The Importance of Material Testing in Modern Industries

Material testing is integral to ensuring that the materials used in everyday products are safe, durable, and reliable. For instance, in the packaging industry, the materials must withstand various stresses, including environmental exposure, physical handling, and long-term storage. As a material testing lab equipment supplier, Labthink offers a broad selection of testing instruments that help labs assess a material’s suitability for its intended purpose. By using advanced testing solutions, we help ensure that materials meet the industry standards for strength, flexibility, and longevity.

What Happens in a Material Testing Laboratory?

At its core, a material testing lab is a facility that uses specialized instruments to measure the properties of materials. These properties can include tensile strength, permeability, elasticity, and thermal resistance. Testing is performed under controlled conditions to simulate real-world stresses and environmental factors. At Labthink, we provide various testing instruments, such as gas permeability testers, moisture analyzers, and tensile testing machines, that allow labs to perform these critical tests. Our material testing lab equipment is designed to provide precise, repeatable results, ensuring that industries receive reliable data for their material choices.

How Labthink Supports Testing Laboratories

For a material testing lab to function effectively, it requires high-quality, reliable testing instruments. As a trusted testing instruments supplier, Labthink offers state-of-the-art equipment that ensures accurate results across various tests. Our equipment features user-friendly interfaces, sophisticated sensors, and integrated data management systems that make it easy for labs to track results and generate actionable insights. Whether it’s assessing the strength of packaging materials or determining their permeability, our equipment is tailored to meet the diverse needs of our clients, helping them maintain high standards in their testing processes.

Conclusion

In summary, material testing laboratories serve an essential function in industries that rely on the strength and reliability of their materials. With the right material testing lab equipment, labs can ensure that their products meet the necessary safety and performance criteria. At Labthink, we provide a full range of testing instruments to help labs deliver precise and dependable results. As a material testing lab equipment supplier, we’re committed to supporting laboratories worldwide in their efforts to maintain the highest quality standards for materials used in various industries.

Material Testing: Analyzing the Building Blocks of Your Product

Material testing is essential to determine the physical properties of the materials used in your products. Whether it’s plastic, metal, or textile, understanding how a material behaves under certain conditions is key to its durability and performance. At Labthink, we offer specialized testing instruments for packaging materials to evaluate strength, elasticity, and resistance to environmental factors. These tests help manufacturers optimize the material choice for their products, ensuring they meet both safety and performance requirements.

Durability and Endurance Testing: Testing Product Longevity

Durability and endurance testing are vital for understanding how a product will perform over time. From food packaging to medical devices, products need to withstand wear and tear without compromising quality. Product R&D testing services from Labthink include comprehensive tests to simulate various real-world conditions, like temperature fluctuations, pressure, and exposure to chemicals. This type of testing helps manufacturers identify potential failures and make improvements before the product reaches consumers.

Safety and Compliance Testing: Meeting Industry Standards

Safety is a top priority in any industry, especially when products are used in sensitive environments. At Labthink, our testing instruments supplier capabilities include providing solutions that help companies meet regulatory compliance standards. For example, when it comes to food packaging, we offer testing solutions that assess how packaging interacts with food and whether it leaches harmful substances. These tests are crucial for ensuring your products are safe for consumers and comply with local and international standards.

Conclusion

With Labthink’s comprehensive range of testing instruments and product R&D testing services, companies can gain valuable insights into their product’s performance and ensure that it meets the highest quality standards. Whether it’s material testing, durability, or safety compliance, we offer solutions that support the growth and success of your business. By partnering with Labthink, you gain access to advanced technology and expertise that ensures your products are tested accurately and thoroughly, providing the confidence that your product will perform reliably in the real world.

Flex Durability Tester - Labthink

Labthink C681M Flex Durability Tester, independently developed and produced by Labthink, can simulate the behaviors of flex durability, folding and pressure damage of films in the process of production, processing, transportation, etc., and detect the change of the number of pinholes or barrier performance of the composite film before and after the test, so as to make scientific quantitative analysis and judgment on the flex durability performance of the material.

