CERTIFIED REFERENCE MATERIALS
“We provide our customers with peace of mind that their analytical processes are tested with reference materials that they can trust”
Pilbara Standards is an ISO9001: 2015 specialist producer of customised Certified Reference Materials (CRM), established in 2012 to provide more choice to the minerals industry. Our expertise is in manufacture and certification of coarse CRM, and made-to-order pulverised CRM.
COARSE CRM
We have in-house capacity for sample receival, drying, crushing, screening to size, homogenisation, sample -division and bagging. We use best-practice sample preparation and homogenisation techniques, and all aspects of the process are customisable to clients specific requirements.
Our proprietary design rotary sample dividers (RSD) can make a diverse range of sample weights and divisions of coarse CRM from a range of batch sizes from <1t to in excess of 40t, without compromising the sample division process. With various division combination possibilities, we can manufacture to a client specified mass per sample from <1kg to 4kg per sample without introducing sample systematic bias.
Pilbara Standards’ custom-built batch capacity RSD is able to deliver in excess of 10,000 samples for commonly requested sample weights. This provides mining and laboratory clients with:
Long-run control charts to monitor performance over time.
Sufficient material to share between multiple users or sites.
Economies of scale giving cost savings per unit.
PULVERISED CRM
We have in-house capabilities to pulverise, screen to size, homogenise and package pulverised CRM. Standard minerals industry equipment cannot provide the product quality required for pulverised CRM's, our manufacturing process uses pharmaceutical grade equipment.
COARSE CRM
We have in-house capacity for sample receival, drying, crushing, screening to size, homogenisation, sample -division and bagging. We use best-practice sample preparation and homogenisation techniques, and all aspects of the process are customisable to clients specific requirements.
Our proprietary design rotary sample dividers (RSD) can make a diverse range of sample weights and divisions of coarse CRM from a range of batch sizes from <1t to in excess of 40t, without compromising the sample division process. With various division combination possibilities, we can manufacture to a client specified mass per sample from <1kg to 4kg per sample without introducing sample systematic bias.
Pilbara Standards’ custom-built batch capacity RSD is able to deliver in excess of 10,000 samples for commonly requested sample weights. This provides mining and laboratory clients with:
Long-run control charts to monitor performance over time.
Sufficient material to share between multiple users or sites.
Economies of scale giving cost savings per unit.
PULVERISED CRM
We have in-house capabilities to pulverise, screen to size, homogenise and package pulverised CRM. Standard minerals industry equipment cannot provide the product quality required for pulverised CRM's, our manufacturing process uses pharmaceutical grade equipment.
CERTIFICATION
Pilbara Standards manages the entire certification process, from samples randomly pre-selected from the production stream, laboratory selection, analytical technique selection, sample submission, data compilation and verification, laboratory data analysis using appropriate ISO standards and guidelines, and final certification.
Our reference materials are certified, whilst most in-house produced blanks are uncertified with unspecified analyte variances.