As part of Heico Companies LLC, we 
are pleased to announce our Women’s Business Enterprise National Council recertification! (WBENC is the largest certifier of women-owned businesses in the U.S. and a leading advocate for women business owners and entrepreneurs.) All of us here at STEELASTIC are proud to promote our diversity and our impact on innovation…
CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH: The STEELASTIC Co., LLC, a leading manufacturer of extrusion-based machinery for producing reinforcing components for tires, has added Dawnsun Exim Corp. to their worldwide sales and service team. Dawnsun will be responsible for STEELASTIC equipment sales, machine upgrades and customer service in India, as well as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. This is a rapidly growing area for tire manufacturing, and STEELASTIC President, Ian Dennis, noted Dawnsun’s excellent relationships with all the major tire manufacturers in India, and their reputation for knowledgeable and customer-attentive representation in the area. Dawnsun represented STEELASTIC equipment many years ago and works with STEELASTIC’s sister company, Bartell Machinery. With STEELASTIC introducing a new generation of extrusion-based component manufacturing machines and a variety of high-productivity machine upgrades, the time was right to renew the relationship with Dawnsun.
CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH: Steelastic, Inc., a leading manufacturer of extrusion-based machinery for producing reinforcing components for tires, has added Tradequest, Inc. to their sales and service team in Latin America. According to Ian Dennis, Steelastic President, “Adding Tradequest is an important part of our efforts to develop long-lasting versatile solutions for tire manufacturers, world-wide, looking to increase the versatility and profitability of their manufacturing operations.”
Steelastic sought a partner in Latin America to work with manufacturers making sure their tire equipment remained as productive as possible. As Mr. Dennis stated, “Our mission is to keep Steelastic equipment in the field operating at maximum efficiency by ensuring customers know about new innovations to improve capability and operability. Tradequest’s ability to assist customers with equipment acquisitions, maintenance and upgrading was as attractive to us as our manufacturing systems are to them.”
STEELASTIC will be launching its game-changing Extruded Textile Body Ply capability featuring its proven precision splicing technology at TireTech 2019. This follows the successful launch of its highly automated, closed-loop controlled, Next Generation Extruded Steel Belt machine at TireTech 2018. The introduction of extruded textile body ply capability is the final piece in the puzzle to make the lower volume, highly flexible, ‘calenderless’ tire plant of the future a reality. Come visit Booth #8014 to see how our range of tire component preparation equipment is changing the future of tire manufacturing forever.
STEELASTIC will be participating in the upcoming India Rubber Expo trade show in Mumbai on January 17th, 18th and 19th 2019. Evan Smith will be attending the show along with our India sales agent Mr. VM Kulkarni of Pelmar Engineering. We will be exhibiting in the Pelmar Engineering Booth No. H-002. It is expected that most of the major tire companies in India will be attending this show, including Apollo, MRF, CEAT, TVS, JK Tyre, BKT, ATG and others.
Here at the STEELASTIC Company, we are in the business of engineering and manufacturing custom, automated systems that produce tire and heavy equipment track components. To date, we have delivered over 900 of these systems which are operating in more than 55 countries around the globe.
Our multi-disciplined engineering team’s challenges are broad. In the production pipeline, these include customizing our base technology; in order to produce the customer’s unique components, interface with their downstream process, as well as, conform to their available footprint and other unique localized requirements. Driven by our “big picture” planning process, we additionally face the mission of continually improving, differentiating, and expanding our equipment offerings. Amplifying the difficulty of these challenges is the inherent, non-linear nature of the rubber that our systems process. This material’s property impedes our ability to simulate system performance, upfront in the design process, thus forcing us to rely heavily on the practical experience of our engineers and technicians, as well as, subsequent empirical testing and debugging.
CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH – Almost two years ago, the Steelastic Company embarked on an exciting long-term strategy to develop a range of machines for the smaller, more flexible, high-efficiency tire plants of the future. In February 2018, this strategy produced its first major new piece of equipment with the launch of the Steelastic Next Generation Extruded Steel Belt Machine at the Tire Technology Expo in Hanover, Germany.
The Tire Technology launch was quickly followed in May 2018 by the first sale of two Next Generation Extruded Steel Belt Systems to Finland-based premium tire manufacturer Nokian, for its greenfield factory under construction in Dayton, Tennessee. When it comes on-line, this new plant will have a capacity of four million car and light truck all-season tires per year, with room for further expansion.
STEELASTIC® is proud to announce that we are certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). WBENC was founded in 1997 and is the largest third-party certifier of businesses owned, controlled, and operated by women in the United States. The certification was granted based on the ownership, control, and operation of Heico, the parent company of STEELASTIC®, by Emily Heisley Stoeckel.
STEELASTIC®, long an industry innovator in developing systems for tire component manufacturing, will exhibit at the 2018 Tire Technology Expo in Hannover, Germany – the premier showcase for the global tire design, development and manufacturing industry.
“The tire industry is evolving at a rate never seen before,” said company President Ian Dennis. “This evolution is driving requirements for significantly increased flexibility, automation, efficiency and traceability in tire manufacturing equipment. STEELASTIC is at the forefront of technology development that satisfies these requirements as well as making smaller, more flexible and lower capital outlay tire plants a viable reality.”