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Take These Steps to Optimize Your MFR Data

Make your life easier by paying close attention to the procedural steps detailed in the test standards.

NPE2018 New Technology Focus: Robots Come to Materials- Testing Lab

Range of new testing machines include first-display of automated system that can run day and night.

Auxiliaries at NPE2018: Packing More Functions in Less Space

Auxiliary equipment suppliers are building more and more technology into their products, packing more physical and virtual functions into the same or smaller footprints.

Streamlined Design Makes Melt Flow Testing Easier and Quicker

Tinius Olsen's MP1200 melt indexer now streamlined with selectable weights.

Add Automation to Your Lab

Robots are commonplace on the production floor, cutting costs and improving efficiencies for molders and other processors. Now, those same benefits can also be achieved in the lab.

Auxiliaries AT NPE: New Controls Link Auxiliaries

Industry 4.0—the internet of things—is bringing a new level of connectivity to auxiliary equipment. Here’s a rundown of developments there, along with other news in auxiliaries from the show.

AUXILIARIES AT NPE: More Control, Flexibility, And Efficiency

These are key trends in the many kinds of auxiliary equipment displayed at this month’s show. You’ll also see equipment designed to be virtually ‘foolproof.’

How to Get Better MFI Test Results

It's the most common materials-property test performed by processors and resin suppliers alike, but it is susceptible to multiple sources of error.

K 2013: More Efficient, Flexible & User-Friendly Auxiliaries

It’s hard to generalize about auxiliary equipment, but a few trends stood out at K, including: greater energy efficiency, ease of maintenance and cleaning, controls that provide more real-time and historical process information and greater ease of use.

Auxiliaries at NPE: News in Materials Handling, Cooling, Granulating, Welding, Testing, Decorating

Auxiliary equipment takes in a broad range of functions, from materials preparation to post-mold finishing.

How to Get Better MFI Results

The MFI test is used widely among the various segments of the plastics industry. The difficulty is that any two labs can easily come up with different results, making it difficult to determine whether a material meets a desired MFI spec. Here are some reasons why such discrepancies occur and what can be done about them.

Testing & Measuring Instruments: More Versatile, Compact, Affordable

From polymer characterization to on-line bottle or preform inspection, coordinate measuring, and color sensing, new testing and measuring instruments at the NPE show in Chicago were easier to use and more compact, yet often packed higher performance than earlier versions—and sometimes with a more attractive price tag.

NPE 2006 News Wrap-Up: Testing and QC--New Lab Instruments Stress Affordability and Convenience

Thermal and mechanical testers, color and appearance sensors, vision inspection devices and CMMs—the NPE had them all in more compact, economical, and easy-to-use models.

How to Buy Universal Testing Machines

More processors today are buyingso-called ‘universal’ testers to measure tensile, flexural, compressive, and shear properties for materials evaluation, application development, and quality control. Advanced electronics have improved these instruments’ performance and ease of use—and even led to lower prices.

NPE News Wrap-Up: Testing & Measuring Instruments

There was no shortage of new developments in product inspection devices and instruments for testing color and appearance as well as mechanical, rheological, thermal, and weathering properties.

IMPACT: Which Test to Use? Which Instrument to Buy?

Impact testing is a complex and controversial subject, and one that is in the midst of change. These factors add challenge to selection of the most appropriate impact instrument for a processor's lab.

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