STACI manufactures Silicone Rubber Keypads to meet its customers’ specifications and delivery schedules. With so many competitors in the market place, STACI understands its customers’ need to reduce costs and to make its products more competitive.

By working with STACI, customers can take advantage of Silicone Rubber Technology by replacing expensive, bulky, traditional mechanical switches with a reliable, compact Silicone Rubber Keypad. Silicone rubber excels in the following areas:

• Stability over a wide temperature range
• Inertness (no taste or smell)
• Translucent and easy to color
• Wide hardness range, 10 – 80 Shore A
• Chemical resistance
• Weatherability
• Sealing performance
• Electrical properties
• Compression set resistance

STACI’s Expertise

STACI’s manufacturing partners are considered to be experts in this field, with over 27 years of experience in developing superior products at lower costs to ensure that its customers receive the best prices. STACI designs keypads from the post-PCB design stage and manufactures keypads for prototype and production runs. STACI has a state-of-the-art tooling shop where complex tools can be built for keypads with keys of various shapes and sizes to meet customers’ product requirements and actuation force requirements.

Rubber Keypad Applications

Today rubber keypads are used by almost every consumer in a multitude of electronics applications. Some of the more well-known uses include remote controls, telephones, cellular phones, calculators, adding machines, computer keyboards, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and automotive uses.

STACI’s Capabilities

STACI’s production facilities are ISO9002 and QS9000 certified and are capable of supplying quality keypads for both consumer and industrial applications, including:

• Multiple Color Rubber and Silkscreen Printing
• Multiple coating types like silicone mat, PU, metallic, high gloss, EM, epoxy, etc.
• Laser Etching
• Plastic Keytop
• Plastic Keycap/Rubber Keypad Assembly
• PC Film Keycap
• Phosphorescent Rubber Keypad (glow-in-the-dark)
• Dual Hardness Rubber
• Wide range of actuation force options
• Wide range of actuation travel (throw) options
• Contact Options:  carbon, gold plated, stainless steel
• All Rubber Keypad factories have in-house mold/tool design and fabrication capabilities

        
Reasons to Choose STACI’s Silicone Rubber Keypads

• Tool making facilities in-house
• CNC Milling Machines
• CNC EDM Machines
• Production facilities
• Rubber Milling Machine
• Rubber Cutting Machine
• 150 / 200 / 250 ton Hydraulic Compression Machine
• Auto Spraying Machine
• IR-Curing Belt-Line (Tunnel Oven)
• Laser Etching Machine
• Quality Inspection facilities
• Actuation Force Tester
• Actuation Force Plotter
• Conductive Resistant Tester
• RCA Abrasive Tester
• Life-Endurance Tester
• Profile Projector
• Rheometer
• Rubber Hardness Tester
• Rubber Tension Tester
• Around-the-clock engineering support
• Dock-to-dock delivery
• Just-in-time delivery using local and/or regional warehouses