DuPont Powder Coatings' Customer Technical Support Department can provide a wide variety of testing services to our customers. The following is a partial list of in-house (does not include tests performed in the field) testing services available. For items not on this list or to initiate work, please contact your DuPont Powder Coatings salesperson.
1) Neutral Salt Spray (ASTM B117-97)
2) Acid Salt Spray
3) Gloss (ASTM D523-89)
4) Color analysis and matching to current products
5) Impact, Gardner (ASTM D2794-93)
6) Flexibility, Mandrell (ASTM D522-93a)
7) Humidity
8) QUV
9) Pencil hardness (ASTM D3363-92a)
10) Specific Gravity (ASTM 5965-96, C)
11) Mass loss during cure (ASTM D3451-92, 13)
12) PCI Powder Smoothness
13) Overbake resistance, time (ASTM D2454-95)
14) Cross hatch adhesion (ASTM D3359-97)
15) Differential Scanning Calorimeter analysis
16) Bake ladders
17) Compatibility studies
18) Taber abrasion
19) Spray of a wide variety of parts
20) Evaluation of a wide variety of problems
21) Powder trials on our Nordson mini line
22) Infra red oven studies
23) MEK cure tests
24) Microscopic evaluations and pictures
25) Chemical testing
26) I.R. analysis (for chemical composition)
27) Sprayability and fluidization of powders
28) Gradient oven testing
29) Holiday testing
30) Transfer efficiency
31) Other tests as needed
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