Wabtec Rubber Products was one of the pioneers in fabric-reinforced rubber. In today’s world, we partner with our customers who demand higher speed, greater efficiency, more durability and greater precision than ever before while maintaining the highest standard of quality in their products. We remain at the forefront of rubber technology and continue to aggressively develop, new applications to solve our customers' problems. We've patented new composites and upgraded existing compounds to outperform industry standards. Often our efforts have doubled or tripled the service of life of a key component. This is what "Research & Development" is to us: improving the elastomeric component so it, in turn, can help our customers improve their products.