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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.
Our solution: to assist industrialists in the metallurgy sector by analyzing their materials and processes.
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:
ANALYSIS
Custom chemical analyses : purity determination
Metallographic analysis
Castability test on powders
REACH analyses
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
Granulometric analysis
Aluminum, thallium, gallium and indium analysis
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
Literature reviews
OUR FACILITIES
Organic analyses : GCMS, Py-GCMS, LC-MSMS, GPC, NMR, FTIR
Thermal analyses : TGA, DSC
Metallurgical analyses : ICP, SEM-FEG EDX, OES
Surface analysis : SEM-FEG EDX, PES, ToF-SIMS
Mineral analyses : ICP, XRD, IC
Elemental analysis : LECO C-S, LECO O-N, LECO H, LECO O-N-H
Powder analysis : XRD, SEM-FEG EDX, BET
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
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