Plastic industry

Polymer analysis in the plastic industry
Application of NIR devices for quality evaluation

NIR spectrometers are particularly suitable to characterise polymers. That includes:

  • Polymer- and monomer characterisation and -differentiation (comparison with spectra library)
  • Polymerisation control
  • Morphologie/ crystallinity
  • Additives
  • Colour
  • Molecule chain length/ orientation
  • Polymer blends, copolymers

Based on high sensitivity and internal calibration of the NIR spectrometer of the series uniSPEC, samples can be reliably evaluated analytically. The identification of small polymeric differences is possible without sample preparation. Based on the important material questions of quality control, from the significant spectral information analysis routines can be generated.