PT ZONE: Testing & Quality Control
Lab Investment Pays Off For Major Tube & Profile HouseTeel started a testing laboratory in 2010 to support quality assurance and new product development and to troubleshoot manufacturing issues as they arise. More (+)
Free Smartphone App Calculates IV for PET BlendsWEB EXCLUSIVE: PET Packaging specialist Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI) has launched a free app that calculates the intrinsic viscosity (IV) of blends of virgin and recycled PET. More (+)
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How to Get Better MFI Results
8/23/2011Plastics Technology
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.
Acquisitions in Additives, Testing Equipment8/23/2011Plastics Technology
PCC (Plastics Color Corp.), Calumet City, Ill., a maker of color and additive concentrates and compounds, has acquired Polysource LLC and its Pinnacle Color subsidiary in Tempe, Ariz.
Automation & Waste Reduction: Medical Molder's Prescription for Efficiency7/26/2011Plastics Technology
Vision Technical Molding in Manchester, Conn., doesn’t believe in standing still.
Taking the Temperature of Mold Productivity2/23/2011Plastics Technology
Increasing traffic in transfer tooling from molders that have shuttered operations or are unable to successfully produce parts is driving interest in a long-established but under-utilized diagnostic technique for injection molding.
Virtual Reality Software Saves Time & Cost in Color Formulation2/23/2011Plastics Technology
Color is a measurable property, but it is also a subjective quality dependent on individual perception.
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OVERVIEW:
Testing & Quality Control
There are a wide variety of instruments used to maintain part quality in processing. Materials companies and compounders typically use rheometers, tensile testers and other laboratory instruments that help predict how its material will behave in the real world once it is made into a part. Compounders and processors alike rely on color-matching and formulation devices to keep quality consistent.
Product Announcements
- AUXILIARIES: Fast, Reliable FT-IR Chemical Imaging Analysis
- Thermo Scientific 11/22/2011
- TOOLING: Roundness/Cylindricity Measurement
- Mitutoyo America Corporation 10/5/2011
- AUXILIARIES: Upgraded Color-Matching Software
- Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. 9/30/2011
- AUXILIARIES: Versatile, Compact, Benchtop Spectrophotometers
- Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. 7/27/2011
- BLOW MOLDING: Flying-Head Leak Tester Gives High Output, Easy Changeovers
- Amsler Equipment Inc., W. 7/27/2011
