Custom Urethane Rollers
Urethane Rollers Molded and Machined in Salinas, California
Conveyor rollers, drive rollers, harvester star rollers and profiled rollers, cast on your core or ours in the durometer the job calls for. Designed, formulated, molded and finished under one roof since 1990.
Grooved red urethane roller, cast and turned in our Salinas plant.What we make
Roller types we cast every week
Every roller is built to a drawing or a sample, not pulled from a shelf. These are the families that come through the shop most often.
Conveyor and drive rollers
Idler, drive and pinch rollers for belt conveyors, washlines and packing lines. Smooth, crowned or grooved faces, in the hardness that grips the belt without flat spotting.
Harvester star rollers
Star and finger rollers for leafy green and vegetable harvesters built in the Salinas Valley. Cast soft enough to move product without bruising it and tough enough for a full season.
Grooved and profiled rollers
Diamond, chevron, groove and custom tread patterns machined into the urethane after cure, for traction, drainage or product control on sizing and singulating lines.
Recovered rollers on your core
Strip the worn urethane off your existing steel or aluminum core, prep and bond it, and cast a new cover. Keeps the shaft and bearings you already own and shortens lead time.
Small and precision rollers
Guide rollers, feed rollers and wheels down to a fraction of an inch for labeling, inspection and packaging equipment. Same formulation control at any size.
Sprockets and drive rings
Urethane sprockets and sprocket rings for modular belt and chain drives on washlines and conveyors. Quieter than steel and easier on the belt.
How a roller gets built
Four steps, all in our shop
- Core. We machine a new steel or aluminum core to your drawing, or strip, inspect and prep the core you send us.
- Formulation. The urethane is mixed in house for the hardness, chemical exposure, heat and load the roller will see. Tell us the conditions and we pick the system.
- Cast and cure. Poured in a CNC cut mold, vacuum degassed and cured at controlled temperature so the cover bonds to the core and cures evenly all the way through.
- Finish. Turned to final diameter on the lathe, grooved or profiled if specified, balanced and inspected against the drawing before it ships.
Once a mold exists for your roller, every reorder runs on it. Most repeat rollers go straight from the drawing on file to casting.
Choosing the urethane
Hardness is the first question. Conditions are the rest.
Soft to firm
Product handling, coatings, star rollers and anything that touches produce. Grips without marking.
High impact and abrasive
Drive rollers, washline rollers and conveyors seeing dirt, rock, water and long hours.
Load bearing
Heavy load rollers, bushings and wheels where the urethane carries weight more than it grips.
Tell us what the roller lives in and we will match the system
- FDA compliant formulation needed for food contact
- Chlorine, cleaning chemicals or acidic produce like tomato and peppers
- Submerged or washed down with water
- Heat above 200°F
- Oils and lubricants
- Dirt, rock and field debris
- High speed, heavy load or tight tolerance
Where they run
Built for the equipment around us
- Leafy green, vegetable and berry harvesters built in the Salinas Valley
- Packing, cooling and washline conveyors
- Food processing and bottling lines
- Industrial conveyors, labeling and packaging machinery
- Airport baggage and parcel handling, alongside our AeroPorter wheels
Rubber track tractor bogie wheels are their own line. See bogie wheel rebuilds.
To quote a roller
Send us these
- Core diameter, finished diameter and face width, for example 5″ CD x 6.5″ FD x 12″ face
- Durometer if you know it, or the conditions above if you do not
- Face profile: smooth, crowned, grooved or patterned
- Whether we supply the core and shaft, or you send yours
- Color and quantity
- A drawing, a photo or the worn roller itself
No drawing? Drop the old roller at any Green Rubber Kennedy Ag branch and we will measure it.
Need a roller cast, recovered or matched?
Call 800-499-1818, email sales@urethanespecialists.com, or send us the dimensions and conditions and we will come back with a quote.