QARBONE

France

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QARBONE is an industrial materials testing and consulting laboratory located in Chassieu (Lyon metropolitan area), France. Operating as the materials science division of Groupe 6NAPSE, QARBONE delivers physicochemical analysis, technical consulting, failure analysis, and contract research across all major engineering material families, including metals, technical ceramics, glass, polymers, and multi-material composites.

The laboratory aids industrial manufacturers in qualifying raw materials, validating metal and polymer grades, and identifying contamination or defects. Equipped with advanced spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and chromatography tools, QARBONE provides agile analytical response times, serving aerospace, automotive, energy, metallurgy, medical packaging, and chemicals sectors.

Member of Groupe 6NAPSE engineering network
Accredited by COFRAC Essais (Accreditation No. 1-7332) for foreign body extraction and SEM-EDX / FTIR characterization
Certified ISO 9001 and Qualiopi certified for professional technical training in metallurgy and material science
Active member of the Axelera chemistry and process industry competitiveness cluster

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QARBONE provides extensive analytical services, failure investigations, and materials consulting across structural metals, polymers, and ceramics:

Technical Materials Consulting & Assistance: Consulting on metallurgy, polymer degradation, alloy grade conformity, thermal treatment controls, and multi-material assembly behavior.
Metallurgical Analysis: Optical emission spectrometry (OES), ICP-AES/OES, carbon-sulfur combustion determination (LECO), microhardness mapping, macro-etching, and grain size determination in steels and non-ferrous alloys.
Polymer & Composite Characterization: Identification of thermoplastic resins (PE, PVC, PA, PEEK), elastomers (EPDM, nitrile, fluorosilicones), and thermosets via FTIR, DSC, TGA, and Pyrolysis-GC/MS.
Foreign Particle & Defect Analysis: Morphology, size distribution, and chemical identification of inclusions, surface blisters, discolourations, and particulate contaminants down to the sub-micron scale using SEM-EDX.
Corrosion & Fractographic Failure Analysis: Microscopic fracture surface investigations (brittle, ductile, fatigue), pitting evaluation, and salt spray exposure testing.

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