Your needs: understanding and mastering additives in your products
An additive is a chemical substance added to the composition of a material or product to improve its final properties.
Different additives are found in many fields:
- cosmetics (stabilizers, preservatives, antioxidants),
- industrial polymers and resins (plasticizers, flame retardants, antioxidant agents), paints and varnishes,
As part of product development or optimization, a regulatory change, or a failure, you may need to characterize and quantify the presence of additives in your products, with the support of a specialized laboratory.
Indeed, only a laboratory equipped with state-of-the-art analytical instruments is able to carry out additive analysis in the laboratory.
Industrial additive analysis: expertise and equipment at your service
Our solutions for your cosmetic products
Verify the compliance of additives with regulations (REACH analysis)
Detect and quantify preservatives, antioxidants or stabilizers
Study the stability and aging of your formulations according to the additives used
Deformulate products to identify the exact composition of your formulations
Our solutions for industrial polymers and resins
Quantification of additive content (plasticizers, antioxidants, flame retardants)
Composition testing against safety data sheets (SDS)
Study of the thermal stability of polymers
Development and validation of analytical methods adapted to industrial materials
Analysis of organic additives: BHT, Irganox 1010, Irganox 1076, Irganox 3114, Irgafos 168, Triphenyl phosphite (TPP), Tinuvin 770, Tinuvin 622, Chimassorb 944, Benzophenone-3, Tinuvin 327, Tinuvin 328, Tinuvin P, DEHP , DBP, TOTM, Isothiazolinones, Euricamide
Get a quote for additive analysis?
The FILAB laboratory has a 5,200 m² analytical facility and a team of engineers at your service.
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Technical resources for additive analysis
To carry out these various services, the FILAB laboratory has a wide range of analytical techniques such as:
- Thermal analysis by DSC or TGA
- Chromatographic analysis (GC-MS or HPLC) to identify a volatile additive
- Spectrometric analysis (FTIR, ICP-MS and ICP-AES) to measure the presence of additives in a polymer
- FTIR analysis to identify additives or traces of residual solvents.
Through our three service levels – analysis, expertise, and R&D support – FILAB supports companies of all sectors and sizes in the analysis and characterization of additives in the laboratory, by providing clients with the know-how and experience of its team.
