INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM SOLVING - LABORATORY ANALYSIS - PROCESS TROUBLESHOOTING

We answer your most challenging materials problems right in our laboratories – accurately and in a timely manner. The wide diversity of our client base enables a technological cross-fertilization that helps generate decisive, reliable answers to your toughest problems. We custom design our approach and interpret the results in the context of solving your problem. Our concise and well-documented reports go beyond a simple listing of instrumental parameters and outputs. We provide you with practical answers and insight to your specific problems from both a technical and business point of view.

ANALYZE provides laboratory services to characterize organic-based materials.

Our services include:

• Materials Identification
  
• Compound Quantification
  
• Product Deformulation
  
• Quality Assessment
  
• Scheduled QC/QA Testing
  
• Independent Product Validation
  
• Failure Analysis
  
• Contamination Identification
  
• Chemical Analysis
  
• Processing Issues

A broad range of gaseous, liquid and solid organic compounds have been separated and identified.

Examples include:

• Volatile Organic Compounds
  
• Fine Organic Chemicals
  
• Surfactants
  
• Thermoplastic Polymers
  
• Crosslinked Polymers
  
• Petrochemical Distillates
  
• Polymer Additives
  
• Solvents
  
• Drugs
  
• Modified/Tailored Polymer Surfaces
  
• Unknown Contamination

ANALYZE has partially or completely deformulated many industrial and consumer products.

Products include:

• Adhesives and Coatings Used in Medical Devices
  
• Plating Resists
  
• UV Cured Coatings
  
• Silicone / Carbonate Copolymer
  
• Flexible Circuit Laminating Adhesive
  
• Composite Parts
  
• Printing Inks
  
• Thermoset Adhesives
  
• Photoresist Strippers
  
• Packaging Film Surface Treatments
  
• Graphic Arts Coatings
  
• Fingernail Cosmetics
  
• Skin Lotions
  
• Oral Mouth Wash
  
• Fragrance and Flavors
  
• Adhesive Based Rodent Trap
  
• Liquid Detergents

Our chemists work with a full suite of modern analytical instrumentation which support all three elements of our core Analyze, Invent and Commercialize process. The continually updated equipment is categorized into the main areas of spectroscopy, chromatography and thermal analyses:

SPECTROSCOPY

• Nicolet FT-IR Spectrometer
  
  
  • IR Microscope for Micro-transmission, Specular Reflectance & Attenuated
  • Total Reflectance
    
  • Macro Attenuated Total Reflectance
    
  • Diffuse Reflectance
    
  • Liquid & Short Path-Length Gas Sampling
    
  • 50,000+ Compound Spectra Reference Library

• Hitachi UV-VIS Spectrometer

CHROMATOGRAPHY

• Varian Gas Chromatograph/Single Quad Mass Spectrometer
  • Electron Impact and Chemical Ionization Sources
    
  • Automated Liquid and Static Headspace Analyses
    
  • NIST Reference Spectra Library

• Agilent Gas Chromatograph/Single Quad Mass Spectrometer
  • Electron Impact Source
    
  • Gerstel Thermal Desorption/Pyrolysis Inlet
    
  • 460,000 Reference Spectra Library

• Agilent Gas Chromatograph/TCD/FID
  
  
• Agilent HPLC/Varian MS/MS Mass Spectrometer
  • Diode Array UV-VIS Detector
    
  • Refractive Index Detector
    
  • ESI and APCI Sources
    
  • Lab Connections LC Transform for IR Analysis

• Dionex Ion Chromatograph

THERMAL ANALYSES

• TA Instruments Q2000 Modulated DSC
  
• Perkin Elmer DSC
  
• Perkin Elmer TGA
  
• Perkin Elmer TMA

OTHER

Other instrumentation and facilities to support sample preparation and laboratory model studies include Brookfield Viscosity, pH, Shore durometers, coating/UV curing, gel time, Gardner color, optical microscopy, ambient temperature microtomy, extraction, filtration, centrifugation, ovens, humidity chamber and wet chemistry methodology.

In addition to its in-house instrumentation, ANALYZE has long-standing working relationships with other specialized laboratories located throughout the US that complement ANALYZE’s analytical services and expertise. We assume full responsibility for obtaining the necessary analytical data and integrating the information into the understandable form required to successfully solve client problems.