Testing for Compliance & Quality
Rubber & PolymerWe offer industry-leading, innovative physical, analytical, and construction lab testing services that ensure your products and materials are compliant, durable, and exceed customer expectations.
Confident & Compliant
Regardless of industry, compliance standards are important. Your products must meet the relevant standards in order to be sold and used by customers. Our industry-leading testing methods and experienced team ensure your products are compliant, giving you and your customers confidence in their quality. We’re a ISO/IEC 17025 accredited lab in the testing, consulting and product development fields.
My ACE Story
The evaluations performed by ACE have been critical in bringing new products to market. The formal reports provided us with valuable information to show potential customers.
Chris Wagner Marketing & Law Director @ ChemSpec
Industry-Leading Turnaround Times
We deliver thorough, reliable results quicker than anyone else. That allows you to keep your product development and production process moving by avoiding costly delays.
Repeatable Process
Our experienced staff performs lab testing services using industry-standard processes to guarantee consistent test results, ensuring data you can count on. That means customers can have confidence in knowing your products are of the highest quality.
Consistent Compliance
By testing to established industry standards, we ensure that your products meet all industry requirements. Your customers are counting on products that comply with all relevant standards; you can count on us to make sure they do.
Who We Work With
Supporting Innovative Leaders Across the Globe
Physical Tests
Tension
Tension testing evaluates the tensile strength and properties of thermoplastic elastomers and vulcanized thermoset rubbers.
Cold Testing
Cold testing is used for polymer material performance testing, examining a material’s properties at low temperatures.
Heat Aging
Heat aging testing is used to determine the vulcanization characteristics of (vulcanizable) rubber compounds.
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Analytical Tests
FTIR
The Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) is commonly used to determine the polymer type present in a compound.
Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)
This test method provides a thermogravimetric technique to determine the amounts of organics (oil, polymer), carbon black, and ash (filler) in a rubber compound.
GC-MS
Gas Chromatography—Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) is an incredibly powerful method for quantifying and identifying highly volatile compounds.
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Construction Tests
CRRC
We are certified to several Cool Roof Rating Council (CRRC) standards.
ASTM D6690
ASTM D6690 is designed to evaluate hot-application joint and crack sealants for concrete and asphalt pavements.
ASTM D6297
ASTM D6297 evaluates the performance of field-molded asphalt plug joints (APJs) used for expansion joint sealing.
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Process Tests
Extrusion Flow Analysis
MDR
MDR is the most common method for determining the vulcanization characteristics of rubber compound materials.
Mold Flow Analysis
Determines the flow rate of a given compound by observing its behavior in a specialized spider mold.
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Does ACE Laboratories offer accredited testing for silicone components?
Yes, ACE Laboratories provides ISO/IEC 17025-accredited testing for silicone and rubber components, including mechanical testing (e.g., tensile, tear, flex fatigue, etc.), rheological testing (MDR, RPA), and analytical testing methods such as FTIR, TGA, and DSC. These capabilities allow our engineers to confirm material performance, verify batch consistency, and meet the requirements of relevant ASTM and ISO standards.
ACE also performs environmental and aging tests to monitor how silicone behaves in real-world conditions. Accredited, application-focused testing makes ACE Laboratories a trusted provider of silicone and rubber testing.
What rubber and silicone testing services does ACE Laboratories provide?
ACE Laboratories offers comprehensive testing services for rubber and silicone materials, including mechanical, physical, analytical, construction, process, and other tests. Our capabilities include tensile and tear testing, hardness evaluation, compression set checking, DMA, and rheology with MDR and RPA instruments. ACE also provides FTIR, TGA, DSC, and related chemical and thermal analyses.
To support product durability and validation work, ACE conducts heat aging, fluid immersion, and environmental exposure testing. These services help us develop new elastomer compounds, troubleshoot failures, and optimize material performance for automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, and other industries.
Why is ACE Laboratories considered a leader in polymer testing?
ACE Laboratories is considered a leader in polymer testing because we combine ISO/IEC 17025-accredited methods with our comprehensive expertise across all elastomers and polymers. We offer a full range of polymer testing capabilities to deliver reliable, traceable, and scientifically defensible data.
ACE’s technical staff includes experienced polymer scientists and rubber technologists with decades of experience between them. Our highly knowledgeable team deeply understands formulation behavior, processing effects, and common failure mechanisms. We live and breathe polymer testing, and we’re passionate about providing the best results possible. ACE isn’t just an outsourced testing lab – we’re a true testing partner.
Is ACE Laboratories an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited polymer testing lab?
Yes, ACE Laboratories is an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited polymer testing laboratory with accredited methods covering mechanical, rheological, and analytical evaluations for rubber, silicone, and other elastomers and polymers. We operate using ASTM and ISO procedures that support and enhance the quality of our testing capabilities. Because of this, our data is consistent, replicable, and trustworthy – meaning there won’t be any issues with auditors or OEMs.