Meet the Team

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Santa Clara, Here We Come: Apple Rubber set for next D2P event

Next stop, West Coast. Apple Rubber continues its annual trek across the map this week with a visit to the Santa Clara (Calif.) Design2Part Show from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21 and Thursday, May 22 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The event will be the largest design and contract manufacturing show in Northern California this year, according to organizers.

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Meet the Team: Nathan Enser, Polymer Chemist

When Nathan Enser started at Apple Rubber as an undergraduate intern, he was a chemical engineering major at the University at Buffalo. His experiences at Apple Rubber, however, stoked his interest in — and led him to change his major to — biomedical engineering. Now a polymer chemist, Enser’s job entails customizing existing “recipes” to meet customer specifications for compounds.

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Meet the Team: Kevin Oberholzer, project engineer

One of Kevin Oberholzer’s most memorable projects at Apple Rubber came, as he describes it, when he convinced “one of the guys from the machine shop to help me build a sweep for one of the injection presses. We took sprockets, bicycle chain, a roller with rack and pinion to make a roller sweep that fit within the shroud of the press. This contraption allowed us to run many high volume O-ring projects automatically and cut the cycle time in half.”

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