Stressed plastic components
Screen plastics under defined strain or assembled-component stress to reveal crazing or cracking risks that may not appear on an unstressed coupon.
Compatibility
Cleaner and Product Material Compatibility Testing
Tandell designs material-compatibility studies around the product, substrate, concentration, contact time, temperature, stress condition, rinse, and appearance or physical endpoint relevant to the intended use.
Project pathwaysBenchmarkingDevelopmentClaims support
What we evaluate
Controlled variables. Relevant outcomes.
The final design is selected around your product format, use conditions, competitive set, target claim, and required level of control.
- Plastic crazing, cracking, whitening, and stress effects
- Metal corrosion, staining, discolouration, and appearance change
- Elastomer swelling, softening, hardness, and dimensional change
- Gloss, colour, haze, roughness, and visible surface effects
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Methods & protocols
- IKW plastic crazing and compatibility approaches
- ASTM F483 and other recognized methods where applicable
- Controlled immersion, spot, wipe, stress, and repeated-exposure protocols
- Image, colour, gloss, mass, dimension, hardness, and microscopy endpoints
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What you receive
- Comparative compatibility ranking
- Concentration and exposure-limit evidence
- Substrate-specific development data
- Clearly bounded risk and claims-support reporting
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Project coordination
- Method-selection guidance
- Sample and timing coordination
- Direct technical communication
- Clear final reporting
Products evaluated
Testing across the complete category.
Programs are adapted to the product format, marketed use, application method, substrate, soil, dose, and competitive context.
01Household, institutional, and industrial cleaners
02Degreasers, disinfectant cleaners, and maintenance products
03Car-wash, detailing, wheel, tire, glass, and interior-care products
04Concentrates, dilution-control products, wipes, sprays, foams, and immersion products
05Plastics, elastomers, metals, glass, ceramics, and finished product surfaces
Specialized programs
Go beyond a single cleaning score.
Appearance and surface change
Measure colour, gloss, haze, roughness, whitening, staining, residue, or visible change before and after controlled exposure.
Use-condition compatibility
Compare concentration, dwell time, temperature, rinse, repeated use, drying, and other application variables that influence material risk.
Related expertise
Connect application testing with measurement.
Surface tension, contact angle, foam structure, microscopy, colour, gloss, rheology, and controlled separation analysis can help explain why products perform differently.
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Plan a material compatibility study.
Our technical team will help define a practical test program around your product, benchmark, claim, or development objective.
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