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The custom mixing industry has witnessed nothing but stress for 13 months, as one executive put it, and it remains one of the tougher spaces to be successful in the rubber compounding world.
Couple a pandemic with a volatile raw materials market, lengthy supplier lead times and a stingy labor climate even a major fire, in the case of Hexpol at its Jonesborough, Tenn., plant and the challenges have been numerous for the last year-plus.
Competition is fierce in custom mixing and there is no quarter given by size all companies are looking to gain market share. That said, our coverage of custom mixers in this issue revealed that size pales in comparison to value.