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Agfa-Gevaert Group
Specialty Products
7%
Graphics
53%
HealthCare
40%
Parent Company
Corporate Centre
Agfa-Gevaert Group
Agfa
Graphics
Agfa
HealthCare
Agfa
Materials
Specialty
Products
Sales per business group
Other
Prepress
No 1-2
HealthCare
No 1-2
Europe
55%
NAFTA
22%
Latin America
7%
Asia and ROW
16%
Sales by region
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Agfa-Materials
Film, chemicals, inks for all BU’s
Specialty Products
Functional Foils
Synthetic Paper, Identity & Security, backsheet for PV
Printed Electronics
PCB Films & Inks, conductive coatings, conductive Inks
Industrial Inks
Classic Film
NDT-, Aerial-, Micro- and Ciné-films
R&D :
Materials Technology Centre (MTC)
Open R&D platform, accessible for all BU’s and for third parties
Agfa-Labs ∈ MTC
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Materials Technology Centre
Analytical competences
Organic and Inorganic Analysis
Colloids, Surfaces and Particles
Thermal Analysis
Microscopy and Material Optics
High Throughput Techniques and
Mechanical Testing
Climate Testing and Weathering
Molecular Ingredients
Sourcing, design and synthesis
Functional polymers
Dispersants
Dyes
Pigments
Functional ingredients
Structure – activity relation
Formulations and dispersions
Formulation discovery
Structure – activity relation
Dispersion technology
Process scale-up
Pilot Lab
Reaction calorimetry
REACH
5. Frank Ruttens, March 20115
Agfa-Labs : Open Innovation Platform for
Materials & Coating Research
De-formulationand
ReversedEngineering
Address your request to the Open Innovation platform at Agfa-Labs:
Ad-hoc or Repeated Support Joint Projects
Functional Chemicals
FunctionalDepositions
FunctionalFormulations
HighThroughput
Techniques
Advanced Analysis and
Troubleshooting
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Advanced Analytical Services
Reach new heights of
performance
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Advanced Analytical Services
Materials Analysis and Testing
•Specialized in chemical and
physical analytics of organics
•Micro-scale analysis (laterally and
in-depth)
Contaminant Identification
•Determination of traces of
contaminants and impurities
•In both products and production
processes
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Advanced Analytical Services
Trouble shooting and Failure
Analysis
•In both production processes and
products
•Specialized in organic matter
High Throughput Analytics
•Hansen Solubility Parameters
•spectral PCA Databases
•DoE analysis
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Advanced Analytical Services
Deformulation and Re-Engineering
•for benchmarking
•For litigation cases
•for component replacement (e.g.
obsolete or banned products)
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Advanced Analytical Services
Sharing knowledge,
achieving excellence
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Agfa-Labs – Who are we?
3600 m2 digital printing and coating labs
Inkjet-, screen- and offset printing
from lab to pilot scale
High Throughput lab for fast screening
of printing and coating
Solution based coating lab from lab to
pilot scale and industrial scale
173 Co-workers (= 153 FTE)
39 Researchers (PhD level)
106 Lab-Assistants
28 Blue Collar
3600 m2 Analytical Labs
Organic and Inorganic Analysis
Colloids, Surfaces and Particles
Thermal Analysis
Microscopy and Material Optics
Mechanical Testing
Climate Testing and Weathering
3000 m2 Chemical Labs
Sourcing
Polymers
Dye and Pigments
Dispersions and Formulations
Upscaling & Pilot Lab
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Agfa-Labs – Who are we?
3600 m2 digital printing and coating labs
Inkjet-, screen- and offset printing
from lab to pilot scale
High Throughput lab for fast screening
of printing and coating
Solution based coating lab from lab to
pilot scale and industrial scale
173 Co-workers (= 153 FTE)
39 Researchers (PhD level)
106 Lab-Assistants
28 Blue Collar
3600 m2 Analytical Labs
Organic and Inorganic Analysis
Colloids, Surfaces and Particles
Thermal Analysis
Microscopy and Material Optics
Mechanical Testing
Climate Testing and Weathering
3000 m2 Chemical Labs
Sourcing
Polymers
Dye and Pigments
Dispersions and Formulations
Upscaling & Pilot Lab
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Organic and Inorganic Chemical Analysis
Equipment
WDXRF, Micro-XRF, XRD and HT-XRD (high temperature) or GA-XRD (grazing angle)
ICP-OES and Ion Chromatography (anions, cations)
GC/MS coupling with quadrupole systems incl. acquisition of EI, PCI and NCI
Direct Exposure Probe MS and Direct Insert Probe MS with EI, PCI and NCI modes
HPLC/MS coupling with time of flight mass spectrometers for high-resolution MS
HPLC/APCI and HPLC/ESI ionization in combination with MS (quadupole), MSn (Iontrap)
and TOF-MS (Time of Flight) with complementary UV-VIS and fluorescence
TLC/UV-VIS/MS Interface for direct measurements of separated compounds on TLC-
Plates or other soluble components on surfaces
Thermodesorption- and Pyrolyse GCMS Interfaces
GPC (SEC) coupled with DAD and RI or triple-SEC detection for polymer characterization
FTIR (with microscopy, Split Pea, ATR, HATR, micro ATR, Circle cell, Hot Stage,…) and
Raman product identifications for QA/QC and research
300, 400 and 600 MHz NMR spectrometers equipped with sample changers
HPLC/GPC-SPE-NMR set up
TLC-NMR for direct measurements of separated compounds on TLC plates
Surface analysis tools (XPS, TOF-SIMS, LA-ICPMS, ICP-MS, ...)
