Infrastructure

• Leistritz twin-screw extruder equipped with Colortronic weigh feeders
• Baumüller laboratory extruder
• Slow-speed granulator
• Laboratory granulate mixers, conveying systems, drying systems

• Various injection moulding machines (Arburg and Netstal) with a clamping force of up to 60 t max. Equipped with the latest measurement technology, hot runner controllers, temperature control units and handling systems
• Various extruders equipped with a fume hood, calibration table and saw
• Illig thermoforming machine

• Presses: Battenfeld (2000 kN), Laufer (2000 kN), Arburg (500 kN) and laboratory press (200 kN)
• RTM mixing system, two-component injection unit and resin infusion equipment
• Hammer winding machine equipped with Siemens NC controller, heatable online impregnation unit and four roller tracks
• Various programmable furnaces, adjustable Vötsch climate cabinet, infra-red heating system, microwave oven, vacuum furnace
• Laminating rooms with all the accessories for laboratory tests and components up to approx. 10 m2

Analytics laboratory

• Spectroscopy (IR, UV-VIS)
• Thermal analysis (TGA, TMA, DSC, MDSC, DMA)
• Microscopy and accessories (light, AFM, confocal, SEM)
• Rheology (two-plates model, coaxial)
• Chromatography (GPC, GC-MS)
• General measurement devices (colour, shine, conductivity)
• Potentiostat for corrosion resistance

Chemistry laboratory

• Standard chemistry laboratory equipment

• Zwick all-purpose testing machine with clamping equipment for a tensile testing rod (ISO 527)
  • Three and four-point bending test (ISO 178)
  • Composite tensile test (ISO 527-5)
  • Composite pressure testing (ISO 14126)
  • Composite and sandwich three-point bending test (ISO 14125)
  • Temperature chamber
• Linkam single-fibre and micro tension testing machine
• Zwick impact testing machine
• Rheograph and rotations-compact-rheometer
• Various tools to produce test specimens

• 3D CAD systems (Catia V5, NX)
• FEM software (Ansys, Abaqus, Comsol, ESAComp)
• Large format plotter