ARDL’s capability to mix your compound in-house, prior to molding and testing, greatly reduces variability and provides additional levels of process control. ARDL has a complete laboratory scale mixing facility with BR mixers, mills and calendering capabilities. We have multiple presses, extruders and a variety of molds and extruder dies for various applications.
ARDL’s Mixing, Processing, & Curing Department offers testing to analyze and measure the processability of materials following a variety of ASTM test methods. We can measure viscosity and stress relaxation, pre-vulcanization characteristics, mold shrinkage, extrudability, Mooney Viscometer testing, capillary rheometry, and many more. Our experts will work with you to evaluate and improve the processability of your materials, whether they are for transfer or compression molding, extrusion, calendering or any other process.
Services:
Mixing – ASTM D3182
- Mill Mixing
- 2 Instrumented Banbury® Mixers
- ~1300-1600 gram batches
- Dedicated mixer for black compounds
- Dedicated mixer for non-black compounds
- Brabender Mixer(~40-80 gram batches)
- 2 Sigma Blade Mixers
- ~250-300 gram batches
- ~1200-1500 gram batches
Milling & Calendering
Curing/Vulcanization
- ARDL Curing/Vulcanization
Molding – ASTM D3182
- Compression
- Transfer
- Crash cooling for plastics
- Injection – for plastic test specimens
Mold Prototyping
- Mold Prototyping Services
Processability Testing
- ARDL Processability Testing
- Mooney Viscosity – ASTM D1646
- Mooney Scorch – ASTM D1646
- Rheometer
- ODR – ASTM D2084
- MDR – ASTM D5289
- Garvey Die Extrusion – ASTM D2230
- Spider Mold Flow
