About Akron Specialized Products

Thank you for the opportunity to introduce our company, Akron Specialized Products. As the parent company of Akron Tool & Die and Diamond America Corporation, we provide our customers with value added engineering, manufacturing and service in the continuous extrusion market. The following is a brief overview of our companies.

Akron Tool & Die

Akron Tool & Die was established in 1941 as a manufacturing center to service the burgeoning rubber industry. As the decades passed and industry changed, our company redirected its efforts to service the 1960’ s plastics boom. We became a major supplier of extrusion dies, adapters, feed pipes, and other related components to original equipment manufacturers (OEM’ s) of polymer processing machines. Laminating, coating, sheet and film dies were just some of the items produced.

During the 1990’ s we added engineering and design services to offer our customers custom solutions to uncommon extrusion problems. This led to our own product lines for strip dies, pellet dies and monolayer blown film dies just to name a few. From our many years of experience, we modified geometries and concepts allowing us to “ crossover” to other extruded products such as food, catalysts, and mastics.

Today, Akron Tool & Die enjoys the benefits of over 60 years of experience and is fortunate to be located in the Northeast Ohio manufacturing corridor. This area is home to a highly developed infrastructure that allows us to offer our customers value added services such as state of the art heat treating, plating, specialty coatings, and metallurgy innovations. Having recently completed a major equipment upgrade to our 15,000 square foot facility, we are committed to advanced manufacturing technologies that will allow us to remain competitive and continue to be a solution provider now and in the future.

Diamond America Corporation

The assets of Diamond America were purchased by Akron Specialized Products in June of 2000. As a provider of single screw extruders to the polymer industry, Diamond America also offered custom designed extruders. After a management assessment of strengths and weaknesses, it was apparent that Diamond’ s core strengths were better aligned with service to the “ cold feed” extruder market. Diamond America quickly repositioned itself to provide specialized mixing and extrusion services to the food, catalyst, and mastic arena. Engineering services were revamped and investments were made to include state of the art flow simulation software and solid modeling which includes three dimensional die flow analysis showing areas of high or low shear and temperature/pressure variations, again providing technologies that exceed customer expectation. Analysis of the resin or resins you are processing is also available (and often necessary) to determine rheological characteristics and viscosity information.

Recognizing the need to further differentiate themselves, the company added lab facilities that include floor standing and table-top extruders for use in demonstration and feasibility testing.

Today, Diamond America operates from a 10,000 square foot facility just minutes from Akron Tool & Die. The company designs and manufactures a complete line of extruders (screws ranging from 1/2” through 12” ) for the food, rubber, catalyst, and plastic industries. The company also manufactures and rebuilds augers, screws, barrels, liners and other related components.

With the two companies, Akron Specialized Products offers you value added input with regard to screw design, and the combination of Diamond’ s extrusion expertise and Akron’ s die experience, all under “ one roof” , should prove to be invaluable in solving even the most difficult processing problems.

Michael Magee
CEO – Akron Specialized Products

Mission Statement

Utilizing our experience in manufacturing, extrusion, and die design, we will provide our customers with specialized tooling and machinery of the highest product integrity. We will challenge ourselves to understand our customers’ process and provide them with the latest in wear technologies, advanced manufacturing, and innovative engineering to ensure a competitive advantage for their company and ours.

Quality Policy

The objective of Akron Specialized Products is to contribute to the success of our customers by providing them with the most economical and useful products that consistently meet or exceed their requirements. Together with our employees and suppliers we will strive to achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction through our commitment to continuous improvement and a strategy dedicated to higher performance, quality, and productivity. ASP management is firmly committed to this objective and inspires its employees by encouraging them to take responsibility for their work thereby creating a sense of pride that leads to higher quality, productivity, and reliability.