Services

DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

ARTIS offer a range of development services to clients, suppliers, buyers and end users.

Our material experts have the skills and experience to deliver successful consultancy services from basic property testing, through complex chemical analysis to turnkey failure analysis and product development projects.

PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL TESTING

ARTIS can perform routine mechanical property tests on a range of elastomeric, polymeric and composite materials.

• Testing conducted to a range of national and international standards
• Custom and product tests can be tailored to individual company requirements

For example ARTIS have previously developed new test procedures for aerosol gasket sliding friction, electrical connection push in force and gas permeation.

COMPOUND DEVELOPMENT

ARTIS has access to an historical formulation database with thousands of formulations to meet a variety of industrial and commercial specifications. If these do not meet your exact requirements, compound development can be targeted at meeting existing specifications, optimising an existing formulation or developing a new material for a novel application. Evaluation of alternative raw materials is becoming increasingly necessary due to withdrawal of raw ingredients for cost or REACH implications.

RHEOLOGY AND PROCESSING

Our processing capabilities can be used to support product developments through optimised process performance improvements, modeling or low volume process trials.

• MDR and Mooney rheology
• Capillary extrusion rheometry
• Bi-Conical rotor rheometer
• Characterising and modeling processing behaviour

ANALYSIS AND CHEMICAL

The analysis laboratory at ARTIS has equipment and techniques to examine the chemical and physical properties of numerous materials and compounds including:

• Complete compound breakdown
• Polymer type
• Filler loading and type Additive and curative identification
• Infrared Surface analysis
• Optical and scanning electron imagery

The complete portfolio of rubber and plastics analysis to support a wide range of industry markets and sectors.

GCMS CAPABILITY

ARTIS have expanded their testing capabilities with the purchase of a Perkin Elmer Clarus 560S GC-MS. The GC-MS can be used to analyse a wide variety of materials, and typical applications for the polymer industry include detection of anti-degredants and contaminants. Use is not restricted to the analysis of polymers with other widely used applications including analysis of contaminants in soil and water. The equipment is fitted with headspace analysis to allow identification of volatile components.