PT ZONE: Testing & Quality Control
A Processor’s Advice on How to Get Moisture Testing RightFollow these four steps to ensure your results are on target. More (+)
‘Breakthrough’ in Nylon CharacterizationWEB EXCLUSIVE: Malvern Instruments, Westborough, Mass., has a novel gel permeation chromatography (GPC) method for characterizing nylon that is said to significantly reduce the cost of analysis while simultaneously improving safety, compared with existing methods. More (+)
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Auxiliaries at NPE: News in Materials Handling, Cooling, Granulating, Welding, Testing, Decorating
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Auxiliary equipment takes in a broad range of functions, from materials preparation to post-mold finishing.
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There will be an extraordinary range of new auxiliary equipment on display at the show.
Lab Investment Pays Off For Major Tube & Profile House12/27/2011Plastics Technology
Teel started a testing laboratory in 2010 to support quality assurance and new product development and to troubleshoot manufacturing issues as they arise.
Free Smartphone App Calculates IV for PET Blends12/1/2011Plastics Technology
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How to Get Better MFI Results8/23/2011Plastics 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.
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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: CMM & Vision Systems Packaged with Free ‘Extras’
- Mitutoyo America Corporation 1/29/2013
- AUXILIARIES: Hand-Held, Super-Accurate Micrometer
- Mitutoyo America Corporation 4/29/2012
- AUXILIARIES: Melt Indexer Is Accurate, Stable
- Tinius Olsen Testing Machine Co., Inc. 3/28/2012
- AUXILIARIES: Fast, Reliable FT-IR Chemical Imaging Analysis
- Thermo Scientific 11/22/2011
- TOOLING: Roundness/Cylindricity Measurement
- Mitutoyo America Corporation 10/5/2011
