Test reports contents 

 
Sr. No.  Test Standard  Description  Lab Name & Country 

1  ASTM E84  Fire Reaction Test  Thomas Bell, UAE 

2  ASTM C411  Hot Surface Measurement  R & Services, USA 
3  ASTM C518  Thermal conductivity  TUV, Singapore &  DCL,UAE 
4  ASTM C534  Dimensional stability  R & Services, USA 
5  ASTM C209  Water absorption  R & Services, USA 
6  ISO 354   Sound absorption  DARL, UAE 
7  ASTM E96  Water vapour permeability  DCL,UAE 
8  BS EN 12087  Water absorption  DCL,UAE 
9  BS EN 12086  µ Value  TUV, Singapore 
10  IMO MSC 61(67)  Surface Flammability  Bodycote, UK 
11  BS EN ISO 5659‐2  Smoke density  TUV, Singapore 
12  ASTM E96  Water vapour permeability  DCL,UAE 
13  BS EN 12087  Water absorption  DCL,UAE 
14  BS 476 Part 6  Class O  TUV, Singapore  
15  BS 476 Part 7  Class 1  TUV, Singapore  
16  ASTM C871  Chemical analysis  EXOVA,UAE 
17  FMVSS302  Flammability test for automobile  NTA, USA 
18  DIN EN 14706  Temperature range  TUV, Singapore 
19  ISO 22196  Antimicrobial Resistance  Ultrafresh, Canada 
20  ASTM G21  Antifungal Resistance   Ultrafresh, Canada 
21  CFC Free    Al hoty, UAE 
22  ASTM D5116  VOC Level  Cetec, Australia 
23  EN 717‐1  Formaldehyde  Wimpey, UAE 
24  ODP & GWP Values    Bureau Veritas, UAE 
25  ASTM D1149  Ozone test  TUV, Singapore 
26  ASTM D3574  Compression set  Al hoty, UAE 
27  DIN EN 13468  Sodium ,Silicate & Chloride  MPA, Germany 
28  DIN 1988  leachable chlorides, nitride and  MPA, Germany  
ammonia according to DIN 1988 
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Construction Materials Laboratory Section - Structural Unit
TEST REPORT
APPARENT DENSITY

Report No: 100073379 Request No: EMTX-2017-028389

Project No: PS-516 Report Date: 30/05/2017

Project Name: TESTING SERVICE FOR HIRA INDUSTRIES LLC
Consultant: NA

Contractor: HIRA INDUSTRIES LLC

Location: HIRA INDUSTRIES LLC,RAS AL KHAIMAH

Source: HIRA INDUSTRIES LLC - RAK

Sample Description: ELASTOMERIC INSULATION
Sampling Date/Time: 06/05/2017 04:00 PM Lot Number: 4E17
Receiving Date/Time: 15/05/2017 10:50 AM Lot Size: 1000 Square metre
Sample Size: 5 pieces Sender No: NG
Material/Mix type: Laying Date/Production Date: 03/05/2017

Nominal Size / Working Block Size L * T * H (mm) : 40

TEST RESULTS
PARAMETERS RESULTS
SAMPLE TYPE AEROFOAM NBR/FLEXICELL NBR
SUPPORT / FACING NIL
NOM. THICKNESS (mm) : 40
NOM. DENSITY (kg/m3) : 60
SPECIFICATION LIMIT (kg/m3) NG

SPECIMEN NOM. LENGTH (mm) 1000

SPECIMEN NOM. WIDTH (mm) 500
SPECIMEN NOM. THICKNESS (mm) 40
PRE-COND. TEMP, RH & DURATION 23 deg C, 50% RH & 48 Hr.
TEST TEMPERATURE & RH 23 deg C, 50% RH

SPECIMEN NO 1 2 3 4 5
APPARENT DENSITY (kg/Cubic m) 70.5 72.0 72.5 72.5 74.0

AVG. APPARENT DENSITY (kg/Cubic 72.3

m)

Sampled By: ANKIT JOSHI Tested By: NIMIAH

Samples Brought By: ANKIT JOSHI Testing Date: 16/05/2017 09:06 AM
Sampling Method: NOT GIVEN Sampling Report No:
Test Method: BS EN 1602: 2013 Test Method Variation: NIL

Remarks: THIS REPORT REPRESENTS THE SUBMITTED SAMPLES ONLY.

