Technical Support Asahi Kasei Plastics North America, Inc.'s professional staff of skilled researchers and seasoned technical service engineers is ready and fully capable of turning your application idea into reality. They're adept at assisting customers in reducing existing application costs through material selection, as well as design modification, because quality begins long before a resin enters production. Asahi Kasei Plastics North America, Inc. designed and equipped its laboratory to be the most advanced in the industry. In fact, at our new state-of-the-art laboratory you'll see equipment not found anywhere else in the United States: an automated flexural strength, tensile strength, and izod impact tester, for example. The device's robotic positioning, testing, and retrieval of specimens, plus computerized recording of data, virtually eliminates human variables from determination of the exact properties of Asahi Kasei Plastics North America, Inc. products. An automated heat deflection tester — the only one of its kind in the U.S. — provides uniform testing and monitoring of flexural loading at elevated temperatures. Our laboratory also houses a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer, universal tester, Dynatup Instrumented Impact Tester, tensile creep tester with environmental chamber, Xenon Arc Weatherometer, differential scanning calorimeter, thermogravimetric analyzer, optical scanning microscope, and scanning electron microscope. Our analytical equipment is utilized to conduct new product research and support our customer's application development. Our laboratory is one of the ways Asahi Kasei Plastics North America, Inc. aims to stay one of a kind in advanced materials.