Well over a century ago — in 1863 — the Easthampton Rubber Thread Company was founded in Easthampton, Massachusetts by Samuel Williston. That company, the predecessor of today’s JPS Elastomerics, produced square-cut rubber thread for the apparel and textile industries. Today, 140 years later, JPS Elastomerics has emerged as a market leader in each of the segments in which it competes: commercial roofing, environmental liners and floating covers, and in the production of extruded polyurethane fil...