Laboratory Test Equipment

Gibitre

Manufacturers of Laboratory Test Equipment for rubber and plastics including:

• Rheometers - moving die
• Rheometers - oscillating disc
• Rheocheck + Mooney check combination
• Mooney check profile
• Tensor check profile
• Electronic balance check PC
• Electronic densimeter - console
• Low temperature/brittleness check
• Automatic hardness check
• Automatic hardness check console
• Ozone check
• Durometer Check
• Rebound Check
• Abrasion Check
• Manual Die Cutter
• Volumetric Die Cutter
• Thermostatic Bath
• Laboratory Press
• Rapid Balance Check
• De Mattia Flexon Check
• Cutters - Moulds - Compression Set
• Shore Tester - Digital Manual

Process Equipment

Nuova Ciba

Recognised by many as 'the specialists' in the handling and transport of carbon blacks. Nuova Ciba design, manufacture and supply:

• Bulk storage, transport, handling, weighing and feeding systems for powders, liquids and solids
• Small ingredient weighing and batching systems
• Bag slitters and compactors
• Dust extraction systems
• Bale cutters weighing conveyors etc.
• Nuova Ciba Offer full installation, commissioning and support services

Ciba Electric

Ciba Electric are manufacturers and suppliers of control systems for:

• Complete plant
• Single machine
• Process control and monitoring
• Remote control and data acquisition
• Ciba Electric offer full 'turn key' systems with full support service via modem.

Comerio Ercole

Established in 1885 Comerio Ercole have a long tradition in the manufacture of mill room processing equipment and calenders of the highest quality. Comerio Ercole's range includes:

• Internal mixers, tangential and intermeshing
• Complete mixing lines
• Laboratory Mixers - internal
• Two roll mills - production and laboratory
• Stock blenders and mill knives
• Calenders and calender lines for special applications, conveyor belts, rubberised fabric, inner liner, steel cord, textile cord, fabrics, technical rubber goods, silicones etc.
• Let off and wind up units

Comerio Ercole also offer a complete package for the refurbishment and upgrading of existing equipment to the latest safety specifications.

Prodicon International

Prodicon International generally regarded as the worlds number one in their field are manufacturers and suppliers of:

• Batch-offs
• Cantilever coolers
• Packer-Stackers
• Strip handling and packing units
• Cutters
• Coilers
• Mill and stock-feeders etc.

Prodicon's 'systems approach' is fundamentally an orderly way of problem solving which generates a range of customised solutions. Adopting the philosophy that the best engineering solutions are the least complicated, Prodicon provide equipment for use in an industrial environment utilising varying degrees of automation where appropriate.

Colmec

Colmec are manufacturers of rubber extruders and complete extruder lines of the highest quality, being recognised by many as one of the world's leading extruder manufacturers for rubber.

Colmec's extruder range includes:

• Warm feed, with/without strainer
• Cold feed, with/without vacuum
• Pin-barrel, with/without vacuum
• Extruders for silicone
• Screw pre-formers, warm and cold feed
• Obstacle barrel extruders
• Extruder heads, various

Manufacturing lines for:

• Rubber profiles
• Radiator hoses
• High pressure hoses
• Low pressure hoses
• Rubber coated rollers
• Silicone cables
• Camel back
• Continuous curing lines
• Salt bath curing with/without cascade-sprinkle
• High speed hot air curing ovens
• UHF and hot air curing lines
• Infrared curing lines for silicones
• Microwave curing systems

Terenzio

Terenzio, founded in 1934 are press manufacturers recognised world wide for the quality of their machinery. Terenzio manufacture presses for rubber, thermosetting resins and composites.

Rubber

• Compression Presses; frame or column, vacuum, sliding and tilting platens, shuttle, middle frame, ejectors, magnetic platens etc.
• Laboratory Presses; compression
• Vertical Injection Presses; 80 to 600 tons, mechanical / hydraulic closure, automatic adjustment of mould thickness, 200cm³ to 8000cm³ injection capacity, injection pressure 2000 bar. Silicone feeder, middle frame, sliding platen, cold runner block, ejectors, invertor control etc
• Horizontal Injection Presses
• Closing force 100 to 300 tons, fully hydraulic closure or mechanical / hydraulic with automatic adjustment of mould thickness, injection capacities of 400cm³ to 2000cm³, injection pressure 2000 bar with wide ranging options.

Thermosetting Resins

• Robomatic Twin 400
• For fully automatic moulding of urea toilet seats.
• Polymatic fully automatic press
• For all thermosetting resins, e.g. electrical, melamine etc.

Composites

• KOMPO / SMC - in column or frame, 200 to 2,000 tons, active or volumetric parallelism control, ejectors, floating movable platen etc.
• KOMPO/GMT - in column or frame 800 to 3,000 tons, active or volumetric parallelism control, ejectors, floating moveable platen etc.
• KOMPO/RMT - column presses, available in any size and closing force, sliding platen, shuttle platen etc.

Battaggion

Manufacturers of mixers and blenders since 1918 and recognised as Italy's premier manufacturer for this type of equipment. Battaggion's range is extensive and includes:

• Z-blades with/without discharge screw
• Press kneaders
• Planetary mixers
• High speed turbo mixers & coolers
• High speed horizontal mixers
• Ribbon blenders
• Vacuum dryers
• Two roll lab mills
• Tilting tank mixers

Battaggion throughout their history have specialised in the manufacture of heavy-duty mixers and blenders suitable for mixing a diverse range of materials in all physical states.

Raw Materials.

RDC

RDC (Rubber Dispersion Chemicals) are manufacturers of a diverse range of Premix © accelerators utilising a propriety binder which is compatible with all types of rubber and thermoplastics to offer

• Improved dispersion - Longer shelf life
• Precise dosing - Reduced wastage
• Reduced mixing times - Non-blooming

RDC's extensive product range includes:

• Premix © accelerators
• Micronized accelerators - Premix / M ©
• Custom made multi product pellets
• Peptizers
• Retarders
• Blowing agents
• Tackifiers
• Antioxidants
• Activators
• Vulcanizing agents
• Flame retarders
• Stabilisers
• Resins
• PEG 4000
• Continuous cure systems

RDC also offer pre-weighed solids, powders, liquids and waxes in low melt EVA bags.

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