Versaperm Permeability applications
 
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About Versaperm

Versaperm manufactures gas permeability testing equipment, offers a comprehensive permeability testing service and a materials consultancy. These are used to measure gas permeability and leakage, important in medical and pharmaceutical packaging, foils and films, coatings, food and confectionery packaging and contents, and many other applications.

Instruments

Versaperm designs and manufactures instruments to meet each customer’s needs. Instruments are typically be based on a modular MkVI design.

Testing Service


Our laboratory testing service has over 30 years experience to enable us to choose the best technique to measure your sample's permeability both quickly and accurately.

 

Sensors

Our diverse and growing range of sensors are based on fundamentally different and divergent physical principals. The choice of the right sensor for an application is critical in the successful deployment of the equipment. We are not tied to a sensor manufacturer.

Gases / Vapours

At Versaperm we can measure the permeability for almost any gas / vapour including water vapour, Oxygen, CO2 Hydrogen, Helium, Nitrogen and Hydrocarbons.

Applications

Consultancy

Our Consultancy division combines our theoretical and practical Permeability skills in instrument design and manufacture. Permeability Consultancy

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Aerospace Permeability Measurement

Plastics & Rubber Permeability Testing

When it comes to the permeability of gases and vapours, many plastic and rubber products are fairly poor at keeping them in or out – and prove a considerably worse barrier than they do to liquids.  This makes a vital difference in their physical properties – not just as sealants, but also in the way they handle, print and perform in their day-to-day working lives.

Our permeability meter can measure the permeability of plastic and rubber seals, material samples, containers and finished products for water vapour, hydrocarbon and a wide range of other gases, including O2, N2, CO2 and He.

Our latest range of permeability measurement equipment and permeability sensors provide fast and accurate measurement - usually in the parts per million range, (parts per billion with some gases).  Conventional gravimetric techniques take several days or weeks, but using our plastics and rubber permeability testing equipment  takes from as little as 30 minutes for some materials.

Permeability in Plastics and Rubber applications

A wide range of plastic and rubber products require testing for permeability as, although they present a high permeability barrier to most liquids, many are very poor at preventing the flow of vapours.

Aerospase Plastics and Rubber Permeability measurement

Click here for a press release on plastics and rubber permeability testing

Click here for an article on the permeability of semipermeable membranes

Click here for information on sensors that can be used to measure permeability in plastics and rubber

Click here for an article on hydrocarbon permeability measurement

 

 

 

Versaperm Limited
10 Rawcliffe House, Howarth Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 1AP, UK, Tel: +44 1628 777668
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