At TUFF TEMP Corp. we have a fully equipped fabricating shop which is capable of producing customized pads, liners, seals, gaskets, and expansion joints to meet your unique high temperature needs. Our on site technicians can provide customized form cutting, hole punching, sewing, and slitting to meet your unique specifications. Our pads can be fabricated into a multitude of shapes and sizes, up to 24" (610 mm) wide and a full 1" (25 mm) in thickness.

In developing these products, our Sales Engineers will first work with you to determine a suitable high temperature resistant product for your particular application (based upon estimated working conditions of temperature, abrasion, etc.). Next, we will listen to you to get all of your particular specifications (e.g. pad dimensions, stiffness, thickness, etc.). Once we receive your specifications, our trained technicians will then develop working prototypes for your review. Upon your approval, die cuts will be made to ensure total consistency and strict adherence to your particular tolerances.

All of our wear pads will be fabricated from either our TUFF TEMP line of mechanically enhanced Kevlar products, or our even higher temperature resistant TUFF TEMP Blended Belting materials. As previously noted, the selection of the appropriate base material for the wear pad is dependent upon the conditions of your particular hot end application. For example, those applications with a significant amount of abrasion and cutting action, such as scoop liner pads on a glass ribbon machine, would require a tougher, more wear resistant pad material. Our TUFF TEMP wear pads are ideal for this. Those pad applications that have significantly more temperature exposure, such as vacuum pads used in the forming section of a pressware plant, may be better served by our higher heat resistant Blended pads. Either way, our TUFF TEMP and Blended fabricated pads will possess the same superior temperature and wear resistant performance properties as our regular tape, tubing and conveyor belting products.

All TUFF TEMP and Blended fabricated wear pads may also be treated with one of our value-added finishing treatments, known as Wear Gard and Wear Gard Plus. These unique treatments impart enhanced cut and abrasion resistance to the pad material, as well as added stiffness. All of our treatments are completely safe for your plant personnel, and all are completely non-marking when contacting your products. 

TUFF TEMP Corp.'s' fabricated wear pads are used in the hot end of virtually every segment of the glass industry.  Our customers' pad applications include, but are not limited to, the following:

Within Hollowware and Container Glass plants we supply our higher temperature resistant Blended material to use as a buffer pad on Pusher Bar Paddles, Star Wheels, Stacker Bars and Lehr Loaders.  We also supply our highest temperature resistant 100% 316L Stainless Steel Textile Products for use here as well

In head to head testing, TUFF TEMP fabricated pad materials have shown longer wear life than many carbon and graphite composite materials. Within Pressware plants we supply both TUFF TEMP and Blended material to use as vacuum pads, lens pads, and take-out head pads

Within Lighting Glass plants our TUFF TEMP Kevlar pads are typically used as scoop liners on rotary ribbon machines. TUFF TEMP Kevlar pads are also used in Tractor Pullers in tubing glass plants