We offer specialized testing and consulting services for polymers and plastics, ensuring that your products meet industry standards for safety and performance. Our expertise supports the development, quality assurance, and global market entry of your polymer and plastic solutions.
Polymer Testing: Navigating Challenges and Enhancing Performance
Polymer testing is crucial in addressing the various challenges encountered in the polymers and plastics supply chains. This includes tackling issues related to safety, quality, recycling, processability, development, biodegradability, regulatory compliance, and performance. Whether you are involved in providing base chemicals, additives, converting, compounding, or end use, our polymer laboratory services are designed to help you address these challenges, enhancing your commercial edge.
With extensive experience in plastic testing across diverse industry applications, Eurolab's scientists are equipped to assist in improving and qualifying materials and products. Our specialized polymer lab network offers insights into your material’s properties and composition, helping you assess materials for specific applications and ensuring they meet performance and regulatory standards.
Circular Economy Solutions for Plastics
Eurolab supports the recycled plastics value chain through, our platform dedicated to assurance, testing, and certification services for recycled materials. We assist brands, recycling companies, polymer producers, packaging businesses, and other stakeholders in advancing recycled plastic development and promoting a circular economy.
Physical and Mechanical Testing of Plastics
Understanding material properties and how to test them is key for matching a polymer’s attributes to its intended application, while meeting performance and regulatory standards. Our polymer testing services cover physical, thermal, rheological, optical, aging, barrier, surface, flammability, and mechanical properties, helping you determine if your raw materials or polymers meet specifications and assessing their suitability, degradation, and aging.
Polymers and Plastics Chemical Testing
Our polymer analysis team conducts a range of tests to understand the chemical properties and composition of polymers, including molecular weight, structure, end groups, unreacted monomers, co-polymer content, and catalyst residues. We also provide advice on formulation development and polymer additives, perform competitor material analysis, and generate data for regulatory submissions.
Polymer Regulatory and Consulting Services
Eurolab helps navigate the complex regulatory landscape with testing of polymer materials and articles. Our regulatory consultants are experts in industry regulations and standards, including food contact materials, ASTM, restricted substances, automotive guidelines, OEM specifications, emission standards, import regulations, and toy manufacture legislation. We hold various industry and customer-specific certifications, including ISO, Nadcap, GLP, and GMP.
Polymer Product Processing Development Support
Our laboratory-scale polymer processing facility supports product and process development from raw material selection and development to compounding, conversion, prototyping, and final testing. Our experts assist in every stage to ensure your product meets desired specifications and performance criteria.
Polymers and plastics are integral to numerous aspects of modern life, revolutionizing consumer products and industrial applications, including aerospace, automotive, electronics, medical, food contact, and packaging. Eurolab's polymer testing labs offer the specialized industry knowledge necessary to advance product development, ensure compliance, and achieve successful market launches.
By focusing on quality, safety, sustainability, and performance, Eurolab helps you identify and mitigate risks in your polymer and plastics operations, supply chains, and business processes.