Bailey-Parks Urethane, Inc. began manufacturing as a Polyurethane Products Company in Memphis, Tennessee in 1969. Our start up was to make press-on tires for the Fairmont Railway Motor Company. Failing rubber tires made their railroad service equipment operable for only a few hours each day. Our urethane tires offered them unlimited operating time.
Soon after that, we started recovering industrial rollers and industrial wheels used in the manufacturing of housing products, such as paneling, plywood, composite roofing, and pre-finished molding, that necessitated setting up an in-house roller stripping-grinding operation as well as our own machine shop.
That machine shop led to a metal fabricating department, which led to building custom equipment for customers as well as for ourselves.
Within our first year we purchased a larger building in addition to keeping our rented facility. We expanded into a full line of fork lift wheels, press-on tires, and even glue glycerin and thykol rollers.
Committed to continued growth, we began making custom urethane parts used primarily in the automotive industry. From the engine, glass, steel, tire, and accessory plants we made parts used in the assembly plants.
We then diversified into serving the grain, food processing, and mining industries.
Today we make urethane products that are used in the manufacturing processes of virtually everything you see. We offer engineering expertise in designing or making anything and everything out of thermoset urethanes. We still make all of our molds, tooling, and custom machines in house - with very few exceptions. We specialize in solving your impact, wear, and abrasion problems. We give away many free samples to prove the superiority of our products, and offer reasonably priced prototyping of custom parts for our customer's evaluation.
Unlike a lot of companies, if we determine what you need isn't urethane after all, we go out of our way to connect you with a company that offers a solution with another material.
Our delivery times on stock items and most rollers are exceptional. Our turnaround on tooling and custom parts is exceptional as well.
We build lasting relationships with our customers, and our ability to solve their manufacturing problems continues to strengthen our associations with them. We would love the opportunity to work with you.
Mission Statement
The mission of Bailey-Parks Urethane, Incorporated, is to serve the interests of our customers through the manufacturing and sale of exceptional products. Our goal is to maintain this through a process of continuous self-improvement in areas of product quality, service, and pricing that offers maximum value.
Furthermore, we are committed to providing a safe and stable work environment for the employees of Bailey-Parks, and to continually strive to provide jobs that allow opportunities for personal betterment.
Bailey-Parks is committed to active and ongoing involvement in our community, city, and beyond in areas of service and benevolence to the extent that is both reasonable and possible.
We further pledge to make every effort to conduct all of our affairs in the most honest, ethical, and moral manner possible as we seek to serve, honor, and glorify the Lord of our lives, Jesus Christ.
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)