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Our facilities

Brightlands Materials Center has state-of-the-art facilities at three locations at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus with nearly 1000m2 lab and pilot space.

We have:

• A complete 3D printing infrastructure: German RepRap X500, Anisoprint Composer, Raise3D Pro2, small scale SLS powder printer, various DPL printers;
• Various small-scale plastics processing equipment, such as Xplore micro-compounder, micro-injection molding, Collin (300mm) flat film extrusion, Engel injection molder with a linear robot for insert molding, an 18mm flexible dosing twin-screw Coperion extruder, a 80mm single-screw extruder for composites recycling, a Fontijne Press, shredding equipment for both rigid plastic products and flexible films, Kopp sealing equipment , Watttron digital sealing, thermoforming;
• Various testing equipment: Instron universal tensile testers with DIC imaging, pelletizing/flaking, dedusting and sieving equipment for recycling purposes, various analytics tools (DSC, TGA, rheometry, microscopy, particle size and fiber length distribution determination, a NIR and UV/Vis spectrophotometers), measuring hot tack and leak testing for plastic packaging;
• An autoclaves for nanoparticle synthesis and coating-process equipment, a washing machine, a 50x50cm2 dip coater, a roll-coater, a Buhler powder grinder, various high temperatures furnaces (rotating tube, rapid thermal processing and annealing, high temperature curing).