Rubbertec

What Rubbertec does

Rubbertec is an Australian privately held industrial manufacturer specialising in the design, engineering, and hand-built production of rubber mining hose, material handling hose, and rubber linings for abrasion- and corrosion-resistant applications. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Campbellfield, Melbourne, operating across five Australian locations (VIC, WA, NSW, TAS, QLD) with a workforce of 40+ employees and a 3,000+ sqm principal manufacturing facility equipped with six autoclaves, five hose building lines, a 50,000 psi water jet cutter, and full abrasive blasting and painting capabilities. Its proprietary product brands — Rubberflex (mining/material handling hose and rubber sheeting), Rubberthane (polyurethane products in 25 Shore A to 70 Shore D hardnesses), Armourtile (ceramic lining systems), and Tec-Flex (wear panels) — are produced across a broad compound portfolio (Natural Rubber, Nitrile, EPDM, Bromobutyl, Silicone, Hypalon, Polyurethane) using both hot vulcanisation (autoclave) and cold bonding methods. The company also holds regional distribution rights for Blair Rubber's lining systems and Rubbersource Inc.'s cured rubber sheet across Australasia.

Rubbertec serves five primary verticals — mining and mineral processing (primary), chemical manufacturing, food and beverage production, oil and gas, and general industrial — with customers ranging from small one-off projects to large-scale national operations. Its go-to-market is a sales-led, direct field-sales model with technical sales engineers conducting on-site consultations and delivering quote-based custom pricing per project; on-site service revenue (spark testing, inspection, abrasive blasting, roller relining) supplements product sales. The company holds DNV GL quality certification, BS6374:Part 5:1985 conformance, AS1627:4 blasting standard, and FDA food-grade compliance for its Rubberflex FG product line. Growth to date has been driven by two acquisitions (Direct Rollers in 2010 for roller refurbishing capacity; T Line WA in 2013 for mining hose and Western Australia footprint), exclusive supply agreements with Blair Rubber (2014) and Rubbersource (2012), a UK oil & gas swellable rubber partnership (2011), a ceramic-lined hose product launch (2015), and a Pearltech channel partnership for South Australia (2016).

Name

Rubbertec

Legal name

Rubbertec

Website

https://rubbertec.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Rubber Manufacturing & Wear Protection

NAICS

Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechanical Use (326291), Other Rubber Product Manufacturing (32629)

SIC

Gaskets, Packg & Sealg Devices & Rubber & Plastics Hose (3050), Fabricated Rubber Products, Nec (3060)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial Hoses & Tubing (Rubber/Elastomer) (IMANALAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Rubber Linings, Coatings & Corrosion Protection (Tanks, Pipes, Chutes) (IMANALAH), Expansion Joints, Flexible Connectors & Compensators (Rubber/Fabric) (IMANALAF)

Keywords

• Industrial rubber manufacturing
• Mining hose solutions
• Material handling equipment
• Rubber lining services
• Wear protection products

Headquarters

HQ city

Campbellfield

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Rubber Products and Linings (B2B): Revenue is generated from the sale and application of customised rubber linings, rubber sheeting, mining hose, expansion joints, conveyor drum lagging, and fabricated rubber parts to industrial clients. Projects range from small one-off jobs to large scale national operations. Both one-time project revenue and recurring service contracts (e.g., on-site relining, inspection) contribute.
2. On-site Services: On-site service revenue from rubber lining repair, inspection and testing (spark testing), abrasive blasting and painting, and rubber roller relining performed at client sites including mine sites, chemical processing facilities, and food processing plants.
3. Material Supply (Resale/Distribution): Revenue from distributing third-party rubber compounds and cured rubber sheet (e.g., Blair Rubber compounds, Rubbersource Inc. cured rubber sheet) as Australasian distributor, as well as supplying own-brand Rubberflex and Rubberthane materials.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Rubbertec designs, engineers and manufactures hand-built mining hose, material handling hose and expansion joints, together with custom rubber and ceramic linings, polyurethane products, wear panels, rubber sheeting and conveyor drum lagging for industrial clients. The company also delivers on-site services including rubber roller relining, abrasive blasting and painting, and inspection/testing of installed linings, primarily for mining, mineral processing, chemical processing, food production and oil and gas sectors across Australia.

