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BackgroundAsphalt paving is exposed in all parts of the world under the most extreme conditions. Sealer is applied directly over the top of existing, and partially degraded, asphalt to restore the surface to a new-like condition. The sealer has to ad...

Background and Problem StatementQ-Lab worked to develop a correlative accelerated and outdoor testing program for an American manufacturer of high-end outdoor furniture. This company’s products are commonly installed in public places such as shared o...

Overview and Problem Statement A manufacturer of adhesives and fillers was looking for a way to better simulate yellowing failures of their products that they have seen in the field. Their products are used in the bonding, filling, and repairing...

Problem StatementA manufacturer of interior carpet for automobiles had no in-house testing capability to optimize the expensive UV stabilizers in their product. They found themselves spending a significant amount of time and money sending their newly...

Company OverviewDSM Resins is a Netherlands-based manufacturer of polyester powder coatings for architectural applications. Their customers are principally in the building and construction industry. Naturally, the service environments they are most c...

Overview and Problem StatementThe Czech University (CZU) Department of wood processing and biomaterials is a partner to the construction industry, providing a service for evaluation of commercially available wood coatings and stains. Services ar...

Impact Solutions is a leader in testing, recycling, certification, and research services for plastics. Based in Grangemouth, UK, they have over 120 years of combined experience and 6 million hours of test data in this specialized field. Grangemouth i...

Decoral America is the Florida-based subsidiary of Decoral, an Italian company that manufactures “decorative coating systems”. Their technology is based on a sublimation process to deposit decorative finishes on a wide variety of materials, including...

One of the world’s leading suppliers of automotive clear-coats and their automotive OEM began to notice a problem of small, permanent spots appearing on cars arriving through shipping ports near Jacksonville, Florida. They determined that the spots w...

A major global manufacturer and supplier of synthetic textiles was looking to use their Q-SUN Xe-3 to optimize the amount of UV stabilizers in their formulation,for internal cost-reduction purposes. The customer designed an experiment to test va...