EAG has significant expertise in polymer chemistry and offers a complete range of analyses for polymers and composites. We can provide analytical services from basic characterization of materials to investigations involving complex problems. Plastic materials can be found in a wide variety of industries, including medical devices, packaging, coatings, sporting goods, toys, industrial products, construction materials, consumer goods and more.
In our plastic testing labs, we use analytical instrumentation such as FTIR, TGA, DSC, mDSC, TMA, DMA, GPC, GC/MS, LC/MS, Optical Microscopy, NMR, SEM/EDS, XPS, TOF-SIMS and Pyrolysis-GC-MS. Our experts have years of experience designing technical projects and interpreting data to investigate challenges such as:
- Deformulation (reverse engineering) of a competitor’s product
- Establish root cause for product failures such as premature breakage
- Investigate additives in a polymer sample
- Polymer identification projects
- Identification of suspected contaminated materials
- Determine the source of malodor or the cause for unexpected color variations
- Compare good vs. bad samples to understand cause for differences in polymer chemistry