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PEC's laboratory is equipped with state of the art equipment for material preparation and testing of physical properties, and evaluating processing parameters.

Equipment includes:

  1. Brabender Plasticorder with capabilities for plastics and rubbers compounding extrusion, cast and  blown films, rods and rubber profiles
  2. Arburg Injection Molding Machine with mold for ASTM plastic test specimen preparation
  3. Computerized Instron Universal testing machine equipped with environmental chamber for temperature testing with a variety of grips and testing jigs
  4. TMI Impact Tester with notch cutting lathe
  5. Bomem FTIR Spectrometer
  6. Melt Index Tester
  7. GretagMacBeth Colour Spectrometer with computerized colour reading and matching capability
  8. Perkin Elmer DSC (Differential Scanning Colorimeter)
  9. Viscometers:  Zahn and Ford Cup, Bubble, Cone and Plate for viscosity testing
  10. Optical Stereoscopic microscope with video capture and instant printing (magnification to 320x)
  11. Equipment for specialty polymer synthesis
  12. TLC Chromatography
  13. QUV accelerated weathering apparatus
  14. Taber Abrader
  15. Goniometer for surface contact angle and surface energy
  16. Retsch Cutting Mill for particle size reduction with various screen sizes
  17. Sieve Analysis equipment
  18. Coating quality control equipment
  19. Hot Press with controlled heating and cooling
  20. High Speed Mixers and Blades for particle dispersion (coatings, adhesives)
  21. Balances from 1 microgram to 50 kg

Other Capabilities

                - HPLC

                - GPC

                - Gas chromotography 

 

                - NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance)

                - Mass Spectroscopy