Polymer Char
Polymer Char, the world's leading polyolefin characterization company, is devoted to the development of state-of-the-art instrumentation for structural characterization of polyolefins.
Company Description
Polymer Char, the world's leading polyolefin characterization company, is devoted to the development of state-of-the-art instrumentation for structural characterization of polyolefins.
Chief Chromatographic Techniques Supported
- Molar mass distribution (high temperature GPC/SEC)
- High temperature HPLC for polyolefins (HT HPLC)
- Crystallization analysis fractionation (CRYSTAF)
- Temperature rising elution fractionation (TREF)
- Cross-fractionation chromatography (CFC)
- Crystallization elution fractionation (CEF)
- Xylene solubles analysis (CRYSTEX)
- Chemical composition distribution for quality control laboratories (CRYSTAF QC)
- Preparative fractionation
- Infrared detection for polyolefins
Markets Served
Polymer Char provides to the top polyolefin research laboratories worldwide, the leading petrochemical firms, and prestigious R&D Institutes or universities from all around the world. Its instruments are present in over 20 countries, within the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Major Products/Services
The company offers the broadest range of instruments and analytical services for polyolefin characterization, highlighting:
- GPC-IR: the new generation of high temperature GPC, providing key-benefits, such as a separate column oven compartment, an automated in-line filtration, no solvent handling, no vials transfer, fully automated sample preparation, and multiple detectors (concentration and composition by IR4 or IR5 MCT, light scattering, and viscometer).
- GPC One Software: the most modern and comprehensive software platform for high temperature GPC calculations.
- CRYSTEX: automated and highly precise Xylene Solubles measurement with no solvents handling, including sample preparation and final cleaning.
- HT-HPLC: new developments in separation technology for low crystallinity or amorphous polyolefins, such as TG-IC (thermal gradient interaction chromatography), solvent gradient IC, or 2 dimensional chromatography (HPLC × SEC).
Facilities
Polymer Char is headquartered in the Valencia Technology Park of Spain, boasting a new 20,000-square-foot state-of-the-art complex that includes its corporate offices, production factilities, and one of the most modern polyolefin R&D laboratories in the world. Together with its official distributors, the company supplies, trains, and supports customers worldwide.
Polymer Char
Polymer Characterization, S.A.
Gustave Eiffel 8
Valencia Technology Park
E-46980, Paterna, Spain
TELEPHONE
+34 96 131 81 20
FAX
+34 96 131 81 22
WEB SITE
YEAR FOUNDED
1992
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