End-to-end quality
Plastics and polymers play an essential role in virtually every product. Applications now range from medical to automotive and from construction to children's toys and packaging.
PANalytical offers several unique solutions for the whole value chain (cradle-to-cradle): from research and development to production and process control and even recycling, using XRF quantification of additives, toxic heavy metals and other restricted materials in polymers and plastics. From virgin polymers to recycled plastics, XRF analysis is essential for quality control. In addition, characterization of polymer chain lengths and orientation distribution in fibers and foils, as well as the phase purity of commonly used additives can be performed with an X-ray diffractometer.
PANalytical leadership
- Accurate determination of many functional additives and fillers with unique Certified Reference Materials: ADPOL, TOXEL, RoHS Calibration Standards and PVC Calibration Standards
- Revolutionary XRD platform with the world’s first 3D detection system allowing non-destructive computed tomography (CT) analysis of cast and moulded objects, together with conventional 2D observation of preferred orientation in fibers and foils
- Easy to use, fully automatable particle size distribution analysis of polymerization processes using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), even at non-ambient conditions on a multi-purpose X-ray diffractometer
Product choices
| Systems |
Description |
| Axios range |
High performance XRF spectrometers for research and routine applications |
| AxiosmAX - Poly |
XRF spectrometer combined with TOXEL, RoHS Calibration Standards - ideal to determine toxic heavy metal in recycled plastic materials and fulfill legal requirements |
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MiniPal range
MiniPal RoHS/WEE |
Cost-effective benchtop XRF range, easy to use
Dedicated to analysis of elements restricted by RoHS/WEE legislation, rapid screening and pass/fail |
| Epsilon 5 |
Lowest detection limits for quantitative analysis
Combines with PANalytical’s unique sets of certified reference polymer materials |
| Venus 200 |
Compact industrial XRF system, patented optics with simultaneous data collection, fully automated |
| Empyrean |
Ideal XRD platform for the plastics and polymers industry
The only XRD platform that does it all: powder diffractometry, crystallinity analysis, small-angle X-ray scattering, polymer orientation analysis of foils and fibers and computer tomographic (CT) analysis of (semi)finished products in one instrument |
| X'Pert Powder |
The cost-effective full-power solution for identification and quantification of filler materials |
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