Agar Scientific is pleased to have been appointed as the exclusive distributor for Lam Plan specimen preparation equipment in the UK.

Lam Plan are based in Gaillard, France and specialise in manufacturing Lapping and Polishing solutions with an extensive range of machines and consumables to fit almost any sample preparation application. Lam Plan design their equipment with quality in mind.

Agar Scientific supply the complete range of Lam Plan's grinders, polishers and presses, along with tailor-made consumables to help customers with their polishing, grinding, lapping and general sample preparation requirements. Uniquely, Lam Plan also maintain a fully purposed test lab where customer's samples can be evaluated, and suitable protocols developed for processing. This, combined with advice on which grinding and polishing materials to use, allows the very best results to be achieved from their grinding and polishing machines.

A wide range of grinders, polishers and presses are available from Agar Scientific, including the Cutlam disc cutting machines, Smartlam grinder/polishers, Masterlam grinder/polishers and the Presslam mounting press.

A wide range of consumables are offered to be used alongside the Lam Plan machines, including polishing cloths and pads with either self-adhesive or magnetic fixings, Cameo Disc diamond polishing discs for rapid grinding of metallographic samples and a range of monocrystalline and polycrystalline diamond abrasive. Hot mounting resins have been developed and tested to suit a wide range of applications, as well as cold mounting resins as a solution for samples which do not withstand high pressures or temperatures.

More details can be found at www.agarscientific.com/lamplan