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The R&D and production groups from ISOVER-Saint Gobain on a visit toSOLEIL

More than 60 representatives of the Saint-Gobain industrial group, including researchers from ISOVER (specialists in thermal and acoustic insulation) in Rantigny (60) and Saint Gobain Research in Aubervilliers (93), as well as officials from different European and worldwide production sites (1/3 of participants) visited SOLEIL on May 29th.

After a general presentation of SOLEIL by the Industrial Relations Officer, Celine LORY, different applications of synchrotron techniques (particularly, XPS and X-ray absorption) related to areas of special interest to ISOVER, were presented by Maria Carmen ASENSIO, then Timm WEITKAMP proposed possible uses of the future nano-tomography beamline, ANATOMIX.

The visitors were then able to interact with scientific groups at SOLEIL attached to the  SIRIUS, LUCIA, PSICHE, SAMBA, SMIS, ODE and ANTARES beamlines and see the opportunities for studying various topics, such as the (mechanical, thermal and surface), properties of glass fibers, binders (polymers used to bind fibers together), glues or glass (the influence of chemical composition on its properties), the study of new insulation materials, methods of interface analysis and characterization, the analysis of ambient air or the durability of materials, etc.

This visit to SOLEIL was organized by R&D ISOVER Saint-Gobain as part of the Annual Technical Conference in Saclay, from 27th to 29th May. This international meeting of R&D Directors, Heads of laboratories, researchers and production engineers, technicians and marketing managers ... brought together many areas of expertise: experts in thermal properties and surface properties, chemists specializing in the composition or adhesion properties of binders, specialists in industrial processes, or quality control, among others.

Philippe FONTAINE, Head of the SIRIUS beamline, presented the experimental hutch and the sample set-up on this experimental station to ISOVER Saint-Gobain engineers and scientists.