How much is the residual solvent in your packaging?

A high concentration of residual solvent can cause unpleasant odors in flexible packaging, alter the taste of food or beverages, ruin graphics (e.g. by roll blocking) and reduce their mechanical capabilities (e.g. by causing delamination).

Many converting production processes operate on two or three working shifts, While the laboratory is woring only during the office hours, using standard gas chromatographs, which provide results in times far too long for the needs of the production departments. Considering that a standard analysis takes about 45 minutes, we can optimistically estimate that the machine operator will be alerted about the residual solvent non-compliance in about a hour.
The Neptune analyzer’s quality control covers the entire process, from raw materials (such as inks, adhesives and films) to the final product (residual solvents in printed and laminated materials).

All these issues can be solved quickly, reducing economic losses due by the reproductions or rework, if intercepted on time. 30 years of experience and an independent laboratory study demonstrate the full comparability with standard laboratory gas chromatographs, using the most relevant existing methods (EN13628 and ASTM 1884)

Just 7 minutes to get a result!

Despite all traditional gas chromatographs, Neptune can be used by non-skilled personnel, even by press operators, directly in production areas. The speed of this instrument allows the correction of the production processes, reducing considerably the amount of waste and low-grade product.

Accurate analysis with capillary column

Fast capillary columns combined with hydrogen gas as carrier, can dramatically reduce the solvent separation time (approximately 3-4 minutes instead of the 15 minutes generally required by traditional lab analyzer).