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Product Capabilities
Learn more about our product capabilities:
Each property has its own capabilities and lab tastings that we perform at Achilles USA.
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Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Color
Product Capabilities: Color and opacity matching to sample, Pantone® or other color values. From tints to opaque, metallic to fluorescent.
Lab Testing: Latest model desktop spectrophotomers and handheld color checking units to verify color on all production runs.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Printability
Product Capabilities: Proven product formulations compatible with all ink types and printing methods for beautiful image quality and ink adhesion.
Lab Testing: UV-cure, gravure, inkjet and screen printing
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
UV (Blocking)
Product Capabilities: Shielding of UV-A,B & C light through any specified wavelength or range.
Lab Testing: Spectrophotomer analysis
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Tensile Properties
Product Capabilities: Products designed to meet any requirements for tensile strength, elongation, modulus and tear strength.
Lab Testing: ASTM, Grave's tear and Elmendorf tear methods and equipment for sample analysis, R&D and lot certification.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Durometer
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Adhesives
Product Capabilities: Extensive plasticzer knowledge and experience to offer adhesive compatibility for short-term, long-term and repositionable applications.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Fire Retardancy
Product Capabilities: Opaque and clear formulations to meet any industry standard FR requirement including CSFM, NFPA 701 and E84.
Lab Testing: Onsite testing for NFPA 701, MVSS-302, CSFM, CPAI-84 and various ASTM and UL. Relationships with 3rd party labs for additional testing.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Dimensions
Product Capabilities: Five (5) calendering lines and secondary processes offer products from 3mil to 120mil thick and 1" to 110" wide.
Lab Testing: Online and offline measurement equipment utilized on every production lot with exceptional tolerance control.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Optics
Product Capabilities: Meet target values for clarity, haze, gloss and light transmission through formulation and embossing.
Lab Testing: Online and lab instrumentation for checking all optical properties.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
UV (Weathering)
Product Capabilities: Tested formulations for short- (<1 year) to long- (5-7 years) term outdoor usage and UV exposure with excellent color fastness and physical property retention.
Lab Testing: UV-con and Xenon arc weathering testing
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Cold Temperature
Product Capabilities: Mutliple formulation options for clear and opaque films meeting temperature ratings down to -60F.
Lab Testing: ASTM, DIN and Federal/Military testing standards available.
Product Capabilities: Semi-rigid to very soft and flexible (19 to 61+ PHR plasticizer) to match sample, tensile properties or other performance needs.
Lab Testing: Shore A and D, Clarks Stiffness and Gurley stiffness units for ensuring a perfect and consistent match.
Defect Control
Product Capabilities: Optimized mixing, compounding and processing for consistency and minimization of defects such as airmark and contamination.
Lab Testing: Online inspection systems on every manufacturing line with QC inspections performed throughout each lot.
Textures/Embosses
If you want to give your film a texture touch, either to look like leather or to look frosty, we offer 24 different embosses patterns. Check a few of them:
