Using breakthrough technology, we developed Lab-Robot CB4 which is a fast and totally automatic system to analyze additive dispersion in plastics. The importance of pigments, particles and other additives for quality control in the plastic industry is well known. With this system, particle recognition, size, shape, color distribution and filtering may be be reported in a few seconds for more than a dozen samples in an easy and fully automated way. Engineered robotics, customized illumination, and a highly featured software with user friendly interface, make it a versatile tool for quality control inspection of different types of samples in accordance to ISO-18553 standard.
Principle
Small samples of raw-material pellets or material removed from the pipe or fitting are heated and compressed between microscope slides. Alternatively, a microtome slice can be taken. The specimens produced are examined microscopically and the sizes of particles and agglomerates are measured, recorded and graded by comparison with a tabulated grading system. A particle/agglomerate size grading is determined from an average of the gradings determined for six specimens. The System generates rich text format report, with recorded and calculated data. An example of the short report is shown on the next page.
Grading of particle and agglomerate size