Materials testing company plans an impressive display including the first demonstration to the plastics industry of a low force universal testing machine
Materials testing company Lloyd Instruments is planning an impressive show of testing equipment and software at Interplas 2002.
Unveiled to the plastics industry for the first time will be the LFPlus: a new affordable low force universal testing machine, and novel long travel non-contacting infrared extensometer system, model IR 750, which uses infrared precision to measure minute sample movements during tests.
The company's highly acclaimed Nexygen MT software will be demonstrated.
This expects to be the first materials testing software to gain FDA approval for strict auditing procedures, vital in medical and pharmaceutical fields.
Davenport polymer test instruments: the MFI-10 automated melt flow indexer and HDT/Vicat will also be on show.
The new LFPlus will join other Plus series 5kN and 10kN single and twin column test instruments on the stand.
This high performance testing machine is designed for quality control tests up to 1kN.
A modular design allows customers to build a solution to match their exact needs and budget.
It accepts XLC Series loadcells or hand-held Chatillon digital force gauges as the load measuring device, with an instant plug-and-play connection.
Unlike other machines of similar capacity, the LFPlus is designed with a generous work area to test large sized samples.
Full control is possible with Nexygen FM, the company's new easy to use data analysis software, or with the more sophisticated Nexygen MT or Ondio applications builder software packages.
The new IR 750 long travel non-contacting infrared extensometer extends the precision of the company's Plus and EZ ranges, as well as LR, LRX systems and competitor machines (through an analogue interface). When plugged into a Plus or EZ machine, the extensometer is fully automatic.
It uses proven optics to follow tiny markers placed on a sample, and high resolution encoders to measure the separation between the marks during the test.
Unlike clip-on extensometers, it is ideally suited for testing flexible and ductile samples such as films, rubber and soft plastics.
Significant for all plastics manufacturers (in medical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food industries, for example) the next version of Nexygen MT will offer full traceability of test operations and data to comply with FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Electronic Records : Electronic Signatures.
The software automatically generates an audit trail, making it easy to track the history of product testing protocols. With Lloyd Instruments and Davenport testing equipment, the plastics industry can test a variety of raw materials and end products such as the tensile strength of plastic strapping, the 'slip' of plastic wrapping film, the torque of bottle tops, the peel of adhesive seals, the compressive strength of plastic containers or plastic pipes, foam packaging and much more.
Lloyd Instruments is on stand 3060 at Interplas.
