Your needs : understanding and controlling additives in your products
An additive is a chemical substance added to the composition of a material or product to improve its final properties.
There are various additives used in many different fields:
- cosmetics (stabilisers, preservatives, antioxidants),
- industrial polymers and resins (plasticisers, flame retardants, antioxidants), paints and varnishes.
As part of the development or optimization processes of a product, of changes in regulations, or following a product failure, you are looking to characterize and determine the additive contents of your products with support from a specialized laboratory.
In fact, only a laboratory with state-of-the-art analytical equipment is capable of performing 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)
Detecting and measuring preservatives, antioxidants, or stabilisers
Study the stability and ageing of your formulations according to the additives used
Deform products to identify the exact composition of your formulas
Our solutions for industrial polymers and resins
Determination of additive content (plasticisers, antioxidants, flame retardants)
Checking the composition against safety data sheets (SDS)
Study of the thermal stability of polymers
Development and validation of analytical methods suitable for 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
Would you like to receive a quote for additive analysis?
The FILAB laboratory has 5,200 m² of analytical facilities and a team of engineers at your service.
To contact us, please fill in the form on the right.
Technical means for analysing additives
In order to provide these various services, the FILAB laboratory has a wide range of analytical techniques at its disposal, such as:
- Thermal analyses using DSC or TGA
- Chromatographic analyses (GC-MS or HPLC) to identify volatile additives
- Spectrometric analyses (IFTR, ICP-MS and ICP-AES) to measure the presence of additives in polymers
Through our three levels of services – analysis, expertise and R&D support – FILAB assists companies of all sizes and in all sectors with the analysis and characterisation of additives in the laboratory, providing its clients with the know-how and experience of its team.