TARRC/Rubber Consultants

Rubber Consultants offers businesses a range of world class testing and research & development services including:

- Product and Compound Development
- Analytical
- Product and Material Testing
- Commercial Products
- Engineering and Design
- Technical Support
- Tyre Testing Facilities
- Training

Product and Compound Development
To meet our clients exacting specifications our experienced technologist located here onsite work with both natural and synthetic elastomers on a range of equipment on tasks such as injection moulding, calendaring, compression and extrusion in order to develop client compounds.

Analytical
As one of the UKs leading rubber consultants we are able to provide clients with a highly efficient range of testing and analytical services which are regularly called upon by suppliers of polymers and processing chemicals, fillers and almost all types of elastomeric products.

Product and Material Testing
Where product and material testing is concerned we provide a comprehensive range of mechanical testing services carried out under the International, European and National Rubber Standards.

Engineering and Design
Under engineering and design our main areas include:

- Material models for rubber
- Noise, vibration and shock control
- Fatigue and lifetime prediction
- Friction and abrasion
- Creep, stress relaxations and ageing

Tyre Testing
With a range of state of the art tyre testing facilities Rubber Consultants offer clients a unique service for passenger and truck tyre testing.

We have both UKAS and VCA accredited tyre test rigs for endurance testing to ECE Regulations 30, 54, 108 and 109.

Additional services include tyre compound development, chemical analysis of tyre construction and tyre formulations and can provide clients with chemical and physical data to assist them in their product development projects.

Technical Support
Our team of highly experienced engineers and technologists can also provide practical advice and solutions for real life manufacturing issues to include high scrap and rework rates, poor product performance and appearance, poor service life and low production output of which further information may be found at the Rubber Consultants website.