AKRON—Smithers, a testing and consulting agency for a range of industries, is moving into the dry commodities space with the purchase of Netherlands-based Ssp. While Ssp is well-known in Europe for ...

The properties of rubber and plastics are very diverse. ASTM standards provide a crucial role in confirming the validity of the information used to make decisions about materials in industries that ...

NUREMBERG, Germany—MonTech Rubber Testing Instruments GmbH introduced what it claims is "the first automated robotic testing system available to the rubber industry," at DKT2018. The fully automated ...

Rubber is a natural substance deriving from trees, but to get it into its useful form, treatment in the form of a process called vulcanization must occur. Vulcanization cures rubber via the method of ...