This Report is computer approved and authorized by Structural Unit

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 Dubai Central Laboratory
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TEST REPORT
APPARENT DENSITY

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 Zentrum für Konstruktionswerkstoffe
Staatliche Materialprüfungsanstalt Darmstadt
Fachgebiet und Institut für Werkstoffkunde
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Oechsner

English version without legal liability

Test Report F 17 0236

1st copy

Client: Hira Industries LLC

Al Ghail Industrial Park
Ras al Khaimah
United Arab Emirates
PO BOX 9013
Order of: 2017/01/26 Party ordering/reference: ---
Subject of order: Testing of the insulation material with the designation
"Aerofoam NBR/Flexicell NBR "
for leachable chlorides, nitride and ammonia according to DIN 1988

Material tested: Sections of a black foamed rubber plate with a wall thickness of approx. 25mm

Provision clause: German is official language of MPA Darmstadt statements.

In case of doubt or dispute due to textual, grammatical, semantical, hermeneutical or
linguistical provisions to this English research report – in particular within legal
procedures – MPA Darmstadt reserves the right of explanation in German language.

Sampling: The test material was delivered by the costumer.

Samples received: 2017/04/21
Date of testing: 2017/05/31
Sample whereabouts: The test material will be disposed after six month.

Staatliche Materialprüfungsanstalt Darmstadt Pages: -3-

Werkstoffanalytik – Chemische Analytik Tables: -2-
Grafenstraße 2, 64283 Darmstadt Figures: ---
Attachments: ---
Date of the report: 2017/06/02 Reference: F/Hh/Hl/hl

Managing Director Official in charge

by proxy

Dr.-Ing. Holger Hoche Dr.-Ing. Rainer Hill

The test results and statements presented in this test report refer exclusively to the indicated test material. The reproduction, duplication, translation or use of this report for advertising
purposes – no matter wether unabridged, abridged or in extracts – requires the written consent of the State Materials Testing Institute Darmstadt.
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1 Object of the Testing

The task was to test a section of an insulation material labelled "Aerofoam NBR/Flexicell NBR” to establish a
quantitative assessment of its level of water-extractable chloride, ammonia as well as nitride contents with a
view to prevent stress crack corrosion on copper and chromium-nickel materials for a rating as per DIN 1988
part 200, edition May 2012. Simultaneously, the pH value of the aqueous extract is tested.
The following sample material was provided by the client for the purpose of testing:
 Sections of a black foamed insulation plate with a wall thickness of approximately 25 mm, labelled
“AEROFOAM NBR”

2 Performance of the Testing

The water-extractable chloride, nitride and ammonium contents as well as the pH value of the aqueous extracts
should be determined.
The extraction was conducted using a process proposed for the measurement of water-extractable ammonia in
foam insulation material (gwf - Wasser, Abwasser, 126 (1985) H.9, page 498):
"Ten grams of the sample material, cut into approximately 10-mm cubes, are placed in a 1-litre beaker (tall
version) with 300ml of deionized water. The beaker is covered with a beaker cover, heated to 80°C while being
stirred with a magnetic stirrer and kept at that temperature for 1 hour. Then the water is poured out and the
sample material rinsed three times with 50ml of water each time. In the total extract or an aliquot part,
chloride, nitrite and ammonium levels are measured using the standard procedure, and expressed as mass
percentages of the insulating material."

3 Results
The test conducted on the material sample labelled "AEROFOAM NBR" in the way as described in chapter 2
yielded the following levels - expressed as mas.-% - after filtration and potentiometric respectively photometric
analysis of the eluate as means of double determinations as shown in table 1.

Parameter Aerofoam NBR/Flexicell

NBR
[mas.-%]

Ammonia (NH3) 0.03 ± 0.01

Nitrite (NO2-) <0.0005

Chloride (Cl-) 0.002 ± 0.001

Table No. 1
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Furthermore, the following pH value was determined as shown in table 2.

pH Value

7,03 ± 0.06

Table No. 2

4 Assessment
According to standard DIN 1988 ("Technical Rules for Drinking Water Installations, Prevention of Corrosions
Damage and Calculus Build-up"), part 200, paragraph 14.2.5 „Compatibility with pipe materials“, Version of
May 2012, the following requirements have been specified, among other things:
"Insulating materials for tubes of stainless steels must not exceed a mass content of 0.05 % of water-soluble chloride
ions."
Furthermore, it says:
„Insulations for copper materials must be free of nitride (mass percentage rate<0.01 %) and must not contain an
ammonia mass content of more than 0.2 %.”

