Welcome to VulcaRAMix
Curing and vulcanization simulation for elastomer products
We're making the vulcanization of elastomers like rubber and silicone sustainable and modern – with a simulation that connects compound, product and machine before your first real line ever runs.
- A digital twin of your real line – not a drawing-board approximation
- Every formula openly documented – no black box
- Web, iOS & Android – ready wherever you are
Commissioning costs. Every single time.
Bringing a new profile or compound onto the line today means one thing above all: trial and error. Tie up the machine, run material, measure, adjust – for days or weeks. And the data you'd need for it sits scattered across PDFs and paper folders.
Expensive trial and error
Every sample run ties up machine and material. That costs throughput – and money that never becomes a product.
Experience isn't enough
New geometry, new compound, new line: the relationships are non-linear. Gut feeling fails precisely when it gets expensive.
Knowledge no one can find
Your most valuable recipe data lives in a filing cabinet instead of a searchable, reusable database.
Simulation software, not a machine
A cloud-based simulation for continuous vulcanization lines – developed by Gerlach Maschinenbau GmbH, scientifically grounded in cooperation with the IKV at RWTH Aachen and the KTP at the University of Paderborn.
From recipe to cross-section
Configure compound, product geometry and line, check production speed, and visualize cure state and temperature along the line and across the product cross-section – before the first real test run.
Try for 30 days, then grow
Create a company account, invite colleagues (up to 3 or 10 users depending on the plan), and get access to ready-made Gerlach reference machines. Then continue on the plan that fits.
What this means for you
Weeks become hours
You run new articles in virtually, not on the live line. The right setting is ready before the first machine starts.
Material stays product
No scrap from test runs, no wasted metres. What you burn through in trials today becomes sellable goods tomorrow.
Certainty instead of gut feeling
Reliable cure data replaces "the way we've always done it" – with new combinations especially, you decide on physics, not on hope.
Your knowledge in one place
Recipes, geometries and line layouts live in a searchable database – open to your whole team instead of locked in one person's folder.
Free up machines for business
Every test run that doesn't happen frees your equipment for what actually earns money: production.
Arguments that convince
Show customers and colleagues real simulation data instead of promises – the performance of your line becomes visible before it's even built.
50+ years of vulcanization engineering, backed by science
Gerlach Maschinenbau GmbH
Maker of the vulcanization systems behind VulcaRAMix – part of the Rameckers Group.
IKV at RWTH Aachen
Institute of Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen University – researching plastics and rubber processing since 1950.
KTP University of Paderborn
Kunststofftechnik Paderborn at the University of Paderborn – researching plastics and rubber processing since the 1980s.
Not a Gerlach or Rameckers Group customer?
No problem: depending on your plan, you can configure your own machines in the simulation to model your real production – and compare your equipment's performance against Gerlach Maschinenbau's product range.
Hot air, microwave, infrared – and what's behind them
Understand how continuous vulcanization works – from compound supply to final finishing.
Explore the technologyWho VulcaRAMix is built for
Profile, hose, and seal manufacturers
Find the optimal settings before material is used – cut start-up time on existing lines.
Rubber compound manufacturers
Release new compounds backed by solid cure data instead of experience alone.
R&D and process engineering teams
New compound, new geometry? Find out what that means for your production parameters.
Users & converters
You need a lot of profiles for your products but don't make them yourself? Determine realistic production speeds and calculate manufacturing costs for your own costing and controlling.
Calculate it – instead of trying it out.
Create a company account and try approved Gerlach machines for 30 days.