Testing Services

EMSL offers an expert staff of scientists and advanced instrumentation to resolve customers’ material identification projects. Dedicated project managers will coordinate each step of the project and once samples arrive, EMSL provides rapid testing services utilizing a systematic approach. 

EMSL’s nationwide network can often provide the answers you need in days, not weeks, in a clear, concise format.

In addition to material and contaminant identification services, EMSL also provides the following material testing services:

• Physical Testing
• Packaging Testing
• Metallurgical Analysis
• Chemical Analysis
• Mechanical Testing
• Failure Analysis
• Petrographic Examination
• Fire & Flammability
• Polymer Testing
• Paint Testing
• Deformulation
• Contaminant Identification
• Patent Infringement
• Manufacturing Defects
• Weatherization Studies

Supported by a broad array of instrumentation, EMSL applies a full spectrum of standard and customized analyses to projects.  Instrumentation includes:

• Acoustic Digital Tap Hammer
• Anodic Stripping Voltammetry (ASV)
• Ascott Cyclic Corrosion Test Chamber
• Auger Electron Spectroscope (AES)
• Oxygen Bomb Calorimeter
• Carbon, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Hydrogen Analyzers (combustion)
• Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption Mercury Analyzer (CVAA)
• Cold Vapor Atomic Fluorescence Mercury Analyzer (CVAF)
• Combustible Dust Chamber (20 L Siwek)
• Combustible Dust- Mike 3 Test Apparatus/Min. Ignition Temp.
• Cryo-Microtome
• Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
• Environmental Chambers (various conditions)
• Flame Atomic Absorption (FAA)
• Fourier Transform Infrared Microscope (micro-FTIR)
• Gas Chromatographs (GC, ECD, FID, MS, MS/MS, NPD, High Resolution, Pyrolisis)
• Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectrometer (Pulsed Matched RF GD-OES)
• Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC)
• Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption (GFAA)
• Heat-treating Furnaces (RT to 1700C)
• High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Diode Array/Fluorescence Detectors
• High Performance Liquid Chromatography coupled with ICP-MS
• High Speed Video Camera
• Impedance Analyzer
• Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometer (ICP)
• Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometer/Mass Spectroscopy (ICP/MS)
• Impact Tester
• Torsion Test System
• Ion Chromatography (IC)
• Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS)
• Liquid chromatography-quadrupole mass spectrometer (LC-MS/MS)
• Magnaflux AC/DC Magnetic Particle Inspection System
• Mercury Analyzer
• Surface Roughness Tester
• Servo-hydraulic Fatigue Test System
• Near Infrared Spectroscope (NIR)
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
• Osmolality Equipment
• Oxygen Transmission Rate Analyzer
• Particle Sizer (High Performance)/Laser Interferometry
• Phase Contrast Microscopes (PCM)
• Polarized Light Microscopes (PLM)
• Precision Ion Polishing System (PIPS)
• Scanning Electron Microscopes/Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analyzers (EDXA)
• Surface Area/Chemisorption Analyzer (BET, pore size)
• Taber and Liniar Abrasion Equipment
• Thermal decomposition/Amalgamation and Atomic Absorption Solid State
Mercury Analyzer Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA)
• Total Organic Carbon Analyzers (TOC)
• Transmission Electron Microscopes/Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analyzers (EDXA)
• Ultrasonic Flaw detector
• Water Transmission Rate Analyzer Micro-indentation Hardness Tester
• Regular and Superficial Rockwell Hardness Tester
• X-Ray Diffractometers (XRD)
• X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (WD-XRF)
• Zeta Potential Analyzer