The mission of the non-profit organization Coalia is to support and provide services to Québec companies and organizations in the mineral technology and plastics sectors. It carries out applied research, technical assistance, training and information for both sectors.
Services offered at Coalia include formulation development, implementation and manufacturing processes, material processing and characterization, and product design assistance. Coalia also provides services in the mineral sector that include tests and trials for preparation, crushing, separation, classification, characterization and analysis of minerals and aggregates. Coalia supports the manufacture of high value-added products (sand tests, whiteness tests, hardness, quality control).
Médias
Advanced materials
- Industrial use of innovative technical fillers in polymers
- Material development and Complex assembly development
Mineral technology
- Development of a flotation nickel recovery process
- Development of a polymerizable sand
- Enrichment of a magnetic nickel concentrate by selective gravimetric method
- Electrostatic separation of particles improved by surface treatment
- Manufacture of a mineralized core for a fire door
- Purification of a clay
Plastics
- Design of plastic parts and products and manufacture of prototypes
- Development of an adhesive polyurethane foam
- Development of a highly conductive polyethylene (PE) for geothermal applications
- Development of bioplastics for food packaging
- Use of nanoparticles of clay and talc as functional fillers in polymers
- Recycling and recovery of plastics
Mineralogy
- Attractor, micronizer
- Crushers and grinders
- Flotation equipment
- Furnaces
- Magnetic, electrostatic, gravimetric separators, etc.
Physicochemical characterization
- Abrasion measuring device
- Aging chambers
- Atomic absorption apparatus
- Conductivity meter
- Flow rate apparatus
- Granulometers (laser, sedigraph)
- Mechanical analysis: traction and impact devices, durometers, etc.
- Optical microscope (confocal, polarized light, reflected light)
- Pycnometer and densitometer
- Rheometer
- Thermal analysis: DSC, TGA
- Thermomechanical analysis: DMA, DMA, TFC
- UV-visible spectrometer, IR-TF spectrometer, Raman spectrometer
- X-ray fluorescence devices
Plastics
- Injection molding machines
- Single screw extruders
- Double screw extruders
- Internal mixer
- Compression presses
- Etc.
- 671, boulevard Frontenac Ouest, porte # 7C, Thetford Mines, G6G 1N1
- 418 338-6410
- Philippe Bébin
- General Manager
- 418 338-6410, ext. 355
- pbebin@coalia.ca
