Christina Heins

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ABOUT CHRISTINA HEINS

Chemist with 8+ years experience in the Rubber Industry. • Rubber development, testing, and troubleshooting at lab and production scale, including scale ups. • Compression, transfer, and injection molding. • Sulfur & peroxide cured rubber. • Non-curing butyl rubber tape. • Rubber to adhesive and / or to metal bonding. • Experience in wet lab and analytical chemistry in rubber, wire enamel, and pharmaceutical settings. • Microsoft Word and Excel • Technical Writing • MicroVu & Smart Scope-EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING: • Rubber Lab Mixer, Mill, and Press (compression molding) • Rubber Production Mixer and Molding (compression, transfer, & injection) • Butyl Lab Mixer and Penetrometer • Butyl Production Mixer • Rubber Testing: o FTIR o TGA o DSC o Tensiometer o Rheometer o Mooney Viscometer o Heat Aging o Fluid Aging o Specific Gravity o Ozone Chamber o Saltwater Chamber o Brittleness o Compression Set o pH Meter & Strips o Coefficient of Friction Tester o Shrink o Hardness (shore A, D, and M; pencil) o Titration (color & potentiometric) • Other Analytical & Lab Testing: o HPLC (Isocratic & Gradient)(Totalchrom) o GC (Totalchrom) o Identification Testing o Viscosity (Digital & Ubbelohde) o Extraction by Separatory Funnel o Titration (Karl Fisher Automatic Titrator, color, & potentiometric) o TLC (spray, UV, iodine, & oven development) o Melting Point o UV-VIS o Colorimeter o Residue on Ignition o Loss on Drying o Saponification o Conductivity Meter o Polarimeter o Refractometer o Packaging Component Sampling per AQL Slide Rule ANSI/ASQ Z1.4 2008 o Packaging Component Testing-