Kingspan

Project: Moisture in Polycarbonates
Location: Castleblayney, Ireland
Products: Computrac Moisture in Solids Analyserss

Kingspan is a global leader in high-performance insulation and building envelope solutions. The Kingspan Group is a €4.4bn revenue concern with 5 main business streams across 129 manufacturing sites in over 70 countries.

Kingspan’s Insulated Panels, a key innovator in the design and development of advanced building envelopes, has recently launched its ZerO Energy Lighting solution to help businesses eliminate their lighting electricity bills. This product combines the latest in polycarbonate rooflight products with LED lighting.

The moisture content of the polycarbonate used to construct the panels is critical to the finished quality of the product. Too much moisture in the pellets prior to melting and extrusion and the final product will suffer from runniness and splay (off-colour streaking), too little moisture can cause clogging and production delays and render the end-product brittle.

Considering the significance of an accurate, trace moisture measurement of the polycarbonate pellets prior to production, Kingspan approached ABLE Instruments, experts in the field of moisture analysis, for a precise and reliable solution. ABLE recommended the best-in-class Computrac MAX-4000XL loss-on-drying moisture and solids analyser.

Simple to operate, highly durable and equally at home in research, manufacturing and laboratory environments, the MAX 4000XL is the ideal choice for critical moisture analysis.