Our Technical Facilities
In 2012 Farécla invested extensively to provide cutting-edge technical facilities to perform high end analysis, R&D, formulation development and performance testing in tandem.
We are able to generate different types of automotive substrates in-house, enabling us to replicate the end user environment for testing, and tailor products to our customer’s needs - across different markets and environments.
The lab is in constant use, being used for wet chemical development, analysis, formulation development, generating substrates for testing on and end product performance testing.
These important in-house facilities provide an in-depth analysis of various physical and chemical properties of abrasive particles to establish correlations between properties and performance, enabling Farécla to
So where do you start when developing a formulation? With a comprehensive library comprising thousands of different chemicals enabling the development of a wide range of different formulations, we also have an impressive range of equipment to measure, test and understand how and why our formulations behave in the way the do.
A few of the more interesting tools at our technical team's disposal includes:
- Scanning electron microscope (with 3D analysis capability) and gold coating unit for sample analysis
- Visible light microscope with polariser
- Laser diffraction particle size analyser with a wet dispersion unit and a custom heated recirculation accessory
- Zeta potential analyser with autotitrator
- Thermogravimetric analyser with differential scanning calorimeter
- BET surface area analyser
- Professional photography equipment, lighting and editing software
- Viscometers, pH meter and Moisture analyser
- Gloss meters
- Centrifuge
- High sheer mixers
- Automated polishing machine
- Water baths, Heating mantles and Magnetic stirring hot plates
- Bacterial dip slide testing
- Rotary evaporator