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For over 30 years, Specialty Resources, Inc. has supplied our customers with specialty fasteners. As opposed to a standard, off-the-shelf fastener, SRI supplies fasteners that are uniquely specialized to our clients needs. Specialty fasteners may include special threading, custom drilled holes, custom sizes and shapes, patches, pellets, or exotic materials.

SRI has partnerships with manufacturers throughout the world that produce high-quality, low-cost springs. Types of springs supplied to our customers include coil, compression, machined, tensionextension springs, and more. Our global network is able to provide springs in steel and non-ferrous metals including phosphor bronze, titanium, beryllium copper, and other alternative materials.

For over 30 years, SRI has developed a global network of partners for precision machined components. Whether you need brass, steel, aluminum, stainless steel, or any other exotic material, our global reach allows us to acquire a broad range of materials at a fair price for your product needs.

Companies choose the machining process due to the various benefits machining provides. Machining on a CNC machine or a similar machine allows a company to attain complex components while reducing waste of raw materials. Due to computer controlled machines, manufacturers are able to increase the speed and accuracy of production.

Metal stamping is the process in which dies are used to press and cut, punch, or shape metal. SRIs network of suppliers can use a single-stage or multi-stage progressive die depending on the complexity of the component. Stamping machines at our global partners facilities use a variety of methods such as blanking and fine-blanking, embossing, bending, flanging, and coining to create desired shapes.

The stamping process has many advantages to its use. Stamping has low production costs, but can also make components more durable than other metal-forming processes. Stampings can also be produced at high rates.

Due to its many advantages, castings have been a growing commodity for many of our customers. Casting is the process of pouring liquid metal into a mold or tool that solidifies into the desired product. Castings are generally used to make complex parts at a more economical price. Because of this, SRIs casting capabilities have grown extensively over the past 10 years. Our global partners currently produce castings using methods such as sand, die, permanent mold, gravity, and investment casting.
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There are many benefits in choosing castings as your manufacturing process. SRI has the ability to provide castings in many types of materials including ferrous and non-ferrous materials such as aluminum, steel, bronze, iron, and more. Our global partners are also able to produce the most complex components from small hand-held components to large components that exceed 100 lbs. Utilizing our global sourcing network may result in significantly lower tooling costs when this manufacturing process is required.
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Castings requiring secondary work are machined and finished at our global facilities in order to reduce production costs. To ensure our customers quality standards are met, SRI evaluates early development samples to assure compliance to all customer requirements and specifications. Extensive testing, analysis, and evaluation are performed at any of our several outside independent certified test labs. There, our components are checked to confirm material chemistry, microstructure, nodularity, physical properties, cast soundness, heat treatment and much more using state of the art destructive and nondestructive methodologies.

Mechanical seals play an important role in many of our customers products. Seals can be used to prevent leakages, contain high pressures, block outside contamination, and handle extreme fluctuations in temperatures. Specialty Resources supplies seals for products that include fluid and gas pumps, automotive products, heaters, and boilers. Through our network of global suppliers, SRI supplies seals in many different sizes and materials.

SRI also supplies gaskets to many clients. Gaskets are a type of seal that fills the space between two surfaces under compression to prevent leakage. They can often fill the gap between two mating surfaces that have minor irregularities. Gaskets are commonly supplied from cellulose, rubber, silicone, metal, cork, felt, neoprene, nitrile rubber, fiberglass, or a plastic polymer.

Many of our customers utilize Specialty Resources, Inc. for fabrications. Fabrication is a process in which individual parts are assembled to form a single metal structure. The assembly of parts can be done by welding, bending to form a crimped seam, fastening, riveting, and adhesion.
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Since fabricated products are manufactured and delivered as a single unit, our clients see significant cost reductions in their production processes. With our global partners, SRI can provide secondary machining and sub-assembly in order to achieve lower product costs.
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SRI provides fabricated products that require heat treatment, critical paint specifications, and other complicated finishes. For complex fabrications, SRI develops specialized gages and fixtures for testing and verifying parts.

Customers continue to see cost reductions from SRIs plastic-injection capabilities. Injection molding is the process of forcing molten plastic into a designed tool and then solidified to create a finished product. Our network of plastic injection molders are able to produce products ranging from miniature plastic parts to large blow-moldings. SRIs global partners are able to handle large production runs to maximize savings.

SRIs world class suppliers are capable of producing specialty rubber products for your manufacturing needs. Our suppliers offer manufacturing methods such as injection molding, die-cutting, lathe-cutting, and rubber extrusion. Customers can select from an assortment of either common or specialized materials. SRIs global partners have vulcanization capabilities in order to produce more durable rubber products.