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Mixing - Batch
Mixer (250 cc electrically heated and forced air cooled) and granulator
- Single screw extruder (33:1 L/D, ¾”, SPC
capability, torque rheometer) with strand pelletizer
- 25 mm vented co-rotating twin screw with two feed ports (21
to 40:1 L/D, strand pelletizer)
Molding - 30 Ton hydraulic injection
press (SPEC capable, ASTM, ISO, test bars, 3"x3" GM texture Plaques, machined-in notched Izod bars.)
- Compression
molding press (6”x 6”, 10”x10”) maximum 350 C
Processing - Profile extrusion
(R &D, Garvey, 1” tape, 1/8” rod, 3/8” rod, wire coating, 4” wide sheet extrusion)
- 4" lay flat blown film (1 mil
to 10 mil film thickness)
- Batch scale thermoforming and proprietary thermoforming analyzer
Test
Specimens - Die cut from compression molded sheet
- Molded ASTM (tensile, flex, Izod impact, tensile
impact, HDT, water transmission, flammability
- Molded ISO
Testing Equipments
- Density meter
- Capillary Rheometer
- Melt Flow rate and Melt flow index
- Tensile
Testing machine (with environment chamber, max speed 20 ipm)
- Flexural Properties (with environmental chamber, 1/8”
and ¼”)
- HDT and vicat (Five station CSI, up to 200 C)
- Izod Impact (-40 C, 23 C)
- Gardner/Dart
Drop Impact (-40 to 23 C)
- ASH test (Muffle furnace)
- Moisture analyzer
- Taber Abrasion tester
- Taber triple beam scratch/mar tester (with capability to determine scratch depth)
- Hoffman Scratch tester
- Film thickness measurement
- Coating thickness measurement
- Pipe mandrel bending test
- Compression
set
- Hardness (Rockwell, Barcol, Shore A, Shore D with constant load stand)
- FTIR (with ATR, solid pellets,
powders, liquids, films)
- TGA
- DSC (with low temperature capability, multiple samples)
- Mechanical
heating ovens and vacuum drying ovens
- Limited Oxygen index tester (LOI)
- Permeability (He, O2, H2O) available
upon request
- Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer, Steady State Shear viscosity of liquids and solids
- SEM, XRD,
Dart impact of films
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