Many people associate automation with industrial robots or completely automated handling systems. Utilization of intelligent wizard functions or semi-automation allows the optimization of testing ...

Taking steps to automate a lab can deliver more repeatable test results and higher throughput. Plastics laboratories often face the task of examining a substantial number of comparable samples while ...

Plastics compounders routinely perform mechanical tests as part of the product development cycle. Producers often turn to universal testing machines (UTMs) to pull, stretch, bend or compress test ...

There's more going on than never-ending miles of corn fields in Nebraska — some innovative injection molding is going on, at HTI Plastics in Lincoln, Neb. Yes, this month, Best Practices takes you to ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. After completing its move of plastics testing laboratories ...

The device, called the Permatron-W Model 3/33 Plus, is a new generation of water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) equipment from Mocon (Minneapolis, MN). For the first time, units in the Model 3/33 ...

The Ocean Legacy Foundation (OLF), a nonprofit organization based in Richmond, British Columbia, has expanded its affordable plastic testing and production support services designed to support ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — California water regulators approved the world’s first requirements for testing microplastics in drinking water sources — a key step towards regulating tiny fragments that are ...