Captain's Corner — rubber supplier

Seven rubber myths, debunked Myth 1: Rubber shoes, boots and tires are good protection from lightening. Fact: The myth underestimates the fortitude of a lightening. It’s not just that rubber is insufficient - rubber products are usually a good insulator. However, air is, too, and a lightening bolt pushes through miles and miles of air, which means a half-inch of rubber won’t stop it. (Source: http://stormhighway.com/rubber_shoes_boots_lightning_protection_myth.php) Most people know that cars are good lightening shelters. Contrary to common wisdom, it’s not the rubber tires insulating the car from a lightening, but rather the metal. (Source: http://www.weatherimagery.com/blog/rubber-tires-protect-lightning/) Myth 2:  Rubber flooring is great...

When looking into the overall supply chain in dealing with materials for a given supplier, it is important to look at the overall industry trends. At Rubber Captain, we track the trends in each industry in order to reduce our customer's costs. In 2016 plastisc industry poses several interesting opportunities as well as some challenges. Challenges Among challenges in the plastic industry are the ever increasing costs in human resources, insufficient foreign labor, and energy and transportation issues. The growth of the industry has been affected by the global condition cropping up typically from the economic status in the developed nations such as...

Reduction of waste. “Lean manufacturing” is a management philosophy derived from automotive industry. As a rubber supplier catering to automotive industrial rubber parts industry, Rubber Captain is constantly striving to be efficient, one way of which to do this is to trim off what we don’t need.    As with many principles a handy infographic goes a long way to explaining them efficiently (leanly you might say). Figure 1: Lean Principles When related to manufacturing the lean principle has two main objectives To provide customer satisfaction To do so profitably Essentially, anything that gets in the way of these two...