Being able to identify your materials seems like a basic step, but the global marketplace has added complicating factors. Specifications may be "lost in translation," or quality requirements that make sense in one part of the world are incomprehensible in another. Sometimes it isn't an innocent mistake or cultural gap, it's simply deceptive practices.
There are other reasons for materials identification services--for deformulation or reverse engineering, for routine lot testing, for R&D, for failure analysis. It's never a mistake to learn more about your materials and their potential to make successful products.
Materials identification and Element laboratories
Element employs materials experts in every field--metallurgy, chemistry, polymers, composites, engineering, and more. Together, our network of independent laboratories answers materials identification questions from every kind of industry and business. Let us answer your materials questions.