Versaperm Building materials & permeability measurement
 
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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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Vapour Permeability Testing



Vapour Permeability testing using our latest permeability testing equipment is fast, easy, accurate and repeatable. Versaperm MKVI Vapour permeability testing instruments are based on a modular approach which is designed to ease customisation. Thus each Vapour permeability testing instrument is built with a variety of options to suit the customer and their particular application. This is achieved at prices which are competitive with mass-produced instruments.


 Vapour Permeability Testing Equipment

Vapour permeability is the measure of how strongly a material can resist the barrier passage of any gas (such as water vapour, Oxygen, CO2 or a hydrocarbon).  Vapour permeability dramatically affects the physical characteristics of most products and materials, from outdoor clothing to missiles and from pizza to industrial seals.

Different gases have varying permeability for the same material.

Generally speaking nitrogen oxide has the lowest vapour permeability and that the vapour permeability of oxygen is 25 times greater.  The vapour permeability for carbon dioxide is 10 to 25 times greater than for nitrogen oxide.

The range of gases which are suitable for permeability measurement is limited only by sensors being commercially available, and cost. Although we manufacture some sensors ourselves, for most gases we are able to utilise the current best available sensors for each application. Therefore we have alliances with several leading gas detection companies which operate around the world

 Vapour permeability measurement

For equipment to measure permeability click here

For information on permeability testing click here

For background information on permeability click here

Vapour permeability table

 

 

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