Quality Testing

Compounding Solutions has the testing capabilities needed to ensure our products are of the highest quality and meet all required specifications. The range of available testing is very extensive, from the basics of color and moisture content to the material identification of FTIR testing and everything in between.

     > Tensile Strength, Modulus, Elongation: ASTM D638 & ASTM D412 – Standard Test Method for Tensile Properties of Plastics
     > Flexural Strength and Modulus: ASTM D790 – Standard Test Methods for Flexural Properties of Unreinforced and Reinforced Plastics and Electrical Insulating Materials
     > Deflection: ASTM D790 – Standard Test Methods for Flexural Properties of Unreinforced and Reinforced Plastics and Electrical Insulating Materials

     > Density: Pycnometer ASTM D6226
     > Ash Content: ASTM D5630-06 – Standard Test Method for Ignition Loss of Cured Reinforced Resins
     > Hardness: ASTM D2240 – Standard Test Method for Rubber Property – Durometer Hardness
     > FTIR: ASTM E168 – Standard Practices for General Techniques of Infrared Quantitative Analysis.
     > Compounding
          >> Pellet Porosity: Pycnometer
          >> Moisture Content: ASTM D6980 & ASTM D7191-10
          >> Dispersion

     > Notched Izod: ASTM D256 – Standard Test Methods for Determining the Izod Pendulum Impact Resistance of Plastics
     > Unnotched Izod: Standard Test Method for Unnotched Cantilever Beam Impact Resistance of Plastics

     > Melt Flow Index: ASTM D1238 – Standard Test Method for Melt Flow Rates of Thermoplastics by Extrusion Plastometer
     > Capillary Viscosity: ASTM D3835 – Standard Test Method for Determination of Properties of Polymeric Materials by Means of a Capillary Rheometer

     > Yellowness Index: ASTM E313 – Standard Practice for Calculating Yellowness and Whiteness Indices from Instrumentally Measured Color Coordinates
     > Transmission (%): ASTM D1003 – Standard Test Method for Haze and Luminous Transmittance of Transparent Plastics
     > Haze (%): ASTM D1003 – Standard Test Method for Haze and Luminous Transmittance of Transparent Plastics

     > Surface Resistivity: ASTM D257 – Standard Test Methods for DC Resistance or Conductance of Insulating Materials
     > Volume Resistivity: ASTM D257 – Standard Test Methods for DC Resistance or Conductance of Insulating Materials