Recently, Blachford RP in Kings Mountain, NC was awarded the Gold Achievement 2024 Safety Award and the 2024 ARPM 3rd Place Best Practice Safety Award by the Association for Rubber Products Manufacturers (ARPM). Winners were honored during the 2024 Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Summit in early August. The awards are based on data repor… Continue Reading Blachford RP Wins Two ARPM Safety Awards
Milcut Incorporated and Blachford Investments, Inc. are thrilled to announce that Blachford has purchased Milcut, effective March 7th, 2022. Blachford intends to retain all employees, and Milcut products will continue to be manufactured at the Menomonee Falls, WI location, and the company will still operate as Milcut. With this acquisition, Milc… Continue Reading Blachford Acoustics Group Acquires Milcut Inc.
In recent years, new techniques for measuring the dispersion of fillers in rubber compounds have grown. These methods include dynamic mechanical analyzers (DMA) such as the RPA 2000 and the Dispergrader. There have been many studies to determine how to use these methods for the characterization of uncured compounds. Both methods have grown in… Continue Reading Optimizing the Filler Dispersion from a Rubber Mixer using a DMA and Optical Methods