Product overview

Rubbertec is a leading design, engineering and rubber manufacturing company offering hand-built mining hose, material handling hose, and expansion joints under the Rubberflex brand, complemented by comprehensive rubber lining services (hot vulcanised and cold bonded), rubber products (wear panels, rubber sheeting, conveyor drums, custom fabrication), and polyurethane products (Rubberthane). The product portfolio centers on the Rubberflex hose and expansion joint product line, supported by a complete range of rubber lining compounds (Rubberflex 40/60/BR/HR/CR/EP/FG/NBR/PC/CSM/SI grades), ceramic lining solutions (Armourtile), RT Type Wear Plates, and on-site services including inspection/testing, abrasive blasting/painting, and roller relining. The company operates from five Australian locations (VIC head office, WA, NSW, TAS, QLD) with extensive manufacturing facilities including multiple autoclaves, waterjet cutter, and spray booths.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Rubberflex: Hand-built material handling and mining hose brand offering custom hoses with various elastometric materials, reinforcements, flanges and end connections. Covers inside diameters from 25mm to 750mm with working pressures up to 3500 kPa.
• Rubberthane
• Tec-Flex
• Tec-Flex FG
• Armourtile

Products and services

• Rubberflex Mining and Material Handling Hose Hand-built, autoclave-vulcanised rubber hose for plant flexibility and long service life in abrasive mining and material handling applications. Custom-manufactured for mining, mineral processing and industrial clients with diameters from 25mm to 750mm and working pressures up to 3500 kPa.
• Rubberflex Expansion Joints Hand-built, custom designed expansion joints from autoclave-vulcanised rubber providing vibration dampening, thermal expansion accommodation and pipeline misalignment correction. Standard sizes from 50mm to 1500mm for industrial pipeline clients.
• Custom Connectors (Preformed Bends and Reducers) Preformed bends, reducers and custom connectors designed and manufactured on specially made mandrels to suit material handling and rubber mining hose installations for industrial clients.
• Rubber Linings Hot vulcanised and cold bonded rubber linings for pipework, spools, tanks, chutes and valves in a wide range of compounds, manufactured using purpose-built facilities with autoclaves and abrasive blasting equipment for mining, chemical, food and industrial clients.
• Pipe and Valve Linings Valve lining services for knife gate, diaphragm, butterfly, plug, check and pinch valve configurations using a variety of rubber compounds, including stripping old/damaged linings and relining to as-new specifications for industrial clients.
• Food Grade Linings (Rubberflex FG) Food grade rubber linings (Rubberflex FG) for conveyor rollers, pressure rollers, food contact areas, chutes and polisher vessels, available in cured and uncured form with FDA compliance, targeting food processing and beverage production clients.
• Ceramic Lining and Repair (Armourtile) Customised ceramic lining service with capacity to spin cast, hand lay or bond rubber-backed alumina ceramic tiles to pipework, chutes and bins. Includes Ceramofix repair compound for on-site repairs and Armourtile large format ceramic liner panels with independently tested ceramic composition and bond strengths.
• RT Type Wear Plates Premium grade 60 Duro Natural/SBR rubber wear panels with full steel backing plate, standard thicknesses 30mm-150mm, widths 500mm-1500mm, lengths 1000mm-2000mm. Used in hoppers, chutes, feeders, truck bodies and conveyor transfer points.
• Rubber Sheeting (Rubberflex Range) Range of rubber sheeting products including abrasion resistant grades (Rubberflex 40, 60, Premium, RS 3860), chemical resistant grades (BR, HR, CR, EP, NBR), and specialty grades including FG food grade, PC neoprene, CSM hypalon and SI silicone.
• Conveyor Drums - Vulcanized Rubber Vulcanized rubber linings for conveyor drums in hot and cold vulcanised systems. Standard hot vulcanised pulley sizes from 25mm to 1350mm diameter with diamond grooved, plain, ground lagged and strip lagged finishes.
• Customised Fabrication Fabricated, moulded or extruded customised rubber products including sleeves, discharge socks, feed chutes, flexible duct connectors, pinch tubes, bushes, mounts and gaskets in natural rubber, neoprene, nitrile, EPDM, bromobutyl, polyurethane, silicone and hypalon.
• Polyurethane Products (Rubberthane) Rubberthane polyurethane manufactured in full hardness range from 25 Shore A to 70 Shore D, including cast material for rod, tube, bush, custom mouldings, linings and spray polyurethane for trommel frames, screen structures and feeder bowls. Available in FRAS and food grade variants.
• Rubber Roller Relining Service Roller relining services for feed rollers, film rollers, conveyor rollers, drive rollers, wheels, pressure rollers and paper rollers using materials including Natural Rubber, Neoprene, Nitrile, EPDM, Bromobutyl, FDA compounds and Polyurethane. Includes on-site relining.
• Abrasive Blasting and Painting Service One-stop lining and painting service with large abrasive blasting plant, garnet abrasive recovery facilities, fleet of trucks and mobile blast equipment. Applies coatings from simple enamels to high build epoxies, polyurethanes and elastomeric polyurethanes in accordance with AS1627:4.
• Inspection and Testing Service On-site service for assessing and repairing tank linings in-situ, including spark testing for chemical applications, visual inspection, adhesion testing, compound testing and defect analysis. Conforms to BS6374:Part 5:1985.

