Ascolta

 

 

Equipments for polymer processing (laboratory scale)

• Laboratory mixer
• Extruders (single screw, twin screw, minilab) with different heads (film blowing, film casting) even with co-extrusio systems
• Injection moulding machines
• Pressofusion systems
• others (sample cutter, granulator, electric saw, precision balances)

 

• Rheological analysis laboratory
• Parallel plate rheometer
• Capillary viscosimeter
• Non-isothermal elongational rheometer
• Isothermal elongational rheometer
• Melt flow index
• Intrinsic viscosity apparatus

 

Mechanical characterization laboratory

• Dynamic-mechanical-thermal analysis (DMTA)
• Static mechanical properties (INSTRON) including an equipment for compression in constant-temperature liquid environment
• Impact test machine

 

Chemical treatment

• Polymer processing by solvent techniques
• Synthesys of polymers and fillers
• Surface chemical modification in wet and dry chemistry techniques (plasma reactor)
• Chemical analysis equipments (FT-IR, ATR spectrometers)

Photooxidation facilities

• Equipment for controlled photo-oxidation of polymers (QUV)
• Equipment for thermal, photoxidative and mechanical degradation

Structural and morphological characterization laboratory

• FTIR with micro-ATR spectrophotometers
• UV spectrophotometer