laboratory material testing
essential for maintaining quality, safety, and reliability in products
Material Testing Laboratory
What is material testing?
Material testing is the process of evaluating the mechanical, physical, and thermal properties of materials to ensure they meet required performance, safety, and regulatory standards. It helps manufacturers understand how materials behave under real-world conditions such as stress, temperature, and impact.
Material testing is essential for:
- Product safety and compliance
- Quality assurance
- Performance validation
- Failure prevention
- Research and development
What Materials Do We Test?
We work with a wide range of materials across multiple industries:
- Plastics and polymers
- Composites
- Rubber and elastomers
- Metals
- Packaging materials
Types of Material Testing We Offer
We provide a comprehensive range of material testing services to support product development, compliance, and investigation.
Mechanical Testing
Mechanical testing evaluates how materials respond to applied forces.
- Tensile testing (strength, elongation, modulus)
- Flexural testing
- Compression testing
- Impact testing
- Hardness testing
Thermal Testing
Thermal testing assesses how materials behave under temperature changes.
Physical Testing
Physical testing measures general material characteristics.
Biodegradable Plastic Testing
Over recent years the use of biodegradable and bioplastic products has significantly increased to replace single-use plastics. Impact Solutions can carry out compostability, ecotoxicity, disintegration, and material characterisation testing to investigate biodegradable parameters.
Mechanical Testing
The mechanical properties of materials are fundamental to understanding their behaviours under various conditions and areas of use. You can alter and tune these properties using a vast array of additives like mineral fillers, lubricants, plasticisers, pigments, anti-oxidants, and fibers for optimum performance.
Thermal Analysis Testing
Thermal properties of plastics strongly depend on the molecular structure and are critical to understanding how the material behaves. Typical phase transitions or thermoplastic resins are glass transition, melting of crystallites, and thermal degradation of macromolecular chains.
Material Analysis
Material Analysis assesses whether products meet specifications and determines their properties to understand how they will react to a given environment. During its service period, a product is constantly affected by elements such as abrasion, impact, corrosive chemicals, and fire, which can affect its service life and cause early failure.
