ARCO® Silicone is an ISO 9001:2015 Certified facility that has been in the business of making custom extrusions since 1923. We specialize in producing large and small batches of silicone extrusions using application-specific compounds. In fact, we offer order minimums well below that of other custom silicone extrusion manufacturers and welcome the opportunity to develop prototypes. We work closely with our clients to create unique formulations with the durometer, color, and performance characteristics relevant to the end use of the product.We can supply cross-sectional profiles, tubing, and other various shapes produced in continuous lengths, cut to whatever size is most convenient. We can, also, imprint product information, logos, or graphics on one or both sides. We can design our product to meet any business or military specifications, even FDA 26CFR.Along with a significant presence in the food industry, we serve many customers in the packaging, material handling, and general industrial markets.

Programmable Quality Control™

We believe quality should be designed into the process. You cannot inspect it in with a quality control department, by then it is way too late. For that very reason, we took our best programmers and spent over two years developing PQC with iPAR™. PQC™ is an acronym for Programmable Quality Control. For the first time ever quality has been programmed right into the process. Defects are not just reduced they are being eliminated!

Breakthrough Technology

PQC™ works so well because of the foundation it is built on. PQC™ runs with patent-pending iPAR™ technology. iPAR™ stands for in-Process Automatic Recalibration™. CNC machines have no way to stay calibrated because of inherent movements. A calibrated probe can quickly measure incorrectly with coordinate drift. iPAR™, however, can detect deviations of the machine and automatically recalibrate itself. It works like magic! Putting a probe in a CNC machine is nothing spectacular, but turning the probe and machine into a smart system that can autocorrect is a work of genius.

Quality Reinvented™

Every once in a while a new technology comes around that changes everything. It challenges the status quo and makes us rethink what is possible. PQC with iPAR™ is a revolutionary quality system that uses a touch trigger probe to inspect every part in the machine as it is made. This remarkable quality system eliminates human error and integrates quality into the process.