C681M Flex Durability Tester is suitable for all kinds of flexible film, composite film, coating film and other materials of flex durability performance tests. In terms of design, in addition to absorbing the essence of similar foreign equipment, it is more innovative in many aspects. The tester selects imported brand servo control system, and the displacement is much more precise with ultra-low failure rate and super-long service life. Intelligent design of dual security protection and automatic reset make the tests more accurate and safer. The tester is designed with four working stations that can test four samples at the same time and is equivalent to four single-station flex durability testers working at the same time which has greatly improved the detection efficiency. The tester provides five standard test modes, i.e., A, B, C, D, E Multiple test modes, and F test mode that can control the times. Multiple testing modes are flexible and highly efficient, which can greatly meet a variety of testing needs of different customers. Industrial touch screen, one-click operation, intuitive operation interface, remote upgrade and maintenance, Chinese and English bilingual operation interface, automatic data storage and automatic memory of power loss and data protection are all available.

Labthink is an international supplier of packaging materials testing instruments and testing services. It is committed to helping customers to deal with packaging problems through the improvement of packaging testing technology and the research and development of testing instruments, and helping the quality and safety of packaging related industries. For more details, please click to Labthink or email to info@labthink.com for consultation. Labthink is looking forward to enhancing technical exchanges and cooperation with enterprises and institutions in the industry.

While employees at Labthink headquarters are fighting the war against the novel coronavirus and speeding up the production of test instruments needed by the medical frontline, a good new from European market came up. On February 20, Labthink Europe Branch was registered and established in Frankfurt, Germany! This is another milestone in the process of global development of the company.

In June last year, Mr. Fu Hanli, director of China regional affairs of Frankfurt Rhein Main GmbH, Germany (first from the right above), and his delegation visited Labthink China headquarters to discuss the preparation and landing of Labthink European branch in Germany. During the meeting, Mr. Jiang Yunzhong (second from left above), president of the Labthink, introduced the company’s global development ideas to German guests. Over the years, the company has benefited from the establishment of international development strategy, aiming at the grand development vision of “being sustainable and world class”, and continuously cultivated the international market. In 2012, the company entered the United States and established a branch in Boston, opening up the exploration of the international market. One belt, one road, one belt, one road, and the other is China. Led by the US headquarters, the company’s business has been spreading the whole continent. The establishment of Guangzhou branch has spread the business throughout South Asia and Southeast Asia. With the advancing of the one belt and one road initiative, the business has entered the whole Central and Western Asia. Through nearly ten years of international market exploration, Labthink has more than 20000 global clients, which makes the pace of global development of Labthink steadier.

Mr. Fu Hanli spoke highly of and praised the company’s development in the international market for many years. He said that as a global technology-based manufacturing enterprise, Labthink investing in Germany is a perfect choice, Germany will bring a lot of help to the company in the fields of technology, manufacturing, R & D, etc. As a local government in Frankfurt, it will also do a good job in helping Labthink with all-round services in terms of location, talents, tax, law, humanities, etc. It is also understood that Chinese enterprises, including DJI, the global leader in the field of UAV, Kingfa technology, the world’s leading manufacturer of new materials, Mindray medical, the largest manufacturer of medical equipment and network medical technology in China, and other well-known global enterprises, have all established their European branches in Frankfurt.

In the eight months since June last year, the company has made a comprehensive and in-depth assessment of the feasibility and matching of the European project, which is located in Frankfurt, Germany. Senior management has visited Europe for many times, and exchanged ideas for many times. By January 2020, all matters were finalized. The project of the European branch was approved by the Ministry of Commerce of China, and it is allowed to invest in Germany to establish a subsidiary. Relevant certificates and documents will be certified by the German Embassy in China through the foreign office. The European local team will be formed, and the professional manager will be the local personnel from Germany. In February, the Chinese headquarters began to train the European team, and sent personnel to Germany to handle the relevant procedures of enterprise registration.

