Quality Control

All products manufactured by PTE conform to ISO 2859.
Inspection level S4, AQL 0.65
All chemicals used to construct our devices are subject to internal quality control as well as testing of finished items. We maintain an on-site testing laboratory employing 1/3 million dollars in state of the art testing machinery, housed in a climate controlled dedicated laboratory. The following is a list of some of our equipment.

Thermo Jarrell Ash 61E - Inductively coupled argon plasma spectrometer.
Used to assay all metallic based oxidizers and metal fuels to an accuracy of parts per billion.

Nicolet Avatar 360 - FT-IR Spectrometer system.
Used to assay all raw materials used in the manufacture of our product against a known, good standard to guard against sub-standard supplies from vendors.

Perkin Elmer 1800/Spectra Tech IR Plan - Fourier transform microscope.
Capable of testing and identifying single particles as small as 1 micron in diameter. We have extensive chemical identification libraries, including: Commercial materials library (213), Toronto forensic library, Aldritch high resolution condensed phase library(10607) . This unit is used to assay all finished materials against a known good standard, to guard against incorrect mixtures or mixes that degrade upon processing. Also used to assay Mg/Al metal fuel particulate.

Nicolet 360/Harrick 8 meter gas cell - Fourier transform infrared spectrometer.
Capable of testing and identifying gaseous and/or airborne elements and compounds to a resolution of parts per million. Used to assay combustion gases and refine formulations in an attempt to reduce emissions.

Ocean Optics - S2000 visable spectrum optical bench.
Capable of testing light given off by any source. Used to determine the proper chemical combinations for the best color spectrum in stars and flares.

Infrared focused flash point determination cabinet.
Used to determine flash point of all finished explosive materials.

Environmental chamber.
Used to simulate effects of harsh storage and its effects on the function of finished explosive materials.

Drop hammer.
Used to determine impact sensitivity of all finished explosive materials.

As you can see we spare no expense to achieve and maintain a high standard of repeatable, reliable quality.

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