Plastics & PolymersPlastics, rubber and foams are important materials in products that we use every day. 

Breakaway Effects, a leading stunt glass manufacturer, used the EZ20 test machine to test the stiffness and flexibility of stunt …

Batching systems, whether manual or automated, are everywhere. Compounding liquid solutions or blending powdered components into a final mixture is …

Materials characterization specialists at Exeter Advanced Technologies used the EZ20 test machine to measure the behavior of paint coating.
Introduction
The worst-case …

Force measurement is used in many differing types of applications and may be accomplished with devices utilizing differing technologies. Typical …

In the past force measurement generally meant obtaining a peak load measurement on a product, part or material to verify …

A load cell is a device that is used to measure weight or force. W hen a force is applied …

During a measurement, weight acts on the load cell’s body and causes elastic deformation.  The body has some spring constant. This …

The furniture manufacturer OneLeg used the LR30K Plus materials testing machine from Lloyd Instruments to perform tensile tests and compression tests …

The Clients – Warehouses, manufacturing facilities and all customers with portability needs
The Challenge – To make a drum scale mobile with …

A plastic pipe manufacturer mixes raw ingredients together to make plastic piping.  Their facility runs 24/7 so down time must …

When selecting a supplier to fulfill your testing, calibration or measurement needs, you need to be sure that they can …

Single column force testers today represent the largest single market segment of the force testing marketplace for a number of …

Many manufacturing facilities currently have load cells installed in tank systems that are no longer operational. Most of the times …

Businesses are turning to the Internet for a wide variety of purchases, including scales. Although convenient and sometimes less expensive, …

How do you weigh product accurately in a portable tank, vessel or reactor? With a specially designed  caster load cell!
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This chapter states the requirements for balances used for materials that must be accurately weighed (see General Notices, 8.20). Unless …

Along America’s Gulf Coast, from Gulf Shores, Ala., to Layfayette, La., you will find locations for regional supermarket chain, Rouses Food Market. From …

An area Sales manager (ASM) had developed a relationship with a local pipe company and uncovered an opportunity to help them …

Fairbanks has a solid and successful track record in tank weighing assemblies, and the word is spreading. Many industrial processes need and …

The cost for hand-harvesting operations has steadily increased over the years without regard to the
delivered-in price that growers receive. Growers …

• 3,000 deaths
• 1 in every 6 Americans get sick (that’s 48 million people)
• 128,000 hospitalizations
These yearly estimates are provided …

In 2001, the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) released a study that calculated the cost of
corrosion to the United States …

What is IP69K? Is this a concern for me? If so, how can I be
protected?

Maintenance practices don’t immediately show profit or savings but good practices prevent short and long-term expenses. Here is the good …

Do not be fooled by service companies selling scale maintenance agreements that lack focus on calibration. Calibration is the most …

Our range of polymer test instruments are used worldwide in the polymer and plastics industry for QA/QC conformity of incoming …

One of the crucial factors when developing a new plastic product is testing. Only by testing the raw materials, components …

Standard

Description

ASTM D1238

This test method covers measurement of the rate of extrusion of molten resins through a die of a specified …