Paint Testing
At Wimpey Laboratories, we have an advanced capability of a variety of tests and accredited paint testing lab in UAE to certify your product according to national and international standards.
Paint testing consists of testing products such as paint, varnishes, enamels, pigments, printing inks and synthetic resins to protect from corrosion. These products are widely used in industries like engineering, automotive, and consumer durable sectors. Paint tests can be done in many ways. The industries use several different paint testing methods according to their sector to ensure accurate results. Paint can be tested in a wet and dry forms for different properties.
Paint testing can be generally categorized into three: raw material testing, finished product testing and performance testing using accelerated weathering and other simulation type methods of evaluation.
Our testing capabilities are as follows:
Paint Analysis – Paint Physical Analysis
- Abrasion resistance
- Appearance of the dry layer
- Artificial weathering
- Burnish resistance
- Carbon dioxide diffusion
- Chloride ion diffusion
- Cleanability test
- Color test
- Compatibility test of steel with sample
- Compressive strength
- Contrast test
- Corrosion resistance (salt spray test)
- Crack bridging
- Cyclic corrosion test
- Density / specific gravity
- Dirt collection on coated exterior panel
- Dry film thickness
- Drying time
- Elongation
- Evaluating degree of blistering of paints
- Evaluation of painted or coated specimens subjected to corrosive environments
- Fire test
- Flammability
- Flexibility bend rest
- Gloss level
- Graffiti resistance
- Heat ageing
- Impact resistance
- International recognized listing and approval for potable water
- Kinetic friction
- Labeling information
- Length change
- Moisture vapour transmission rate
- Odor test
- Packaging
- Paint type
- Pencil hardness
- Practical spread rate
- Pull off test
- Repaint ability
- Resistance to chloride ion penetration
- Resistance to washing
- Scratch resistance
- Scrub resistance
- Shore A hardness
- Shore D hardness
- Slip resistance
- Solid by volume
- Solid content
- State of the paint in the container
- Static coefficient of friction on concrete
- Tear resistance
- Temperature resistance
- Tensile strength and elongation
- UV resistance
- Water absorption
- Water condensation test (humidity resistance) – 720 hours
- Water resistance
- Water vapor transmission
Paint Analysis – Paint Chemical Analysis
- Chemical Composition
- 1,1,1-Trichloroethane
- Alkaline resistance
- Alkyl phenol Ethoxylate (APEO)
- Aromatic Hydrocarbon
- Carbon dioxide diffusion
- cathodic disbondment
- chemical resistance
- Chloride content
- Chloride ion diffusion
- Density
- Dichloromethane
- Flash Point
- Formaldehyde
- FT-IR
- Halogenated Hydrocarbon
- Heavy metals
- Light reflectance Value (LRV)
- Liquid Water Permeability
- liquid water transmission
- Luminous coefficient
- Non Volatile matter
- phthalate
- solar reflectance Index (SRI)
- solid/pigments
- Solubility in Cold water
- Solubility in Hot water
- Specific Gravity
- Tributyltin (TBT)
- Titanium dioxide
- Suitability of non-metallic materials and products for use in contact
- with water intended for human consumption with regard to
- their effect on the quality of the water.
- Triphenyltin (TPT)
- Viscosity
- Volatile organic content
- Water content
- Yellowness Index
- Dry opacity
- Auto Ignition Temperature
- Ash content
- Volatile and non-volatile matters
- Percentage of zinc
- Percentage of glass flake
- Specific Gravity
- pH
- Solid content
- Solar Reflectance
- Titanium as titanium dioxide
- Anti-Carbonation
- Stain Resistance
- Hiding Power
- Marking
Paint Analysis – ESMA/SABER Requirements
- Volatile organic compounds
- Lead
- Cadmium
- Arsenic
- Mercury
- Antimony
- Chromium VI
- Tributyltin (TBT)
- Triphenyltin (TPT)
- Formaldehyde
- Aromatic Hydrocarbon
- Halogenated Hydrocarbon
Paint Analysis – Microbial Analysis
- Determination of the Microbial Condition of Paint, Paint Raw Materials, and Paint areas.
- Resistance of Emulsion Paints in the Container to Attack by
- Microorganisms.
- Determining Resistance of Synthetic Polymeric Materials to Fungi.
- Determining the Resistance of Paint Films and Related Coatings to
- Fungal Defacement by Accelerated Four-Week Agar Plate Assay.
Contact Us
For more information about our company, or to request a service for your business, please don't hesitate to contact us.
For enquiries to our Dubai team, please email: info.dxb@wimpeylab.com (Dubai)
For enquiries to our Abu Dhabi team, please email: info.auh@wimpeylab.com (Abu Dhabi)
Or send us a request directly via our contact form here.
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About Wimpey
Wimpey Laboratories is an independent testing and calibration laboratory with more than two decades of experience in providing services across the globe.
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