The document provides information about Agfa-Labs, a division of Agfa-Gevaert Group that offers analytical services and open innovation for materials and coating research. It details Agfa-Labs' facilities, equipment, expertise, and applications across organic chemical analysis, physical analysis, material testing, material optics, and high-throughput techniques. Agfa-Labs is located in Mortsel, Belgium and welcomes customers to utilize its 3600 square meters of labs and 173 employees.
Non destructing testing | nondestructive testingSigma Test
Nondestructive Testing (NDT) is a wide-ranging gathering of test and inspection processes used to distinguish surface and sub-surface deformities or irregularities in sample tests, without influencing the future working presentation of the assessed parts.
Brief
1. Car catalysts and their history
− Element basis and importance
2. Handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) basics
− Theory
− Instrument components
3. Handheld XRF results
− Accuracy
− Precision
Your Single Source for NDT and Surface Engineering Solutions. A leader in nationwide in-house, field service, and co-located nondestructive testing for the Aerospace, Defense, Automotive, Energy and Marine markets.
In addition to NDT, Integrity Aerospace provides Aerospace and Defense Industries a single source solution for conversion coatings, plating and CARC painting.
Non destructing testing | nondestructive testingSigma Test
Nondestructive Testing (NDT) is a wide-ranging gathering of test and inspection processes used to distinguish surface and sub-surface deformities or irregularities in sample tests, without influencing the future working presentation of the assessed parts.
Brief
1. Car catalysts and their history
− Element basis and importance
2. Handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) basics
− Theory
− Instrument components
3. Handheld XRF results
− Accuracy
− Precision
Your Single Source for NDT and Surface Engineering Solutions. A leader in nationwide in-house, field service, and co-located nondestructive testing for the Aerospace, Defense, Automotive, Energy and Marine markets.
In addition to NDT, Integrity Aerospace provides Aerospace and Defense Industries a single source solution for conversion coatings, plating and CARC painting.
Looking for a reliable approach to screen recycled petIS-X
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in synthetic fibers, beverage, food and other liquid containers, thermoforming applications and engineering resins. Depending on its processing and thermal history, PET may exist both as an amorphous and as a semi-crystalline polymer. Polymerization is through a polycondensation reaction of the monomer ethylene terephthalate with water as the byproduct.The majority of the world's PET production is for synthetic fibers with bottle production accounting for around 30% of global demand. The polyester industry makes up about 18% of world polymer production and is third after polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP). Mechanical recycling of PET becomes more and more economically valuable due to the growing environmental awareness of the (Western) customer. The possibility of using recycled PET which will come into contact with food creates the need to develop efficient and sensitive analytical methods applicable to the identification and quantification of contaminants from recycled PET, which would also evidence that this recycled material complies with the terms of legislation. The recycling processes of PET for direct food contact have to evidence efficiency of contaminant removal and ensure consumer protection.
26th John L Waters Symposium - Hyphenated Techniques in Thermal AnalysisKevin Menard, Ph.D. MBA
Hyphenated thermal analysis system allow a greater understanding of materials and processes. This talk from the John L Waters Symposium at PittCon 2015 discusses the history and current state of the techniques
Selected ion flow tube MS - Online quantitative VOC analysisIS-X
SIFT-MS accurately identifies and quantifies volatile compounds. The analysis occurs through a process of chemical ionization in a flow tube.
To analyze volatile compounds, a sample is introduced into the flow tube at a precisely controlled rate. Inside the flow tube reagent ions react with volatile compounds present in the sample. This reaction forms product ions, which are analyzed by a quadrupole mass spectrometer and particle multiplier. The result is spectra, which instantly identify and quantify volatile compounds.
Analysis is performed by a Voice Series instrument, which can be based in a laboratory, on a production line, or in a vehicle. Results can be automatically exported to other systems, such as production line controllers.
We provide turnkey solutions, or you can create your own analysis suites and protocols, including how results are processed and presented.
Bespoke compositions and microstructures from suspension and solution precurs...Tanvir Hussain
Presentations by Dr Hussain at the TS4+E conference in Montreal. Canada 17-18 Sep 2019, Thermal Spraying of Suspensions and solutions symposium + environmental barrier coatings
AAVOS International bvba has a wide range of online process instrumentation for many applications in chemical, petrochemical, oil, gas, food, beverage and pharmaceutical industry.
We will advise you to find the right equipment for your analysis of fluids, gasses and solids.
Process on-line analysers are offered as a solution to the efficiency of plant operation and offer huge paybacks. Our analysers are also applied for monitoring emissions and as safety measurement. http://aavos.be
G2/131 is based on differential pressure method and applicable to the determination of gas transmission rate, solubility coefficient, diffusion coefficient and permeability coefficient of barrier materials and packages at different temperatures.
G2/131 is based on differential pressure method and applicable to the determination of gas transmission rate, solubility coefficient, diffusion coefficient and permeability coefficient of barrier materials and packages at different temperatures.
