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PROCESSING/ MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES
Injection Moulding
- Ultraprecision micromoulding WB11Wittman Battenfeld Micropower (2) & Microsystem (2)
- ultraprecision larger scale injection moulding WB9Fanuc30B
- high speed thin wall injection moulding WB11Fanuc 100t
- with Fanuc 6-axis robot
- Ultrasonic microinjection moulding WB11Ultrasion
- 2K injection moulding WB9Battenfeld 120t
- large scale injection moulding WB9Fanuc 50t, Battenfeld 75t
- small scale injection moulding WB11Fanuc 5t
Extrusion
- micro extrusion WB13 Clean roomXplore
- micro extrusion WB13 Clean roomThermo Fisher
- miniature twin screw extrusion WB13 Clean roomThermo Fisher 11mm
- small scale twin screw extrusion WB13 Clean roomPrism 16mm; APV 19mm;
- small scale twin screw extrusion WB9 Clean roomPrism 16mm
- mid scale single screw extrusionRondol 18mm
- small scale single screw extrusionRondol 12mm
- mid-scale twin screw extrusion WB13 Clean roomThermo Fisher 16mm 40:1 L/D
- large scale twin screw extrusion WB10Thermo Fisher 25mm 40:1 L/D
- with 3 KTron loss in weight feeders
- twin screw extrusion (gel electics) WG14Rondol 19mm
- feeding single screw extruderRondol 20mm
- small scale single screw extrusion WLB1Randcastle
- medium scale single screw tube extrusion WB17Dr Collin 16mm
- medium scale single screw film extrusion WB17Dr Collin 20mm
- medium scale single screw extrusion WLB1Betol 38mm
- large scale single screw extrusion WB9Betol 63mm
- fibre extrusion line - dual fibre WB9FET 25mm
- film blowing WLB1Betol 38mm
- film blowing miniature WG17
- cast film - 3 roll stack WLB1Betol 38mm
- extrusion cast film/ coating WLB1Betol 38mm
- extrusion Killion 25mm
- extrusion single screw - billets WLB3Boston Matthews 25mm
- metering pump
Solid phase orientation
- precision small scale die drawing WB17Gillard precision hauloff
- precision small scale die drawing WB17linear drive
- precision small scale drawing - Changchun Lablinear drive
- small scale die drawing - tensile draw frame WB17Messphysik
- small scale die drawing - tensile draw frame WB17
- (long travel)Messphysik
- Fibre drawing frame WB17Rondol
- Tensile testers WB17Instron (x2)
- Biaxial stretcher (vertical) WLB1
- Biaxial stretcher (horizontal) WLB1Long/ ICI
3-d printing
- fused deposition (x6) WB17
- laser curing (x2) WB17
- Microfabjetlab
Other
- Electrospinning (bi-component) WG37
- ultrasonic welding WB11
- plasma etching WB11
MATERIALS CHARACTERISATION
- rheology
- Spectroscopy
- UV vis, WG33Thermo Fisher
- NIR WG33Thermo Fisher
- TEM
- TechnaiFEI/ Thermo Fisher
- Xray
- SAXS/WAXSAnton Paar SAXSpace
- Thermal
- DSCTA
- DMATA
- moisture meter Mitsubishi
- Optical microscopy
- HPLC
- other Pharmaceutical-related facilities - see Pharma Eng Sci RKT Centre
PRODUCT CHARACTERISATION
Surfaces
- Asylum WG21Oxford Instruments with Confocal Laser Microscope Leica
- Nanoindentation WG21 Hysitron
- Confocal Laser Microscopy
- White Light Interferometer WLIVeeco
- Raman surface mapping Thermo Fisher
Physical properties
- Asylum WG21Oxford Instruments
- Asylum WG21Oxford Instruments with Confocal Laser Microscope Leica
- Veeco WG21
- nanoindentation WG21 Hysitron
- micromechanical WG21 -
- Biomomentum
- Electroforce
- surface energy
- contact angle WF21
- wear WG37
- Micro CT Nikon WB17
IN PROCESS METROLOGY
- optical imaging
- thermal imaging
- ultrasound
- thermal mesh
- pressure
- displacment
- monitoring/control
- Labview
- National instruments interfaces
- Python/ Image J software
MODELLING
software
- Autodesk Moldflow
- Abaqus FEA
- Compuplas
- CFX
- Materialise
- Labview - various in-house programs
- Python/ Image J - various in-house modules
hardware
A range of high end PC and Mac machines, plus various large data storage systems