A technical comparison of electric and manual pencil hardness testing shows how speed, operator influence and automation affect coating hardness accuracy.
A reader from Vietnam asks Joe if there is a way to reduce the hardness of powder coatings. She is using a polyester resin for a powder coating with a pencil hardness of 3H. However, her customer requires 1H hardness.
With greater flexibility than limited traditional equipment, modern, multi-functional instruments can ensure reliable coating performance by measuring critical characteristics like friction, peel, wear, and scratch resistance.
Sensory Analytics has relocated into a larger facility in Greensboro, North Carolina, to help meet rising demand for its SpecMetrix® measurement solutions.
With a probe-in-pen design, Phascope Paint measures non-destructive coating thickness of non-conductive coating materials on steel or iron and on non-ferrous metals.
The SpecMetrix® Dry Film Thickness (DFT QA) Coating Measurement System meets coil industry need for accurate, non-destructive coating measurement data in real-time.
K ALPHA has acquired Bowman Analytics, its long-time partner for X-ray fluorescence (XRF) instrumentation for coating thickness measurement, elemental analysis, and solution analysis.
The new SmarTest, consisting of an app and a wireless sensor, offers a solution for measuring coating thickness with the help of smart phones and tablets.