G2/131 is based on differential pressure method and applicable to the determination of gas transmission rate, solubility coefficient, diffusion coefficient and permeability coefficient of barrier materials and packages at different temperatures.
Looking for a reliable approach to screen recycled petIS-X
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in synthetic fibers, beverage, food and other liquid containers, thermoforming applications and engineering resins. Depending on its processing and thermal history, PET may exist both as an amorphous and as a semi-crystalline polymer. Polymerization is through a polycondensation reaction of the monomer ethylene terephthalate with water as the byproduct.The majority of the world's PET production is for synthetic fibers with bottle production accounting for around 30% of global demand. The polyester industry makes up about 18% of world polymer production and is third after polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP). Mechanical recycling of PET becomes more and more economically valuable due to the growing environmental awareness of the (Western) customer. The possibility of using recycled PET which will come into contact with food creates the need to develop efficient and sensitive analytical methods applicable to the identification and quantification of contaminants from recycled PET, which would also evidence that this recycled material complies with the terms of legislation. The recycling processes of PET for direct food contact have to evidence efficiency of contaminant removal and ensure consumer protection.
26th John L Waters Symposium - Hyphenated Techniques in Thermal AnalysisKevin Menard, Ph.D. MBA
Hyphenated thermal analysis system allow a greater understanding of materials and processes. This talk from the John L Waters Symposium at PittCon 2015 discusses the history and current state of the techniques
Selected ion flow tube MS - Online quantitative VOC analysisIS-X
SIFT-MS accurately identifies and quantifies volatile compounds. The analysis occurs through a process of chemical ionization in a flow tube.
To analyze volatile compounds, a sample is introduced into the flow tube at a precisely controlled rate. Inside the flow tube reagent ions react with volatile compounds present in the sample. This reaction forms product ions, which are analyzed by a quadrupole mass spectrometer and particle multiplier. The result is spectra, which instantly identify and quantify volatile compounds.
Analysis is performed by a Voice Series instrument, which can be based in a laboratory, on a production line, or in a vehicle. Results can be automatically exported to other systems, such as production line controllers.
We provide turnkey solutions, or you can create your own analysis suites and protocols, including how results are processed and presented.
Bespoke compositions and microstructures from suspension and solution precurs...Tanvir Hussain
Presentations by Dr Hussain at the TS4+E conference in Montreal. Canada 17-18 Sep 2019, Thermal Spraying of Suspensions and solutions symposium + environmental barrier coatings
AAVOS International bvba has a wide range of online process instrumentation for many applications in chemical, petrochemical, oil, gas, food, beverage and pharmaceutical industry.
We will advise you to find the right equipment for your analysis of fluids, gasses and solids.
Process on-line analysers are offered as a solution to the efficiency of plant operation and offer huge paybacks. Our analysers are also applied for monitoring emissions and as safety measurement. http://aavos.be
G2/131 is based on differential pressure method and applicable to the determination of gas transmission rate, solubility coefficient, diffusion coefficient and permeability coefficient of barrier materials and packages at different temperatures.
G2/131 is based on differential pressure method and applicable to the determination of gas transmission rate, solubility coefficient, diffusion coefficient and permeability coefficient of barrier materials and packages at different temperatures.
G2/131 is based on differential pressure method and applicable to the determination of gas transmission rate, solubility coefficient, diffusion coefficient and permeability coefficient of barrier materials and packages at different temperatures.
EFFECT OF NANO SiO2 ON SOME MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BIODEGRADABLE POLYLACTIC...IAEME Publication
Effect of nano SiO2(13.69nm)with different weight percentage (1, 3, 5wt %)on some mechanical properties of polylactic acid (PLA) is investigated .PLA film with thickness 100µm was
prepared by solution casting method .Chemical and crystal structure of PLA and its composites with 5% nano SiO2 are characterized by FTIR and X-ray diffraction techniques .
Comparative Analysis of Inkjet Printer Inks Extracted from Printed Documents ...IOSR Journals
Primary coloured inks i.e. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black used in inkjet printers were extracted from the printed document and analyzed in order to identify the possible functional groups using Infrared (IR) spectroscopic technique. Experiments were conducted on the all four primary inks and the results are presented. The technique can provide valuable information if an admitted sample is provided for comparison with the suspect printed document.
GC-7800 is a classical gas chromatograph instrument which integrates the most advanced chromatography technique and national or international standards with the most extensive applications by the experienced experts of Labthink.
GC-7800 is a classical gas chromatograph instrument which integrates the most advanced chromatography technique and national or international standards with the most extensive applications by the experienced experts of Labthink.
The RA802 Pharmaceutical Analyser combines Renishaw's proprietary LiveTrackTM and StreamLineTM technologies to generate chemical images up to 150 times faster than conventional methods, whilst maintaining focus ? ensuring high quality pharmaceutical tablet imaging.
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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
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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
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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