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8418 Sterling Street, Suite #A, Irving, TX 75063 (972)-915-0516 / (972)-915-0518 (F)
E-mail: [email protected]
Resources
We have in-house capabilities and resources for formulating, compounding, processing, and testing. We use outside services where required.
Procesing
- Single Screw Extruder – 25 mm, 32:1 L/D ThermoHaake Polydrive R252
- Twin Screw Extruder – 25 mm, 40:1 L/D Berstorffe ZE25
- Batch mixing – 250 cc C.W.Brabander Prep Center D51
- Injection molding – 30 Ton Battenfeld Olus350/75 Unilog B2
- Film and sheet extrusion -4″” wide Coat hanger Flexible-Lip die
- Garvery and 1″ wide Tape profile extrusion
- Blown Film Extrusion – Bantom Blown Film, Wayne Machinery
- Compression molding – 12″ x 12″ Hot-Cold Carver Press
- Technoform -Lab Thermoformability testing device
- Granulating – Nelmor
- Drying – Dri-Air ARDT-X100 for dew point -40
- Lab Ovens – Circulating air, 2 Cu.ft. Max 220 C x 2
Testing
Physical
- Specific Gravity – Electronic Densitometer MD-200S
- Pyknometer Density
- Moisture content – Sartorius Moisture Analyzer MA50
- Ash Content – Muffle Furnace
Mechanical
- Tensile Properties – Shimadzu AGH -J 5500 lbs (23 C to 120 C)+ Instron 1130
- Flexural Properties -Shimadzu AGH -J 110 lbs
- Cyclic Fatigue resistance AGH-J
- Izod impact Resistance – Cease Resil Impactor to 50 J (23 C to -40 C)
- Dart Drop Impact test- Gardner IG1120 (23 C , -20 C and -30 C)
- Peel strength and Cross-hatch adhesion- BYK Gardner PIG Universal
Thermal
- Heat Distortion Temperature (HDT) – Custom Scientific Instrument, CS 117
- Vicat Softening Point – Modified CS17 HDT
- Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) – Seiko TGA/DTA 220
- Differential Scanning calorimeter (DSC) – Seiko DSC220 with autosampler
- Cold temperature Pipe bend
Surface & Appearance
- Optical Microscopy – 10 X to 2500 X with digital imaging capability
- Abrasion Resistance – Taber 5130 with CS 10, CS 17
- Scratch and Mar resistance – Modified Taber 5130 +
- Surface Gloss – BYK Gardner, Micro TRI 20, 60, 80 degrees Gloss
- Color Indices Photo spectrometer -Datacolor 110
- Yellowness Index -Gardener Yellowness and Datacolor 110
- Horizontal Attenuated Total Reflection Spectroscopy (HATR)
Flow & Rheology
- Melt Flow rate – ATLAS Winplas MFI2
- Steady State Capillary Rheology – Instron Model 3211, wide choice of L/D
- Dymanic Rhemotry – Carrie Mead CSL 500 wiht ETM (max 350 C).
Material Identification
- FTIR – Shimadzu Hyper IR FTIR 8400 + EasyDiff Defuse Reflectance
- ATR – Pike Miracle ATR, Pike HATR
- DSC – Seiko RDC 220
- TGA – Seiko TGA/DTA 220
Aging & Flammability
- Thermal aging – 2 cuft circulating air ovens
- UL 94
- Limiting Oxygen Index – ATLAS
- Muffle Furnace – 1100 C, 6″x 6″x6″
Wet chemical Techniques
- Solvent resistance
- pH and conductivity measurments
- Gel content via Xylene extraction
- Dynamic Viscosity of liquids, pastes, dispersions, suspensions, coating