Labthink Europe project director said that in recent years, the company’s performance in the European market has achieved continuous growth, and the European market share has been expanding, leading the Chinese packaging testing instrument industry to open up the European market. Based on the analysis of the huge capacity of the European market, as well as the expectations and concerns of European clients for Labthink, combined with the company’s global development strategy, it is very urgent and necessary to establish a European branch! After the establishment of the European branch, it will become the second international headquarters of Labthink after the U.S. headquarters. It will also realize the full coverage of Labthink products and services to the world’s developed countries!

The establishment of the European branch is a major decision for the enterprise to continue to work hard and to further develop the international market! It is a necessary new measure for us to fully connect with the advanced technology and high-end demand of the international market and fully participate in the international market competition! ” Mr. Jiang Yunzhong, president of the company, said that in the future, the global development layout of Labthink will be more sound and comprehensive, which to a large extent will accelerate our progress towards high-quality development. Whether it is the international influence of the brand, or the future development of globalization, in all aspects, will bring positive changes and influence!

In recent years, Labthink attaches great importance to in-depth exchanges with the international market, invites international friends to learn about Labthink, adheres to the concept of “more understanding and more trust”, builds Labthink “home diplomacy” platform, and jointly holds “2018 International Green Packaging Development Summit Forum” with China Export Commodity Packaging Research Institute and Shandong product quality inspection institute in 2018 ”, hosted the “2018 World Packaging Organization (WPO) board Conference”, experts and scholars from more than 30 countries in the global food, packaging, pharmaceutical and other packaging fields jointly discussed and exchanged the development plan of the world soft packaging testing industry, which is an international event of in-depth dialogue between Labthink and the global packaging industry. The two international conferences showed the independent R & D ability and mature application results of core technology of Labthink from deep and multiple angles, demonstrated its technical strength and industry influence towards the world, and realized the deep expansion and wide spread of Labthink brand! At the end of April 2019, Labthink joined the World Packaging Organization and became the first enterprise partner in the world in more than half a century since the establishment of the World Packaging Organization (WPO)!

The aluminum foil layer of the aluminum plastic composite packaging plays a great role in protecting the milk powder from oxidization owing to its high oxygen barrier property. However, the aluminum foil layer may be folded and broken during the transportation process, which may cause the reduction of its performance in oxygen barrier property. Therefore, it is necessary to test the flex durability of the aluminum plastic composite packaging to guarantee the oxygen barrier property thus ensure the quality of the milk powder products during shelf life.

This article provides a simplified test method of flex durability of aluminum plastic composite film for your reference.

Figure 1. Aluminum Plastic Composite Film Packaging for Milk Powder

We do the flex durability test with Labthink’s C681M Flex Durability Tester. The test standard is ASTM F392. The flexible specimens are flexed at standard atmospheric conditions (23℃ and 50% relative humidity) unless otherwise specified. Flexing conditions and number and severity of flexing strokes vary with the type of structure being tested. The flexing action consists of a twisting motion followed, in most cases, by horizontal motion, thus, repeatedly twisting and crushing the film. The frequency is at a rate of 45cpm.

Figure 2. C681M Flex Durability Tester

The tests shall be performed according to the following procedures.

Cut three pieces of specimens from the sample material after conditioning the sample material at 23±2℃ and 50±5%RH for at least 24 hours. The length and width of the specimen should be 280mm and 200mm, respectively.

Paste the specimens on the instrument with adhesive tape. The width of the adhesive tape should be 10 ~ 12mm.

Set test parameters and select flex mode.

Close the glass door of the instrument and press TEST to start the tests.

When the preset test cycles are reached, the tests will be finished automatically.

