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Filab, analysis and expertise laboratory
Chemical analysis
Characterisation of materials
Problem solving
Metallurgical analysis in a laboratory
Your needs: to optimize the manufacturing process of your metallic products and analyze defects.
As steel producers, smelters, manufacturers and suppliers you are subject to important strategic challenges that require you to monitor the quality of your materials to optimize your industrial processes (costs, timeframe, wastage).
From the start of the designing process to the product being put on the market you will face multiple challenges such as:
- Inspection of raw materials
- Substitution of metallic alloys
- Understanding and anticipating the behavior of materials in the environment they are used in
- The effectiveness of surface treatments
- Optimization of manufacturing and machining processes to reduce the risk of defects
To assist you in overcoming these challenges the support of a reliable laboratory with high added technical value will enable you to better understand the changes in the metallurgical sector and to allow your business to become more efficient.
For more than 30 years, the FILAB laboratory has been offering high added-value metallurgical analysis services to several thousand customers. Some of our analysis services are COFRAC ISO 17025, Pr 6000 and Pr 7210 accredited by Safran or linked to our customer approvals.
Thanks to its experience and its cutting-edge analytical fleet, the FILAB laboratory has a wide range of tools specific to the metallurgical sector, enabling it to provide the following services:
Our solution: to assist industrialists in the metallurgy sector by analyzing their materials and processes.
ANALYSIS
Custom chemical analysis : purity determination
Castability test on powders
Inspection of metallic alloys : ferrous or not, stainless steel (EN 10088-1/2/3) (titanium, copper, lead, nickel, zinc, aluminum, tin, cobalt…)
Surface analysis and coating characterization
EXPERTISE
Expert chemical analysis
Laboratory audit and analytical training
Failure analysis : fissures, particular contamination, adhesive problems, corrosion, metallographic inspection, weld analysis…
Deformulation services
Compatibility studies
R&D
Creation and transfer of analytical procedures
Developing a new formula or a new substance
Research into substitutions for CMR substances
Optimization of procedures
OUR FACILITIES
Metallurgical analysis : ICP, SEM-FEG EDX, OES
Surface analysis : SEM-FEG EDX, PES, ToF-SIMS
The positive aspects of FILAB
A highly qualified team
Responsiveness in responding to and processing requests
A complete analytical park of 2100m²
Tailor-made support
Emmanuel BUIRET
Technical Sales Representative
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