Quality Controls
Lorad takes quality control very seriously. When you choose us as your supplier of advanced inorganic materials, you can be sure that you are receiving a quality product.
Lorad is firmly committed to achieving excellence both in product quality and customer service. We employs strict quality controls at each stage of our manufacturing processes to ensure that the characteristics and properties of each material we manufacture are documented, reproducible, and consistent from batch to batch. In this way, we are able to deliver to our customers a wide variety of materials that are of 99.99 or greater purity and are also able to custom synthesize each of our materials to meet specific requirements of composition, phase, purity, and particle size.
Our quality management system is intended to improve and sustain the overall performance of our various manufacturing systems and allows us to scale and tailor our processes to meet the wide variety of demands for particular materials with consistently competitive pricing structures. As the demand for your product applications grows—from product development, to a pilot program, to full-scale commercialization—Lorad can seamlessly scale up our production to meet growing demand. We have the production capabilities to make multi-ton quantities of many of our materials.
Quality from Start to Finish
Conduct extensive research into our suppliers to ensure we source only the best precursors to synthesize our materials.
Manufacture our materials with rigorously documented procedures that use multiple quality checkpoints during synthesis.
Provide our customers with the required analysis to confirm the quality of our materials meets our customer's requirements.
Our quality controls start at the precursor acquisition phase where we conductive extensive research on our suppliers to ensure that we use only the best, highest purity, precursors to synthesize our materials. When those materials arrive at our facility, we inspect them for quality and ensure conformance with our technical specifications through a variety of appropriate analytical tests. When a material is cleared for use in a synthesis process, our scientists, engineers, and technicians, run thoroughly documented procedures that result in the production of consistent finished materials. Our procedures often involve multiple checkpoints in the synthesis process to assess the quality of the ongoing synthesis. After a synthesis has been completed a finished material will undergo additional analytical testing to ensure that all our manufactured materials meet the precise specifications set out by our customers. When a finished material is shipped, Lorad will supply a certificate of analysis or any other required analytical testing results to the customer to confirm that the material meets all the customer’s specifications.
As part of Lorad’s commitment to producing the highest quality inorganic materials and continual improvement as a company, Lorad has made the decision to adopt the ISO 9001:2015 quality management system and is currently going through the process of reconfiguring our current quality systems to adopt this standard. Upon the completion of this process and an independent audit, our certificate will be posted here.
At Lorad, our scientists, engineers, technicians, sales, and administrative staff work in close collaboration to ensure the only acceptable result—a satisfied customer. It is one of our foundational beliefs that ultimately quality is not what we say it is, it is what the customer says it is.