Rubber Consultants works in a wide range of industry sectors - automotive, medical/pharmaceutical, railway, construction, civil engineering, aerospace, oil & gas and alternative energy. Staff regularly participate in international exhibitions covering these sectors, providing opportunities to meet new and existing clients and to keep up to date with current trends.

Information about Rubber Consultants’ extensive range of facilities including testing, analysis, compounding and product design in polymers, elastomers and natural synthetic rubbers, is available at all exhibition stands and staff can put you in contact with the relevant experts at our laboratories.

In 2007 we exhibited at several major exhibitions in Europe including European Automotive Components Expo (Stuttgart) and Elmia Subcontractor in Sweden.

In 2008 you will find us on Stand 6007 at Tire Technology Expo, to be held in Cologne in Germany from 19th-21st February. This event is Europe’s only dedicated tyre design and tyre manufacturing exhibition and conference.

We will be promoting the comprehensive independent testing facilities at our site which are UKAS-accredited for endurance testing of commercial vehicle tyres to ECE regulations. The laboratory also has 'technical service' status allowing the Consultancy to carry out type approval testing of retreaded truck tyres under European ECE Regulation 109 without the need for the retreader to carry the additional cost of a test witness.

Three tyre testing rigs are available to clients. The first is a commercial rig, for truck tyre endurance testing to ECE regulations 54 and 109 and rolling resistance testing to ISO 9948, at a maximum load of 5000kg and speed of 65mph. The second is a four-station Akron Standard passenger tyre rig which measures endurance to ECE regulations 30 and 108 at a maximum of load of 2000kg per stand and 150mph. The third rig, a two-station rig of higher load capacity, was designed and assembled in-house and is used primarily to test to ECE regulation 109. This rig has a maximum load of 7000kg and a maximum speed of 60mph.

The consultancy also carries out endurance testing of retreaded tyres, an area of work that has seen a significant increase over the past few years, due to the introduction of legislation in the UK to enforce conformity with the EC retreaded tyre Directive. This requires all retreaded tyres to go through the EC regulation type approval process already applicable to new tyres for a number of years

For further information please contact Paul Brown.