Glass analysis laboratory

The 6NAPSE Group performs glass analysis and expertise. The laboratory characterizes the surfaces and the inclusions, it also determines the origin of a breakage.

Glass characteristics

Glass is a material with multiple applications (food, automotive, construction, etc.), so it is inherently complex to analyze and use. Like each material, it is important to know the characteristics of glass and enamels in the context of assembly control and durability.

Glass industry, manufacturer or subcontractor, have to ensure the quality of their materials, understand failures or defects in the product or solve problems of interactions between the container and the content.

Glass analysis and expertise

The 6NAPSE group supports manufacturers in the complete investigation procedures on the glass area (analysis, control, expertise, …).

• Fractographic expertise of a product
  • Analysis of the cause of the breakage: location of the origin and stresses suffered that led to the breakage
• Check the dimensions of the finished products against the plan
• Non-destructive study of interfaces in complex systems
  • Finding a leak path in a glass bottle / plastic sprayer system
• Surface treatment analysis
• Material control and product conformity

The laboratories have a large fleet of technological and innovative equipment to perform these glass analyses: SEM-EDX, infrared microscopy (IR), optical microscopy, tensiometer, surface energy, non-contact measuring stations, X-ray microtomography, etc.

6NAPSE Group assets

• All the controls, tests and analyzes of our laboratories are carried out in compliance with the quality criteria of our industrial customers.
• Short standard deadlines and possibilities of urgent care