Other Analytical Services

Smithers Rapra's UKAS accredited laboratories provide techniques to examine the chemical properties of numerous materials & compounds used in the healthcare sector: base polymers, compounds, additives, adhesives, inks, lacquers, laminate films & coatings.

Smithers Rapra has a range of specialist services & techniques that can be commissioned independently or combined in a comprehensive consultancy project as required. These analytical services typically support the following activities throughout the product lifecycle:

• identification of rubber & plastic materials
• analysis of materials used in products
• conformance checking of materials to your specification

The principle analytical techniques used at Smithers Rapra include:

• Spectroscopic
• FT-IR
• infrared microscopy
• UV/Vis spectroscopy
• Chromatographic
• HPLC, GC, GC-MS & LC-MS
• Thermal
• DSC, TGA, DMTA & thermal diffusivity
• a range of wet chemical & other general, specialist or miscellaneous techniques;
• Characterisation of polymer molecular weight distributions
• gel permeation or size exclusion chromatography (GPC or SEC)