Plastics
Trace Laboratories conducts a variety of test procedures and environmental simulations for the plastics industry. These tests and simulations assist in determining the durability, reliability and performance parameters of materials, components and end products when subjected to conditions experienced during operation and beyond. Trace capabilities are based on meeting the requirements of UL, Consumer Products Safety Commission, ASTM, ISO, and individual company standards.
In addition to product qualification and conformance testing, our technical staff can also customize a test program to provide design and analysis for your individual product application, aimed at reducing costs and time to market.
For the plastics industry we routinely provide our customers with:
- Performance testing
- Computer Controlled fatigue, tensile, and compression testing to 20,000 pounds
- ESD Testing
- Dielectric Constant/Dissipation Factor (Scanning and Static up to 30 GHz)
- Dielectric Strength
- Failure analysis
- Material Aging
- Consulting services
- Corrosion
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Fungus Resistance
- FTIR
- Environmental Simulation Testing
- Thermal Analysis (TMA, DSC, TGA)
- Chemical Testing
- Impact Testing (Charpy, Izod, and Tensile)