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Alliance Rubber Company
Alliance Rubber Company
Hot Springs, Arkansas
About Alliance:
We have been a family owned company since our beginning in 1923 and, because of that, we care more about the decisions we make and the customers we serve. You are not just a number to us. We rely on you as much as you rely on us.
WHY ALLIANCE...
MADE IN THE USA
Benefit to you - Faster service - Fresher stock = Longer shelf life - Consistent top quality - Better fill rate
RELIABILITY SINCE 1923
Benefit to you - 40% of our people have been with us 5 years or more = reliability, knowledge and immediate technical support
INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS
Benefit to you - Fast availability of custom product and ongoing new product development
ABILITY TO RESPOND QUICKLY TO MARKET CHANGES
Benefit to you - Keeps you on the leading edge of new developments - allowing you to be a market leader rather than a follower
FLEXIBILITY / PACKAGING
Benefit to you - Ability to offer custom packaging
FULL LINE OF RETAIL & STATIONERY PRODUCTS
Benefit to you - One-stop shopping allows you to consolidate vendors
VIBRANT COLORS TO CAPTURE IMPULSE SALES
Benefit to you - Provides a competitive advantage as 70% of consumers buy on impulse
ERGONOMICALLY CORRECT BANDS
Benefit to you - Soft stretch reduces stress which leads to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and costly workers comp claims
BANDS ARE REUSABLE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY
Benefit to you - Rubber is organic and biodegradable to protect our environment
WOMEN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
Benefit to you - Fills needs for minority and set - aside purchasing programs
High quality product, fairly priced, delivered on time. Knowledgeable sales associates who want to hear what you have to say and who will respond in a calm and gracious manner. A commitment to deliver what you want, the way you want it, when you want it and where you want it. After all, isn't that really what it's all about? So, from our family to yours, we extend our thanks for your support.
History of Alliance:
William H. Spencer started Alliance Rubber in 1923 in Alliance, Ohio. In March of that year, Mr. Spencer obtained rejected Goodyear rubber inner tubes and began cutting them into rubber bands in his basement. His business philosophy emphasized continuous product improvement, an objective that is as important to his company today as it was back then.
Moonlighting as a railroad worker for the first fourteen years of the company, he was able to meet his growing payroll and expenses. Then during the depression of 1930, he purchased a building in Alliance, OH and hired a carpenter for $.42 per hour to remodel the location. In his available time, he would travel from business to business, persuading office supply stores and paper & twine houses to carry his top-quality line.
Mr. Spencer pioneered new markets and uses for his rubber bands. In 1923, after seeing the Akron, OH Beacon Journal blowing across lawns, Spencer persuaded newspaper managers to try his bands. These were the first newspapers in the world to use rubber bands on home delivery routes. Marking another industry first in 1923, Spencer persuaded produce grocers to quit using string to bundle vegetables and try his rubber bands for faster bundling.
Later, as business blossomed and Spencer refined his product, he opened a production plant in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1944. This was followed by facilities in Franklin, KY in 1957 and Salinas, CA in 1988. Alliance patented the Open-Ring style band in 1957 which set the world standard for efficiency and ease of application.
In 1970, Alliance installed the world's first continuous cure rubber band production line. In 1993, a new plant expansion increased the company's capacity to over 2 million pounds of bands per month. Then in 1997, ProTape, our UPC-imprinted produce tape and dispensers were added to our packaging applications and brought to market. Business took off again with a specialty line of mailing and shipping products; as well as our Brites stationery line joining the Alliance family of products in 1998.
In 2000 our Cable Wrapz and then in 2002 our Gear Strapz and our Price Gun product lines enable Alliance to enhance and update ordinary mailing, shipping and packaging supplies with extraordinary, durable and colorful solutions.
Today, Alliance remains the leader and innovator for rubber bands, paper clips, cable wraps, mailing & shipping products and more. All made possible by one man's dedication to continuous product improvement - William H. Spencer.
Alliance Rubber Company
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