KT108 Plastics Microscopy

• Leitz-AMR 1000 scanning electron microscope with digital image memory
• Nikon Eclipse ME 600 optical microscope (incident light, transmitted light, polarized light, bright and dark field, interference contrast) with digital camera and NIS Elements AR software for image analysis
• Leica MZ 16 stereomicroscope with digital camera and NIS Elements AR software for image analysis
• Saphir 320 grinding and polishing machine with a Rubin 500 grinding and polishing head from ATM
• Sputter SEM Autocoating UNIT E 5200 from Polaron Equipment LTD
• Microscope with melting table (Leitz) for determining the melting point

KT110 Plastics processing laboratory

• Extrusion plant:

• Micro 27-40 D with co-rotating and counter-rotating feeders from Leistritz Extrusionstechnik GmbH with optional side feeders and Brabender gravimetric metering units for the extruder (DDW-MD5-FW/40/5^Plus) and side feeders (DDW-MD3-DSR28N-20-ISC)
• Pelletizing systems:
• Hot die:
  Leistritz air granulator (closed, open)
• Cold die:
  with water bath and granulator from Scheer
  
  
• Pipe downstream line with vacuum chamber calibration, haul-off, and cutting device

• Injection moulding machine:

• Arburg Allrounder 270S-350-150 with tool for manufacturing standard test specimens

• Laboratory rolling mill:

• POLYMIX 110 P from Schwabenthan

• Lab press:

• POLYSTAT 300 S from Schwabenthan with a plate tool

• Mixer and kneader:

• TLHL 8 vortex mixer from Papenmeier
• Z-Kneader AR 400 from ERWEKA

• Dryer:

• VD 115 vacuum drying chamber from Binder
• T20 ECO HT compact dryer from SOMOS

KT111 and KTU09 Plastics Testing

• PL 25 hydropulser from Schenck with digital control
• Z 010 universal testing machine (tensile, bending, and compression test) from Zwick/Roell with:
  
  
  •  a tensile range up to 10 kN
  •  optical strain measurement
    
    
• Zwick/Roell HIT 5.5 P Pendulum impact tester
• BMF-001 melt flow meter from Zwick/Roell
• Ball indentation hardness tester 38 367 by Karl Frank
• Torsiomatik 5204 torsional oscillating balance from Zwick
• Heat deflection temperature measuring device 28570 by Karl Frank
  
  
  • according to Martens
  • according to Vicat
• MCR 300 rheometer from Anton Paar

KT123 Polymer Synthesis

• PVS 1 viscometer from Lauda
• Perkin-Elmer Lambda 35 UV/VIS spectrometer
• Malvern/Viscotek Gel Permeation Chromatograph
  with automatic sample changer, RI detector, UV/VIS detector, and light scattering detector