The identification of rubber and plastic materials can be carried out using several key techniques and expert analysis to provide clients with a clear picture of the material characteristics. These studies can help with:

• Competitive material benchmarking
• Performance evaluations to meet specifications
• Formula reconstructions as part of a material / product auditing process
• Quality control to evaluate contaminants
• Contaminant identification

The core techniques that we use to evaluate materials include (but are not limited to):

• Infrared Microspectroscopy
• UV/Visible Spectroscopy
• Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
• Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR)
• Atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS)
• Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)
• Gas chromatography - mass spectrometry (GC - MS),
• High-performance liquid chromatography
• Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)
• Thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA)
• Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)