Quantifiable outcome

• Extended equipment life and lower total cost of ownership through rubber lining applications

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• PearltechcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 26 July 2016Rubbertec partnered with Pearltech to service the South Australian market for rubber linings, mining hose, and associated wear and chemical resistant products. Pearltech distributes Rubberflex hose and sheeting, Blair Rubber uncured compounds, Rubberthane coatings, Elastotec rubber/ceramic panels, and wear panels. Rubbertec provides support services, marketing, product design, and supply of rubber and associated materials.
• Blair Rubber CompanycoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 20 March 2014Rubbertec was appointed Australasian applicators and distributors of Blair Rubber Company's range of cured and uncured lining systems (manufactured in Akron, Ohio). Rubbertec completed in-house tank lining training at Blair US and committed to stocking and distributing specialty compounds into the Australian market.
• T Line WAcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 May 2013T-Line WA founder Mr Tony Warwick partnered with Rubbertec Australia in 2013. T Line, based in Bellevue Perth, provided rubber lining clients with hand built mining hose, steel backed rubber impact panels, and hot vulcanised rubber linings. T Line had an in-house blast booth and offered on-site service. The acquisition added over 40 employees to the company.
• Rubbersource Inc.minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 21 February 2012Rubbertec was announced as the exclusive distributor of cured rubber sheet lining from Canadian company Rubbersource Inc. The rubber is a buffed back, pink abrasion resistant compound used in mining and abrasive applications when cold bonded. Stocks are held in Melbourne and Perth.
• UK-based rubber to metal bonding company (unnamed)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2011Rubbertec entered an exclusive supply and manufacturing agreement with a UK-based company to provide rubber to metal bonding systems for swellable rubber products used in oil and gas production. As a result, Rubbertec invested in internal laboratory equipment, marking machines, and increased production capacity for components ranging from smaller items to 12m lengths of pipe.
• Direct RollersminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2010Rubbertec Australia acquired Direct Rollers, a rubber roller refurbishing company that had been servicing the printing, label making, and industrial roller market for approximately 10 years from Brunswick and Sunshine. The acquisition added capacity, equipment, technology and products for roller recovering in all elastomeric materials.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Gates Industrial: Global manufacturer of industrial and hydraulic hose, power transmission belts and fluid transfer solutions serving mining, construction and industrial markets. Comparable to Rubbertec in industrial hose but with a much wider product portfolio and global distribution.
• Continental ContiTech: Industrial rubber arm of Continental AG, one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial hose, conveyor belts and rubber compounds. Competes with Rubbertec in mining hose and material handling applications but operates across a much broader portfolio including automotive and conveyor systems.
• Fenner Dunlop (Dunlop Conveyor Belting): World's largest manufacturer of conveyor belts and a major supplier of industrial rubber products to mining customers. Competes with Rubbertec in the same Australian mining accounts, particularly around wear-resistant rubber products for material handling.

Direct peers

• Blair Rubber Company: US-based (Akron, Ohio) manufacturer of cured and uncured rubber lining systems for tanks, pipes and vessels. Directly comparable as the originating supplier for products Rubbertec distributes under its exclusive Australasian applicator arrangement.
• The Weir Group: Scotland-headquartered mining technology group whose Weir Minerals division supplies rubber-lined slurry hoses, pipe wear products and mill liners under brands such as Linatex — closely overlapping with Rubbertec's mining hose and rubber lining core offering.
• Rhino Linings: US-based global network specializing in spray-applied polyurethane, polyurea and rubberised protective coatings for truck beds, tanks, chutes and industrial equipment — overlapping with Rubbertec's polyurethane Rubberthane line and on-site spray polyurethane services.
• Elastotec: Manufacturer of rubber-backed ceramic wear panels and elastomeric ceramic composite linings used in mining and materials handling chutes. Directly comparable to Rubbertec's Armourtile ceramic panel offering, and listed as an existing supplier on Rubbertec's site.
• Trelleborg AB: Sweden-based engineered polymer group whose Trelleborg Engineered Products and Trelleborg Industrial Solutions divisions manufacture rubber hose, expansion joints, and wear-resistant linings for mining and mineral processing — directly overlapping with Rubbertec's Rubberflex hose, expansion joint and rubber lining product lines.

Regional players

• Tricon Mining Consumables: Australian supplier of mining consumables and wear products including hose, fittings, wear liners and screening media. Comparable as a domestic competitor serving the same Australian mining customers but with a broader consumables distribution focus rather than custom manufacturing.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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