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Over 35 Years of Industry Service
The Process Development Center (PDC) offers a broad range of technical services and resources for our clients, both in traditional pulp and paper and in emerging process technologies and materials science.
What’s New
The PDC can test the Oxygen Transfer Rate (OTR) on your barrier coatings using Mocon’s OX-TRAN Model 2/22.
This unit is capable of measuring rates of 0.005-200 cc/m2 per day, and accommodates sample sizes up to 4-inch squares.
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The PDC is one of the top suppliers of cellulose nanomaterials in the world, providing nanomaterials to researchers and application developers at hundreds of businesses, laboratories, and educational institutions in over forty countries.
Whether we’re trailblazing new nanotechnologies, performing sophisticated chemical analysis, or providing innovative pulp and paper solutions, the Process Development Center remains at the cutting edge of chemical engineering and material science.
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