Rubber testing firms in UK-US link-up

Dorking, UK - Wallace Instruments has announced rubber and silicone materials testing and R&D lab ACE Products & Consulting as North American sales, calibration and service partner.

ACE will showcase Wallace’s materials testing equipment at its Ravenna, Ohio facility and guide customers on the selection of instrument to meet their requirements, said a 19 Jan release.

Dorking-based Wallace Instruments’ equipment, it noted, is used in QC and R&D labs across the world, serving clients ranging from natural rubber producers to rubber product manufacturers.

Typical applications include measuring physical properties such as hardness, plasticity, viscosity, cure and compression set, as well as the preparation, conditioning an ageing of test samples. 

ACE “will prove invaluable in supporting us to provide our customers with the highest levels of service in terms of instrument selection, upgrade options and technical support,” Wallace Instruments MD Chris Norval stated.