Toxic and nontoxic contaminants can negatively affect the performance of materials, products, paints and coatings. Element offers contamination testing to help you characterize impurities, determine their source and prevent them from reoccurring.
Element’s contamination testing services are an important part of our comprehensive testing services. Whether the contamination is part of failure analysis, corrosion testing, or investigative chemistry projects, we can help. At Element, our chemists, engineers, biologists and scientists understand that contamination identification needs are unique, and our labs are ready to help with simple or complex matrices.
Our Contaminant Testing Services
Our state-of-the-art labs can identify the presence of metals and heavy metals, oils, foreign chemicals, low quality fillers and more in a variety of product and material types. With dedicated experts in aerospace, oil and gas, transportation and general industrial sectors, we can assist with the most challenging projects across any discipline.
In addition to contamination identification, we can also help ensure that products are free of contamination and meet relevant customer, government, internal, quality and/or safety standards.
For more information about how we can assist with your project, or to request a quote, contact us today.
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Our Materials Testing Services
Abrasion and Wear Testing
Aerospace Fasteners
Aircraft Interiors Flammability Testing
Chemical Analysis
Chemical Processing
Composite Testing
Computed Tomography
Contamination Testing
Corrosion Testing
Die Steel Qualification
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
Eddy Current Inspection
Etching
Expert Witness Services
Failure Analysis
Fastener Testing
Fatigue Testing
FEA
Foam Testing
FTIR
Fractography Services
Fracture Toughness
Fuels and Lubricants Testing
Hardness Testing
Impact
Liquid Penetrant Inspection
Magnetic Particle
Material Properties
Mechanical Testing
Metallurgical Testing
NDT Field Services
Nondestructive Testing and Inspection
Nonmetals Failure Analysis
Nonmetal Mechanical Testing
Nonmetal Testing
On-site metallographic examination
Paint and Coating Material Testing Services
Passivation
Polymer Matrix Composite Testing
Polymer Testing Services
Positive Material Identification
Radiographic Inspection
Residual Stress Measurement
Residue Analysis
Sour Service Corrosion Testing
Stress Rupture and Creep Testing
Stress Strain Analysis
Tensile Testing
Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)
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