Quality assurance of plastic products - Service life
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Our plastics laboratory documents many forms of service life, from the sterility of medical disposable equipment to the long-term stability of installations for energy infrastructure.
Authorities often require documentation, but producers themselves also see an advantage in documenting the service life of their product. In all cases, one can rarely wait for results, so we usually use accelerated exposure to provoke natural aging over a shorter time.
The plastics laboratory is accredited to perform a wide range of standardized exposures but also offers customer-specific service life studies tailored to the specific context. In these cases, we develop a ‘laboratory model’ together, which simulates what the product is exposed to and measures the parameters critical to the customer experience; typically, the producer validates the laboratory tests against market feedback.
What can the Danish Technological Institute help you with?
- Accelerated aging and stability studies
- Accredited exposure and stress tests (UV, temperature, ozone, humidity, corrosion)
- Independent assessment of remaining service life of a product or installation
- Documenting shelf life, e.g., in connection with CE marking
- Customer-specific testing of a product’s service life
- Service life in connection with changes of supplier or raw material
- Advice on extending service life