After washing, the foam form is introduced into the vulcanizer stage to complete the cross-linking process.

The vulcanizing press or vulcanizer uniformly compresses the mold while exposing it to high temperature over a period of several hours.

Some spin casting operations choose to forgo running their own vulcanizer and instead contract out their mold production.

The vulcanizer consists of a pair of parallel heated platens mounted on a hydraulic press.

Walter Smilling graduated from high school in Inkster, Mich., and thereafter worked variously as a shoe salesman, bank teller, keypunch operator and tire vulcanizer.

Julius Kiesner was an American tire vulcanizer from Milwaukee who served five terms (1919-1928) as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly representing Milwaukee's 9th Assembly district (the 9th and 10th wards).