Materials Laboratory

Our services includes

Training of technical personnel in areas of

  • Preservation of timber bamboo and cane
  • Bleaching of surgical gauze
  • Building materials testing
  • Concrete mix design
  • Consultancy services
  • Recycling of waste paper

We test…

Building Material

  • Cement
  • Water for constructions
  • Cement mortars
  • Concrete
  • Building limes
  • Aggregate (sand and metal)
  • Steel
  • Bricks and roofing tiles
  • Floor tiles and wall tiles
  • Aluminum extrusion
  • PVC products
  • Conduits
  • PVC coated products

Mineral and mineral based products

  • Quarts, feldspar, Dolomite, Calcite, Limestone etc..
  • Clay
  • Glaze Composition

Metals

  • Iron and steels
  • Al cables, pipes, utensil extrusions etc..
  • Copper, Brass, Bronze etc..
  • Roofing sheets, steel products etc..

Paper products

  • Corrugated cartoons
  • Kraft paper sacks
  • Printing paper

Timber treatment level

  • Retention level and depth of penetration pf copper chrome arsenate and boron salt

Oil and oil based products

  • Physical properties (density, viscosity , flashpoint) foam compounds

Leather products

  • Shoes, bags etc..

Rubber products
Laminated and composite packaging materials
Paints
Adhesives

We are equipped with …

  • Universal testing machine (100 tons, 5tons, 500kg)
  • Ozone tester
  • Salt spray testing machine
  • UV exposure
  • Corrugated Box testing equipment
  • Atomic absorption spectrometer
  • High temperature furnace
  • Cement and Concrete hammer tester
  • Paint testing equipment
  • Paper testing equipment
  • UV visible spectrophotometer
  • Concrete testing equipment
  • Bomb calorimeter
  • Aggregate testing equipment
  • Viscosity meters (redwood and kinematics)
  • Vickers micro hardness tester