New high-end WDXRF
spectrometer Axios
mAX (PANalytical)
New GC with dynamic
headspace, cooled
injection, cryotrap and
autosampling to boost
VOC-analysis
FTIR-mapping with focal
plane array detection :
4096 spectra in less
than a minute!
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Organic and Inorganic Chemical Analysis
Applications
Material characterization
Root cause analysis of failures in products or production
processes
Purity determination, quantification of components
Identification and structure elucidation
Fast screening MS for VOC’s
Fingerprinting complex mixtures, formulations, coatings wrt batch
quality
Cross link density in cured networks
Reaction monitoring
Reversed engineering of (competitor) materials
Feeding analytical libraries by hight throughput analytics (HSP,
PCA)
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Physical and physicochemical Analysis
Equipment
Electron microscopy (SEM and TEM) and microanalysis (EDX)
Sample preparation methods for microscopy, e.g. (ultra)microtomy
Stylus profilometry and white-light interferometry
Capillary viscosimetry, shear and extensional rheometry
Electrokinetic analysis, calorimetry, sedimentometry, quartz
crystal microbalance
Hansen Solubility Parameters
Particle sizing in aqueous and non-aqueous media, gas adsorption
techniques
Wilhelmy-balance, MaximumBubble pressure tensiometer,
pendant drop shape analysis
Contact angle and surface free energy calculation
DMA, TMA, mDSC, TGA-DTA, TGA-MS, Reaction calorimetry
We have unique expertise in
experimental determination of
HSP. Recommended by Dr.
Hansen himself on
www.hansen-solubility.com
We are a qualified partner and
reference laboratory of the
IRMM, a joint research centre
of the European Commission
and of FZ Jülich!
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Physical and physicochemical Analysis
Applications
Check colloidal stability of dispersions
Measure wetting behaviour of any liquid on any substrate
Measure visco-elastic properties of liquids and solids
Characterize thermal behaviour of compounds and materials
Characterize phase transitions
Measure coating thickness
Measure particles size and shape
Quantify topography and surface roughness
Characterize inner microstructure and composition of materials
Optical microscopy and micro-spectrophotometry
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Material Testing
Equipment
Surface conductivity
Friction, adhesion and abrasion testing. Scratch sensitivity
Micro-swelling and vapor sorption
Tensile, flexible and friction testing (INSTRON 4469)
Weatherometers, Xe-arc and fluorescent light fading units
T/%RH controlled test chambers
Ozone test chamber
Applications
Durability and stability of material
Shelf-life (Arrhenius testing)
Failure and and fatigue testing
18. Frank Ruttens, March 201118
Material Optics
Equipment
UV/VIS/NIR photometry (250 – 2500 nm) on liquids and solids
with different measurement geometry
Colorimetric imaging goniometer
Hand-held and bench-top devices for color, gloss and haze
Calibrated UV/VIS spectroradiometers (250 – 800 nm)
UV/VIS fluorescence spectroscopy
Applications
Spectral reflection, transmission, absorption, haze
Measure colorimetric BSDF
Measure color differences in terms of CIE L*a*b*
Analysis of light transport in materials
Determine optical brightener effect
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High Throughput Techniques
HT Formulation and Deposition:
Formulation techniques for powders
Formulation techniques for liquids
Coating techniques
Spraying technique
Jetting techniques
HT Screening of Formulation
Optical characterization (transmission and reflection)
Particle sizing
Surface Tension
Viscosity
Scratch resistance
Abrasion
Fatigue testing
Filtration
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Agfa-Labs: contact us
Newsletter www.agfa-labs.com LinkedIn
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Agfa-Labs: Where we are…
Mail :
Agfa-Labs
Customer Service (3190)
Agfa-Gevaert NV
Septestraat 27
2640 Mortsel /Belgium
Web: www.agfa-labs.com
E-mail: info@agfa-labs.com
Phone: +32 (0)3 444 3190
Fax: +32 (0)3 444 3299
