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Background and Problem StatementQ-Lab worked to develop a correlative accelerated and outdoor testing program for an American manufacturer of high-end outdoor furniture. This company’s products are commonly installed in public places such as shared o...

Problem StatementA manufacturer of interior carpet for automobiles had no in-house testing capability to optimize the expensive UV stabilizers in their product. They found themselves spending a significant amount of time and money sending their newly...

Decoral America is the Florida-based subsidiary of Decoral, an Italian company that manufactures “decorative coating systems”. Their technology is based on a sublimation process to deposit decorative finishes on a wide variety of materials, including...

One of the world’s leading suppliers of automotive clear-coats and their automotive OEM began to notice a problem of small, permanent spots appearing on cars arriving through shipping ports near Jacksonville, Florida. They determined that the spots w...

A major global manufacturer and supplier of synthetic textiles was looking to use their Q-SUN Xe-3 to optimize the amount of UV stabilizers in their formulation,for internal cost-reduction purposes. The customer designed an experiment to test va...

With a Q-SUN Xe-3 xenon test chamber and outdoor behind-glass testing at Q-Lab Florida, a global leader in the consumer products industry conducted a set of tests on UV-inhibited and uninhibited detergent cleaners, to look for color changes. Fro...