With 10 mixers in four locations—including separate black and color buildings, specialty compounding, gear-pump straining, calendering and more—Preferred Compounding can make practically any elastomeric compound.
With Preferred, your custom compound is backed by full complement of high-performance services: flexible delivery arrangements, product development resources, technical support and more.
Just-in-time delivery
Want more control of your compound supply? With four plants in
three regions, Preferred provides compounds on a just-in-time basis to most locations east of the Rockies.
Typical lead times are from two to ten days. And when we commit to a delivery date, we meet it more than 99 percent of the time.
Complete development and improvement resources
Whether you want to reduce the cost of a compound or improve its performance and manufacturability, with Preferred you have access to our comprehensive
product development resources. Our chemists average more than 20 years in the rubber industry.
Compound research and development laboratories in Barberton, Ohio, and Tallapoosa, Georgia, serve all locations and customers.
Quality in every compound, testing in every plant
With every compound you receive from Preferred, consistent quality is our highest priority. Of every 1,000 compounds we deliver, on average five or fewer are returned.
Preferred has production compound testing laboratories in all facilities.
Compound types
- Black compounding
- Color compounding in dedicated carbon black-free buildings
- Fiber reinforced compounds
- Other specialty compounds
- Single batch to high volume
Compound forms
- Strip
- Slab
- Pelletized
- Sponge
- Dense
- Calendering
Continuing technical support
Your support from Preferred doesn't end at delivery. Our technical and manufacturing staff are available for reformulations, trial batches and manufacturability improvements to support your successful use of Preferred compounds.
This includes coming to your site on request and working in concert with your technical and production staffs.
Polymers used
- EPDM
- Natural Rubber
- Nitrile
- SBR
- Neoprene
- CPE
- HNBR
- FKM
- Vamac
Straining
- State-of-the-art gear pump straining technology
- Straining for black and color lines
In- and inter-plant redundancy
Your delivery schedule has back-up built in at Preferred. We can dual source your compounds within a plant or among plants. This ready-to-run redundancy gives you immediate access to additional capacity.
Preferred's annual capacity is 140 million pounds running three shifts five days a week. Nameplate capacity is 200 million pounds.
