear life of your parts & equipment. We are experts in roll technology and reconditioning of worn or damaged rolls and in some cases we manufacture new rolls to original specifications. Years of experience plus the latest technologies located at our Berkeley, CA facility, make Electro-Coatings the one source you can depend upon for the repair of your industrial rolls. In some cases we can repair damaged rolls in your plant, minimizing your downtime.

CAPABILITIES 

• Remanufactured or repaired to OEM specs
• Repair services include bearings, bores, keyways, threads, and journals; header replacement if necessary.

BENEFITS

• Dual durometer helps reduce crush & eliminate skewing
• Specializing in Feed Rolls for maximum abrasion and wear resistance
• Feed Rollers surface options: slotted or un-slotted

• Dual Durometer Feed Roll
• Evol Rolls
• Feed Rolls
• Flexo Rolls
• Grooved Rolls
• Head Pulley
• Knife Rolls
• Lower Feed Rolls
• Mandrel Shafts
• Martin Feed Rolls
• Metering Rolls
• Mini Wiper Rolls
• Pattern Rolls
• Pulley
• Rubber Rolls
• Silicone Rolls
• Smooth Rolls
• Split Nip Rolls
• Upper Feed Rolls
• Waxer Rolls
• Wiper Rolls
• and more!