Materion
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CHEMICAL TESTING AND ANALYSIS EXPERTISE

Material integrity is critical to the success of any manufacturing operation. Our chemical analysis and testing services ensure that vital material characteristics such as purity, density and homogeneity are rigorously monitored from start to finish. This allows us to deliver a final product that meets our customers’ exact specifications.

OUR CHEMICAL TESTING AND ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES

At Materion, we combine our extensive manufacturing technology, our employees’ wide-ranging knowledge, and our in-house analytical capabilities to provide advanced materials solutions that meet our customers’ needs and specifications. Our manufacturing capabilities span a broad range of processes, and our on-site, state-of-the-art ISO 17025-accredited laboratories use the most modern analytical techniques available to deliver unparalleled services and support for our customers.

Major Analyses

Materion offers in-house testing and major analyses, including:

  • Composition testing by:
    • ICP-OES
    • WDXRF
    • EDXRF
    • Gravimetric analysis
    • Kjeldahl distillation
  • Impurity analysis by:
    • GDMS
    • ICP-MS
    • ICP-OES
    • AAS
    • DC arc
  • Instrumental gas analysis by C/S, O/N, and H
  • Fire assay
Supporting Analyses

Materion's supporting analyses include:

  • Wet Techniques:
    • Titration
    • pH
    • Potentiometry

  • Product-specific testing
    • Salt spray
    • Alpha count
    • Spatter

  • Investigative testing: ToF-SIMS
Physical Property Capabilities
  • Metallography: Grain size, duplex grain size, coating thickness

  • Optical microscopy: Scanning electron microscopy, including energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy

  • Density: Archimedes, pycnometry, apparent (rotap/tap, Scott)

  • XRD

  • Mechnanical: Tensile, hardness, crush test, bend test

  • Powder analysis: Particle size distribution, surface area (BET), APS - Fisher number, flow measurement

  • TGA/DSC
Quality Controls

At Materion, we are:

  • ISO 9001-Certified
    • AS9100D-Certified at our Newton, Massachusetts, facility

  • ISO 17025 Lab Accreditation

  • REACH Compliant

  • RoHS Compliant

For more information, please refer to our Quality Certifications. 

COMPREHENSIVE CHEMICAL TESTING AND SUPPORT SERVICES

From concept to final delivery, our chemists, engineers and analytical specialists provide complete support for a customer’s product. With more than 50 years of experience in specialty inorganic materials, we provide extensive processing and testing expertise that enable us to:

  • Customize materials to exact specifications
  • Offer a wide variety of materials with demonstrated quality
  • Develop new materials with tailored properties
  • Scale manufacturing quantities from R&D to full production levels
  • Handle environmentally sensitive and reactive materials

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