Flex failure is determined by measuring the pinholes formed in the structure. These pinholes are determined by using colored turpentine and allowing it to stain through the holes onto a white backing. As well the barrier property of the specimen can be tested after the flex durability tests to judge whether the specimen has sufficient flex durability that can ensure its barrier property.

For more details about C681M Flex Durability Tester, please visit www.labthink.com

About Labthink Instruments Co., Ltd:

Labthink Instruments Co., Ltd is one leading supplier of packaging testing instruments, which is headquartered in Jinan, China and operated in Boston, U.S.A.

In the process of medical devices circulation, kneading and extruding by external force is inevitable, so the packaging materials should have good flex durability, under the external force the packaging structure maintains intact and no leakage occurs, In this paper, the flex durability of aseptic medical devices packaging bags was tested.

Figure 1 Aseptic medical device Packaging bags examples

In this paper, a plastic composite film used for packaging aseptic medical devices was tested as a sample.

This experiment was conducted conforming to ASTM F392 “Standard practice for conditioning flexible barrier materials for flex durability”.

FDT-02 Flex Durability tester is used as test equipment, which is independently developed and manufactured by Labthink Instruments Co., Ltd.

图2  FDT-02揉搓试验仪

Figure 2 FDT-02 Flex Durability Tester

The testing instrument simulates the flexing effect that medical devices packaging materials may be subjected to in the actual circulation process, flexes the samples horizontally and vertically, and controlling the flex strength of the samples by choosing different flexing modes (different flexing times and different movement schedules). There are two main methods to evaluate the flex durability of samples. One is the method to compare the barrier properties of samples before and after flex, if there is no significant change of the barrier properties, the sample has good flex durability, otherwise the sample has poor flex durability is there is significantly difference in barrier properties before after flex; the other method is to use turpentine oil to analyze the flexed samples. If there are pinholes on the sample, turpentine will leave spots on the white paper. By comparing the number and size of the spots before and after flex, the flex durability of the samples can be obtained. In this paper, the flex durability of the samples was tested by turpentine method.

(1) Cut three 200 mm x 280 mm specimens from the sample material.

(2) Fix three pieces of specimens with pressure-sensitive tape on three workstations of the equipment and fix with clamps; closed the protective cover, selected the test mode and started the test; the equipment begins to flex, and stopped automatically after the set number of times of flex; open the protective cover, remove the clamp, and take off the specimens.

(3) Mark a test area of 150 mm x 200 mm in the middle of the each samples after flex.

(4) Take a piece of white paper and lay it on the test board. Place one specimen on the white paper. Apply the turpentine oil repeatedly on the test area of the specimen. Remove the specimen after 1 minute and observe the size and quantity of red spots on the white paper.

(5) Repeat (4) operation and test the remaining two samples.

In this experiment, C mode was used to knead the samples. One pinhole appeared in each of two specimens, three pinholes appeared in one specimen.

Good integrity and sealing properties of packaging bags is a guarantee to protect the aseptic medical devices from secondary contamination. The integrity of packaging is closely related to the flex durability of packaging materials. In this paper, the flex durability of plastic composite film for packaging aseptic medical devices was tested by measuring the number of pinholes on the surface of the sample after flex. The test process was simple, the equipment was easy to operate and the test results were accurate. Labthink Instruments Co., Ltd, is dedicated to providing customers with packaging testing solutions and helping the manufacturers to reach their goals of quality and safety assurance through improvement of packaging testing techniques and development of high-end packaging testing instruments. For more information please visit www.labthink.com

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l  Labthink at CHINAPLAS 2011: Booth S21, Hall 1.1

Labthink will participate Chinaplas 2011 at Booth S21 Hall 1.1 during 17~20, May in Guangzhou (China Import & Export Fair Pazhou Complex). We will bring new technology and products of Packaging Quality Control Testing Techniques to each visitor.

Labthink is willing to further strengthen exchanges with professionals of the plastic and rubber industry, and brings more professional information and services with her profound testing control techniques. Labthink(Booth S21, