The R.E. Darling Company was founded in Bethesda, MD in 1948 as a manufacturer of aviation life support hoses and precision molded rubber products for military and commercial markets. In 1960 the company opened the facility in Tucson where the operation was eventually consolidated. The product line was also expanded to include missile case insulation and high performance reinforced composite products. We work with most of the standard and exotic materials now being utilized by the aerospace, defense and commercial marketplace.
The company maintains a complete compounding, mixing and testing capability for rubber materials to military and commercial specifications. The rubber and reinforced composites can be processed in matched metal die tooling or fabricated using soft tooling depending on configuration and quantity requirements.