Specialty elastomeric compounding capabilities Fruithurst, Alabama

Fruithurst overview

Serving the south from Florida to Texas to Virginia, Preferred Compounding's Fruithurst plant produces color and specialty compounds.

Fruithurst is minutes from our black and color compounding plant in Tallapoosa, Georgia, with which it shares lab facilities and other resources. Just off Interstate 20, Fruithurst is within 90 minutes of Atlanta.

We routinely coordinate orders between all our plants.

• Specialty tilt mixer

Tilt mixer for color and specialty compounds

Moriyama Tilt 55 liter mixer

• Variable speed and temperature controlled mixer with dispersion mixer
• 130 pound approximate batch size
• 60-inch fixed speed drop mill and 48-inch variable speed strip mill
• Strip width capability: 1.25 to 16 inches
• Midlands cantilever bar cooling line
• Strip and slab capability
• Six-inch extruder for straining and limited pelletizing
• PLC control with operator input

Laboratory capabilities

Lab facilities for specialty and color compounding at Fruithurst are located at Preferred Compounding's plant minutes away in Tallapoosa, Georgia.

Production Support

• Rheology performance including Mooney viscosity, Moving Die Rheometer (MDR) and rheology
• Physical characterization including specific gravity, hardness durometer and stress/strain
• Percent solids for release agents