Rubbermaid products

Scroll, scroll, scroll...You'll notice our extensive list of replacement parts goes on and on. It's not because Rubbermaid products necessarily require frequent replacing. It's that the items manufactured by this reputable company are so high quality and durable that they last forever; only small parts of them need replacing, and this means money saved. And there are always those items that are disposable. Sanitation and convenience are important to the functioning of your building and employees. Being able to throw away unsanitary or potentially bio-hazardous items away in Rubbermaid garbage cans is effective. Rubbermaid parts are called for because, eventually, even the smaller pieces can wear out or need replacement due to accidents or heavy usage. At IWP we're committed to keeping them in stock and to shipping them to you fast so you can keep using the items you rely on. Rubbermaid cares, and we care about getting your order to you.

Durable industrial plastic has its roots in Italy. An Italian chemicals combine, Italy's most influential chemical company in the first part of the 20th century, was called Montecatini. The company, which birthed the material used for so many contemporary Rubbermaid parts, was named after a Tuscan village in the Pisa province where it operated copper mines in the late 19th century. It was in 1957 that chemists at Montecatini succeeded in the polymerization of propylene that produced polypropylene. Interesting is the fact that Montecatini at first had trouble stabilizing this polymer. Also, it tended to crystallize as it aged. To counter these problems, the Italian company used antioxidants (oxidizing was causing the instability) and surface-active agents. These gave the polymer a longer life span. Clearly it did, since Rubbermaid is practically synonymous with longevity. Rubbermaid products are made of this addition polymer, so called because it's formed without any loss of an atom or molecule. It's different from the other kind of polymer, the condensation polymer, because the latter loses a molecule, usually of water, during its bonding.