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About Comcast Urethane

Forty years of
molding urethane right.

A family-owned custom molder in Marshall, Michigan — still making the parts we started with, just with better tools and better chemistry than we had in 1982.

Our story

Started with 1 mix head. Still moving the mix head every day.

Comcast Urethane Corporation was founded by Jim Baldwin in 1982 in Marshall, Michigan, as a contract molder of integral-skin urethane parts, with an initial focus on industrial and agricultural equipment. The original shop had 1 mix head, 2 employees, and was a foundry on the edge of town.

We're still family-owned and still on the same site — operating in a 16,000+ square foot facility with three high-pressure injection machines, five low-pressure injection machines, machine capabilities from 5 to 100 lbs per minute, a dedicated RIM line, and a state-of-the-art pentane blowing room operating under Michigan Title V air permits. Operational protections and redundancies are built into our processes throughout. Most of our current customers have been with us for more than a decade.

What's changed: the mixing is metered and monitored. The chemistry library has grown from one to more than a dozen formulations. And 350+ active parts in production. The customer base has expanded from industrial equipment into medical devices, automotive, furniture, recreation, and wheel chocks, and pentane-blown foam production for select applications.

Jim Baldwin points out another urethane product — sheets of the strong plastic material. They are often used as liners in various industrial and agricultural machines.

Jim Baldwin, founder

Our mission
"The mission of Comcast Urethane Corporation is to satisfy the needs of our customers using the best available technology and materials to provide a quality product with optimum value. We are committed to the efficient delivery of product and to meeting all customer, and other applicable, requirements while continually improving our tool quality performance."
Jake Burnham
President, Comcast Urethane Corporation
What we believe

The four things we won't change.

Principle 01

Engineers talk to engineers.

Your first conversation won't be with a salesperson. It will be with a process engineer who has molded your kind of part before.

Principle 02

Honest DFM.

If your design will fight the mold, we'll tell you before you spend money on tooling. If integral skin isn't the right answer for your part, we'll tell you that too.

Principle 03

Every part, documented.

Every part number has a material specification. Parts are made to those standards from first run through production. Material certificates are received from our suppliers on every shipment.

Principle 04

Made in Marshall, Michigan.

One facility. One team. Every part molded here, not brokered out. If it ships from Comcast Urethane, it was made in Marshall.

By the numbers

The company today.

1982
Year founded
8
Injection machines
16,000+
Sq ft facility
350+
Active parts
The people behind the parts

Every part that ships was made by someone who takes it personally.

Comcast Urethane is a working shop. The people pouring, inspecting, and shipping your parts have been doing this for years — some for decades. That continuity is not incidental. It's how we hold tolerances, catch problems before they ship, and build relationships that outlast any individual order.

A walkthrough of the production process at Comcast Urethane in Marshall, Michigan.

President

Jake Burnham

Leading Comcast Urethane with a focus on quality, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement across every process in the facility.

Customer Relationship Manager

Heather Newcomb

Your primary point of contact from first inquiry through delivery. Heather keeps programs on track and makes sure nothing falls through the cracks.

Engineering Manager

Mark Warner

Oversees DFM review, tooling development, and process engineering. Mark is the first engineer you talk to when you bring us a new part.

Certifications & memberships

Where we're qualified.

Quality & regulatory

Quality systemISO 9001:2015 certified
Air permitsMichigan Title V (pentane)
Material complianceREACH · RoHS · Prop 65

Trade & industry

IndustryCPI (Center for the Polyurethanes Industry)
ManufacturingNAM (National Association of Manufacturers)
LocalMarshall Area Economic Dev. Alliance
StandardsASTM D35, D11 participation

Want to tour the shop?

Marshall is a short drive from Detroit, Grand Rapids, or Chicago. We love showing engineers how molded urethane actually gets made.

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