Quality Assurance

A stringent Quality Assurance (QA) system has been put in place to evaluate all processes at each step of manufacturing to maintain good quality consistently. QA department is managed by a team of highly qualified and experienced staff comprising of scientists, chemists and engineers who work round-the-clock.

Quality Control

• Material testing is carried out as per the ASTM standards
• Mutually defined Quality Agreements with customers form the basis for dispatching material
• Customer feedback analysis is carried out based on Eight Disciplines Problem Solving (8D) method
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is carried out for each product
• Sample retention policy:
  1. Quantity per lot: 500Gms
  2. Retention time: One year from date of production
• Laboratory is well equipped for quality testing. Key Instruments are listed below:

Sr. No.	Properties	Equipment	Make
1	Moisture	Moisture Analyzer	Mettler Toledo
2	Particle Size	Particle Size Analyzer	Beckman Coulter
3	Tensile Stregnth, Elongation, Compressive Strength, Shear Strength, Flexural Strength, Tensile Modulus, Compressive Modulus and Shear Modulus, Flexural Modulus and Coefficient of Friction	Universal Testing Machine (UTM)	Instron
4	Specific Gravity of plastic materials	Specific Gravity Balance	Essae / Mettler Toledo/ A & D Instruments Ltd.
5	IR Spectroscopic Analysis of organic materials	Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)	Jasco
6	Thermal characteristic of polymeric materials	Differential Scanning Calorimetric (DSC)	TA Instruments & Perkin Elmer
7	Thermal characteristic of Polymeric Materials	Thermal Mechanical Analyser (TMA)	TA Instruments
8	Degradation behaviour and filler content in polymers	Thermo Gravimetric Analyzer (TGA)	TA Instruments
9	Fold endurance of plastic materials	Flex Tester	Tinius Olsen
10	Hardness of hard plastic materials	Hardness Tester Shore-D	Precision Instrument

• QA department is also responsible for quality inspection of incoming raw materials and packaging materials

Typical Formats of Certificate of Analysis (COA)

Each batch is tested and a separate COA is issued with detailed properties.