The RH Nuttall Rubber Strip Product Line
Strip rubber is available in white and black dependent on grade and thickness required. Rubber stripping also comes in hard black rubber strip and soft black rubber strip again dependent on grade required. All of our rubber strip is supplied as solid rubber strip but can then be cut from any grade of solid rubber. To enquire about buying rubber strip, please click here.
Our full range of rubber strips for sale include:
- Plain solid rubber strip
- EDPM strip
- Silicone rubber strips
- Viton strips
- Neoprene sponge strips
- SBR strip
- Foam strips
- Nitrile Strip
- Cork strips
All of the above are available with or without a self-adhesive backing. Furthermore, they are manufacture to specific length in strip, coil or roll format.
What do you use Strip Rubber for?
You ca use strip rubber to weatherproof your home. It can line your cellar or attic, deterring pests. You can use it on flooring, or to exclude draughts along the bottom of doors. Commercially, strip rubber might be used in construction, to build playgrounds or to protect shelters from weather extremes. Strip rubber can insulate, soak up sound, and prevent damage. It is no wonder that the UK produces rubber products worth over €4bn every year. Some of that starts with strip rubber produced right here at RH Nuttall.
The History of Manufacturing Using Rubber Strips
The developed world first discovered rubber when they were exploring a South American rainforest and first came across the rubber tree. Unfortunately, you could not get rubber trees anywhere else in the world. Estimates are that the natives used rubber for generations before that, possibly back as far as the Mesopotamian era.
In 1876 a British explorer named Henry Wickham stole more than 70k of Brazilian rubber tree seeds. He brought them back to London, where he sowed them in Kew Gardens. The first British rubber trees grew there, but Britain does not have a climate conducive to rubber tree growth. Instead, the trees were sent off around the world, prompting the first rubber tree plantations and the beginning of hundreds of years of rubber manufacturing.
Strip rubber came later. Rubber was not vulcanised until halfway through the 19th century. While the Europeans were stealing rubber seeds, the Americans were already treating it to produce a finished product that did not retain the stickiness of natural rubber. Once this process was perfected, manufacturers could cut strips from rubber, suitable for use in building, sound proofing, weather proofing, and protection.