{"id":8614,"date":"2012-09-26T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2012\/09\/26\/best-on-test-virgin-versus-recycled-rubber-fenders\/"},"modified":"2012-09-26T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T08:24:00","slug":"best-on-test-virgin-versus-recycled-rubber-fenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/container-cargo-handling\/best-on-test-virgin-versus-recycled-rubber-fenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Best on test: virgin versus recycled rubber fenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Property<\/th>\n<th>Test method<\/th>\n<th>Trelleborg fender<\/th>\n<th>Low cost fender<\/th>\n<th>Comments<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Specific gravity<\/td>\n<td>BS903 A1<\/td>\n<td>1.15<\/td>\n<td>1.29<\/td>\n<td>Higher value indicated usage of recycled and high density cheap filler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tensile strength (Mpa)<\/td>\n<td>BS 903 A2<\/td>\n<td>15.4<\/td>\n<td>9.3<\/td>\n<td>Very low compared to Trelleborg fender<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Elongation @ break (%)<\/td>\n<td>BS 903 A2<\/td>\n<td>364<\/td>\n<td>278<\/td>\n<td>Very low compared to Trelleborg fender<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Polymer %<\/td>\n<td>ASTM D6370<\/td>\n<td>46<\/td>\n<td>42.6<\/td>\n<td>Higher is better for recovery and properties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Carbon Black %<\/td>\n<td>ASTM D6370<\/td>\n<td>33.5<\/td>\n<td>26.9<\/td>\n<td>Higher is better for boosting physical properties<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ash %<\/td>\n<td>ASTM D297<\/td>\n<td>3.7<\/td>\n<td>21.5<\/td>\n<td>More than 5% is detrimental to the physical properties, ie. less resilience and elasticity leading to reduced longevity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Caco3 %<\/td>\n<td>ASTM D4004<\/td>\n<td>0.49<\/td>\n<td>15.54<\/td>\n<td>More than 2% is used to reduce the cost<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compound test results of Trelleborg fender versus low cost fenders conducted in 3rd party laboratory:Sample: Collected from fenders delivered to a Trelleborg client (ie. shared client).Tests conducted: Physical and chemical analysis, using sophisticated analytical methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-cargo-handling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}