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Akron, OH – Rubber World is offering a special October savings when you purchase our Blue Book Online and Van Walworth’s Compression Molding of Rubber – A Practical Handbook for $235, a savings of $90 if purchased separately. Order now, this offer ends October 31, 2025. Compression Molding of Rubber – A Practical Handbook is the second book by Van T. Walworth, building upon rubber industry technology and know-how. This book focuses specifically on the technical aspects Van considers to be fundamental principles of compression molding of rubber products. Some of the information presented in this book will be obvious and well known to many rubber molding practitioners, while at the same time, much of the content discussed in this book will not necessarily be considered basic, or even obvious, to those skilled in compression molding technology. From Van’s point of view, compression molding has not been replaced by transfer molding or injection molding, but rather, the process of molding rubber products has been expanded from compression molding to include transfer and injection molding. Compression molding remains the most widely used process in the world of rubber molding. Advancements in transfer molding and the installation of thousands of injection presses are somewhat offset by the ever-increasing market demand for rubber products. As a result, compression molding remains a vibrant, valuable, and necessary molding process in the rubber industry, and yet may also be the most widely underutilized rubber molding process. The Blue Book Online – Long regarded as the industry’s single most important reference for technical information, the Blue Book contains detailed information on every raw material used by the rubber industry-including chemical additives, extenders, elastomers and latexes, fillers and reinforcing materials, carbon black and coloring materials. The latest, most current information on more than 10,000 materials and ingredients are listed. And, to help you locate the best materials at the lowest possible cost, more ingredients are listed by chemical name as well as trade name.
