Processing Equipment
- Injection Molder 3oz 75 ton
- Twin Screw Extruder
- High and Low Torque Brabender Mixer
- Extruder 1 in
- Extruder Blow molder
- Two-roll mill for compounding rubber
- Filament Winder
- Vacuum Hot-press (Automated)
- Resin spray assembly and fiber chopper; spray booth
- Compression press, heated
- Compression press, Room temp
- Blown Film Extruder
- Extruder take-off bath
- Extruder hot roll take-off
- Hot-melt Spinner
- Mold temperature controller
- Thermoformer
- Plastic granule drier
- Mini-Max Small Scale Mixer/Molder
- Grinder for plastic recycling
- Pelletizer
Characterization Equipment
- Perkin Elmer Thermal Analysis Facility: DSC and DMA
- Shimadzu Thermal Analysis Facility: DSC and TGA
- Bohlin Parallel Plate Rheometer
- Instron Mechanical Testing Machine 10 kpi, Extensometers,
- Load cells 2, 50, 200, 1000, and 10,000 pounds compression and tension
- Rheo-vibron dynamic mechanical analyzer
- Environmental testing chamber for the Instron -50 to 300oC
- Acoustic Emmision Spectrometer
- Satec fatigue tester
- Impact testers - falling dart and pendulum types
- Impact specimen notcher
- Instron capillary rheometer
- Vapor pressure osmometer
- Light scattering spectrometer
- Liquid chromatograph with Dawn RI and light scattering detectors
- DuPont DSC,TMA,DMA,TGA with Omnitherm control center
- Torsional Braid Pendulum
- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer
- Solid state NMR 200MHz, Super conducting
- Positron lifetime spectrometer
- Amray 1000 Scanning Electron Microscope
- Tracor-Northern Xray Fluoresence detector (for SEM)
- Carbon Coater
- Sample cutting and polishing facility
- Four channel strain gage bridge
- Dielectric Cure Monitor (Audrey)
- Dielectic Spectrometer, GE LC Digibridge
- Plastometer (2)
- Ferranti-Shirley viscometer
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John G. Williams Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931-1295, USA email:jgwillia@mtu.edu