Laboratory Services / Paints, Coatings & Sealers

Paints, Coatings & Sealers

CTLGroup’s organic chemists and materials scientists have a broad experience with coatings applications across a variety of markets. Our laboratory provides independent, objective analysis to help answer your technical questions throughout the life cycle of a coating system.

We can help you innovate, troubleshoot, benchmark against competitors, augment quality assurance; perform chemical and physical testing, and conduct failure analysis. We can perform a variety of coatings tests using our highly specialized analytical equipment in our chemistry laboratory.

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Testing Capabilities

CTLGroup has expertise with specialty coatings, thin-films, advanced coating materials such as nanomaterials, graphene, and emerging smart technologies.

Test capabilities include:

Abrasion resistance
Accelerated weathering
Adhesion
Alkali resistance
Chloride ion diffusion
Chemical and acid resistance
Coefficient of friction
Color testing
Corrosion and chemical resistance
Hardness and impact resistance
Product stability and aging
Solar reflective index
Spectroscopic and thermal characterization (FTIR, SEM, XRD. XRF, TGA, DSC)
Viscosity characterization
Water penetration
Water vapor transmission

Both routine test methods (e.g. ASTM methods) as well as tests methods can be developed for specialized tasks, such as freeze thaw testing of coatings for individual building components, can be performed.