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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Volume: 2010
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1350-4789
• DOI: 10.1016/s1350-4789(10)70241-5

✦ Synopsis

MR&P sets up compound mixing laboratory

M innesota Rubber and Plastics Corp (MR&P) has established a custom, rubber compound mixing laboratory and testing facilities to serve all of its moulding operations.

The laboratory will include an automated rubber process analyser -a dynamic mechanical rheological test instrument that is designed to measure the properties of polymer and rubber compounds before, during and after the cure process. Up to 100 different compound samples can be tested quickly without operator intervention, says the firm. When required by customers, this enables round-the-clock testing to be carried out, which is important to MR&P global moulding operations.

According to the company, the system has many additional advantages over traditional rubber test methods because of its ability to test under conditions of variable strain frequency and temperature, which reveal important differences in rheological, rheometric and dynamic visco-elastic properties.

MR&P works with over 3000 different compounds to meet a wide variety of customer requirements. The facilities' mission is to ensure that every elastomer formulation developed by MR&P's design and research teams is mixed correctly and that batch consistency is strictly maintained.