These requirements are completely fulfilled by the tested insulation material labelled "Aerofoam NBR/Flexicell
NBR”.
 Zentrum für Konstruktionswerkstoffe
Staatliche Materialprüfungsanstalt Darmstadt
Fachgebiet und Institut für Werkstoffkunde
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Oechsner

English version without legal liability

Test Report F 17 0237.1

1st copy

Client: Hira Industries LLC

Al Ghail Industrial Park
Ras al Kaimah
United Arab Emirates
PO BOX 9013
Order of: 2017/01/26 Party ordering/reference: ---
Subject of order: Testing of insulation material with specification
„Aerofoam NBR/Flexicell NBR“
for water soluble ions of chloride, fluoride, silicate and sodium as well as the
determination of pH value in accordance with DIN EN 13468

Material tested: A section of a black foamed insulation board with a wall thickness of approx. 25 mm

Provision clause: German is official language of MPA Darmstadt statements.

In case of doubt or dispute due to textual, grammatical, semantical, hermeneutical or
linguistical provisions to this English research report – in particular within legal
procedures – MPA Darmstadt reserves the right of explanation in German language.

Sampling: The test material was delivered by the costumer.

Samples received: 2017/04/26
Date of testing: 2017/05/19 till 2017/06/02
Sample whereabouts: The test material will be disposed after six month.

Staatliche Materialprüfungsanstalt Darmstadt Pages: -3-

Werkstoffanalytik – Chemische Analytik Tables: -1-
Grafenstraße 2, 64283 Darmstadt Figures: ---
Attachments: ---
Date of the report: 2017/06/02 Reference: F/F5/Hh/Hl

Managing Director Official in charge

by proxy

Dr.-Ing. Holger Hoche Dr.-Ing. Rainer Hill

The test results and statements presented in this test report refer exclusively to the indicated test material. The reproduction, duplication, translation or use of this report for advertising
purposes – no matter wether unabridged, abridged or in extracts – requires the written consent of the State Materials Testing Institute Darmstadt.
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1 Object of the Testing

The ratio of water-soluble chloride, fluoride, silicate and sodium ions in a foamed insulation material with the
specification “Aerofoam NBR/Flexicell NBR”, as well as the pH value of the aqueous extract, is to be
determined as requested by the order in accordance with DIN EN 13468 “Thermal insulating products for
building equipment and industrial installations – Determination of trace quantities of water soluble chloride,
fluoride, silicate, and sodium ions and pH”, from the edition dated December 2001.
The following specimen material was delivered by the client for testing purposes: A section of a black, foamed
insulation board with a wall thickness of approx. 25mm.

2 Performance of the Testing

Determination of the water-extractable chloride, fluoride, silicate, and sodium ions as well as pH values of the
aqueous extracts
The extraction was carried out with 400ml of deionized water on a section of the insulation material weighing
7,5g, in accordance with DIN EN 13468, Table 1, at a testing temperature of 100°C and a leaching time of 0,5h.

The determination of the chloride and fluoride anions was carried out using ion chromatography (IC) in
accordance with sections 7.2.2.2 and 7.2.3.2 of the standard.
The determination of the silicate and the sodium content of the extract were made using inductively coupled
plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) in accordance with sections 7.2.4.3 and/or 7.2.5.3.
The pH value was determined using a pH measurement device in accordance with section 7.2.6 of the standard.

3 Results of the tests

The tests on the specimen material “Aerofoam NBR/Flexicell NBR” described under item 2 of the report
resulted in the contents (based on the amount of insulation material weighed) set out in Table 1.

Parameter Measurement value Measurement value

Sodium as Na+ <5 mg/kg <0,0005 w/w%

Silicate as SiO32- 40 mg/kg 0,004 w/w%

Chloride as Cl- 53 mg/kg 0,0053 w/w%

Fluoride as F- <1 mg/kg <0,0001 w/w%

pH value 7,74 --

Table 1: Analysis results of the aqueous extracts

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4 Evaluation of the test results

Concerning the evaluation of the test results, no generally applicable statement is contained either in the above-
mentioned testing standard or in DIN EN 14304 “Thermal insulation products for building equipment and
industrial installations – Factory made flexible elastomeric foam (FEF) products – Specification”, edition dated
March 2016. Rather, DIN EN 14304 states in section 4.3.6, entitled “Low quantities of water-soluble ions and
pH value“, that the manufacturer must specify the amounts of the mentioned parameters. In this regard the
“nominal value” for fluoride and chloride may not be exceeded, while for sodium and silicate the amounts are
not permitted to fall below it. The pH value may not deviate from the “nominal value” by more than 1.0.
The “nominal value” for the tested product is not, however, known to the signatory person (official in charge).
Therefore no statements can be made as to whether or not the product meets the requirements.