Special laboratory equipment
and major items of equipment


Arrangement and
major items of equipment
Laboratories
Measuring equipment
Picture processing
Department specific equipment

Arrangement and major items of equipment  
  • Process engineering test fields for wood-based materials, pulp materials and liquid coatings
  • Facilities for natural and time-lapse weathering of surfaces
  • Test houses for testing of building elements
  • Weathering simulator for outdoor and indoor climate for building elements up to house wall size
  • Chip harvester
  • Drying systems for wood particles and fibres on a semi-technical scale
  • Refiner for the manufacture of wood fibres
  • Continuous small-scale plant for the manufacture and the gluing of fibres for special materials (p. ex. MDF) from wood and annual plants
  • Hot presses
  • Plant for recycling of used furniture


Laboratories
 
  • Laboratory for glue and varnish analysis
  • Laboratory for analysis of air and material samples using gaschromatography, HPLC, mass spectroscopy, IR-spectroscopy, nuclear emission spectroscopy
  • Laboratory for microscopy, image analysis and surface testing
  • Laboratory for microscopy, image recognition and surface testing


Measuring equipment
 
  • Test chambers for determination of the long-term behaviour and for determination of formaldehyde emission
  • Test facility for wood-fuelled ovens and vessels
  • Measurements vehicle for emissions and immissions
  • Facilities for laser granulometry, thermal analysis and thermal gravimetry
  • Mobile computer-aided measuring facility for acquisition of operational data of board manufacturing plants
  • Devices for non-destructive testing using acoustical techniques
  • Blower door facility for determination of air tightness
  • test-bench (free-field half-space and sound analytic system) for air-borne acoustic noise emissions of floorings


Picture processing
 
  • Development system for real-time image processing
  • Thermographic camera for the detection of delaminations
  • Video-holographic device for deformation analysis


Department specific equipment
 


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