Clifton Rubber has been trading as an independent family owned and managed company since 1973 and in that time has developed an extensive knowledge of rubber and polyurethane materials and the processes required to manufacture high quality components. Our dedicated technical sales team will provide assistance with your project from enquiry through to delivery and are on hand to answer any queries you may have.

We have six manufacturing units each with a dedicated rubber or polyurethane production capability. This ensures we have the correct production resources to manufacture a suitable solution for our customer’s needs. Our production units include:

1. Rubber Moulding
2. Polyurethane Moulding
3. Rubber Roller Covering
4. Rubber Extrusion
5. Rubber Sheet Conversion
6. Rubber Fabrication

To support our main production functions we have an in-house engineering workshop to provide tool-making and general machining/fabrication services, including:

• The manufacture of mould tools and inserts for our rubber and polyurethane moulding units.
• The manufacture of complete roller assemblies for our roller covering unit.
• The production of extrusion dies for our extrusion unit.

Our workshop is fully equipped with modern CNC milling and turning equipment and operated by highly skilled precision engineers to ensure high quality components can be manufactured on time every time.

By maintaining this engineering capability in house we retain control of lead times, quality control and costs. This enables us to offer our customers very competitive prices for high quality tooling and fabricated parts on much tighter lead times.

We operate from a 50,000sq ft manufacturing facility located in St Ives, Cambridgeshire where we employ approximately 50 staff from the local area.

The majority of customer bespoke and industry specific products we supply are produced in our UK factory and for the few products where we don’t possess the required manufacturing capability or resource in-house we coordinate the production and supply of the component with our various specialist UK manufacturing partners.

We continuously review and improve our operational processes to ensure we are operating our business as cost efficiently as possible. This continuous improvement guarantees that we can manufacture and supply our rubber and polyurethane components at a competitive price whilst maintaining our industry leading product quality.

The type and range of our production resources ensures we retain flexibility when it comes to manufacturing rubber and polyurethane components.

This flexibility comes in the form of:

• Batch sizes; we are able to accommodate low volume one off orders up to high volume continuous production orders.
• Complexity of products; we can manufacture simple single material products up to complex multi material components such as rubber to metal bonded assemblies.
• Lead times; we have the ability to quickly change machine set ups for shorter lead times.

At Clifton Rubber we work hard to ensure that we deliver products to our customers by the agreed delivery date, this is why we are trusted by many leading OEM’s as a tier one supplier. Whilst 99% of orders are manufactured and delivered on time, there are occasions where this is not possible, generally due to unforeseen circumstances or reasons out of our control. When we expect a delayed delivery for any reason we aim to keep our customer regularly updated to enable them to effectively manage their own production schedules.

We aim to produce high quality rubber and polyurethane components which will lead the industry on strength and durability.

We have achieved ISO 9001 accreditation for quality management, which we regularly review and update in accordance with the latest requirements to ensure that our quality management processes are as focused as possible on delivering our customers a top quality product.

Other factors, which ensure we lead the industry on quality, are:

• We will always use top quality rubber and polyurethane materials in our products and won’t use materials with high filler content unless specified by our customers.
• Our production processes have been developed throughout our 40 plus year history to ensure the end product is manufactured to a high standard.
• We carry out quality inspections at every stage of the production process from manufacture to dispatch.