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Quality series

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Get total compound supply chain value with Preferred Compounding

  • consistent quality
  • relationship focus
  • comprehensive capabilities
  • technical excellence
  • proactive service

There’s making rubber and elastomeric compounds. There's getting them on the dock on time. Then there’s also:

  • Getting quality right batch after batch after batch
  • Keeping your product on schedule and supply chain short with plants with redundant capabilities in three strategic locations
  • Providing supply certainty through materials sourcing plans and other arrangements that fit your business needs
  • Increasing the performance of your formulas, reducing the cost to achieve your spec or reformulating when a key ingredient becomes unavailable
  • Having one source for practically any compound type and quality
  • Getting support in real time should your compound become difficult to manufacture

As a Preferred Compounding customer, these performance-enhancing and value-adding services are available to you. And we still get your compound on the dock on time.

Total compound supply chain performance

It's essential to deliver consistent quality rubber compounds on your schedule, batch after batch. But it’s just the start.

You have customers and a bottom-line to satisfy. You want to be productive, agile and confident. You require high overall value from your supply chain. And you don’t like unpleasant surprises. Which is why we work to serve your complete compounding and related business needs.

With Preferred, you get more than just compounds. You get total compound supply chain performance.

Preferred News

"Gran Inauguración" celebrates Preferred Mexico expansion

Preferred Compounding de Mexico is quadrupling capacity at its newest custom compounding facility in Central Mexico and plans to add employees during 2013. The news was announced during a grand opening ceremony featuring the local state governor. Read the media release.

Consistent quality series launched

Consistent quality only happens on purpose. Discover how in our in new series of articles on compound quality..

Lock in confidence with MixLoc

Preferred has announced MixLoc, a new initiative to continuously improve compound quality and provide transparent access to mixing data. Get the details and read the media release.

More Preferred Compounding news

About Preferred Compounding

Preferred Compounding is the premier custom rubber and elastomeric compounder serving customers east of the Rocky Mountains. From five locations in the U.S. and Mexico, we reliably deliver a wide range of consistent high-quality compounds.

Five value drivers

We focus on five value drivers:

  • Consistent compound quality
  • Deep technical resources at every step, including on your site
  • The ability to produce practically every compound and polymer base type you require
  • Motivated service
  • A focus on producing value through our business relationship

See the complete compounding performance picture here.

Wingate Partners

Preferred is a portfolio company of Wingate Partners of Dallas, Texas. Wingate was founded in 1987 to purchase controlling equity interests in manufacturing, distribution and service businesses and create value by actively supporting management in substantially improving operating performance.