Zwick USA

There will be an extraordinary range of new auxiliary equipment on display at the show.

From materials drying, feeding, and blending to process heating/cooling, scrap reclaiming, testing, welding, and decorating—the K 2010 show this month in Dusseldorf, Germany, will have news in all categories of auxiliary equipment.

A new robotic system for testing mechanical properties of flexible specimens such as plastic films allows unattended testing to be carried out overnight and on weekends and also facilitates testing by unsupervised or relatively unskilled operators.

Zwick USA, Kennesaw, Ga., has launched its Touch PC display to make universal testers and melt indexers even easier to operate.

WEB EXCLUSIVE Zwick USA, Kennesaw, Ga., has launched its Touch PC display, designed to make materials-testing machines such as universal testers and melt indexers even easier to operate.

A line of universal testing machines has been expanded to include four load capacities and three height combinations to suit most QC applications and laboratory requirements for testing materials and components.

A new melt indexer with advanced heating and temperature control and other new and improved features was unveiled at the recent K 2007 show in Dusseldorf.

A new line of instruments measures both heat-distortion temperature (HDT) and Vicat softening temperature of thermoplastics as described in ISO 10350-1.

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.

A pendulum impact tester that can perform Charpy, Izod, tensile impact, and Dynstat tests is new from Zwick USA, Kennesaw, Ga.

A new test bench is designed for dynamic fatigue testing of flexible foams according to ISO 3385 and ASTM D 3574 standards or other specifications of automobile OEMs.