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To ensure our compounds reach you to your required specification whether it be just a particular hardness or a full ASTM line call out we have a fully equipped air conditioned laboratory available for this. |
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To ensure that we achieve the desired level of dispersion compound can be checked by using a dispergrader. |
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Every batch of rubber we compound is tested for the correct cure characteristics on our MDR 2000E rheologic machines with computer control. Moulded hardness buttons are also produced from every batch, and after conditioning are tested on automatic hardness testers to ensure our +/- 1 degree limit is maintained. |
For coloured compounds colour consistency is checked using a computer controlled spectrophotometer. This instrument is also used in the development of coloured compound to standard RAL colours and others. |
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The laboratory equipment also includes a tensile test machine complete with a computer analysis package, various hardness testers Shore and IRHD, ozone cabinet, compression set jigs, low temperature tester and a number of heat ageing ovens. We are also capable of carrying out swell tests to assess compounds resistance to various fluids. |
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