Product Development and Technical Services

Technical Service, Product Development, and Analytical Laboratories

Our technical service and sales staff are always available to work with customers. Based on customer needs we will recommend one of our existing synthetic rubber products, or develop new polymer formulations to meet customer specific applications. We specialize in solution butadiene (BR), styrene-butadiene (SB), block copolymers (SBS), and thermoplastic elastomers.

Firestone Polymers is technology driven. Our state-of-the-art technical service laboratories can perform a multitude of physical and performance testing on all our TPEs and synthetic rubber products:

Rubber & Plastics Tensile Tear Rheology/Hysteresis Viscosity Coefficient of Restitution (COR) Abrasion Elongation Modulus Izod Impact Hardness Heat Distortion Gel/Swell Particle Size by TEM Gloss Color Transmission	Asphalt & Adhesives Tensile analysis Rheological testing Probe tack testing (spherical and cylindrical) Peel strength Viscosity analysis Shear adhesion testing Heat stability testing Mixing and compatibility studies Melt points

Our pilot facility can create samples of custom polymers from 10 grams to 5,000 pounds to support all types of development activities. Under the same roof as our pilot facility is a full-scale analytical laboratory. Here, we can perform most forms of advanced material analysis:

Chromotography

• Gel Permeation (GPC)
• Liquid (LC)
• Gas

Spectroscopy

• Ultra-Violet (UV)
• Infra-Red (IR)
• Visible

Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)

Thermomechanical Analysis (TMA)

Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

Electron Microscopy (TEM, SEM)

Atomic Absorption (AA)

Contact Firestone Polymers now for the service assistance, research and development to meet your synthetic rubber needs.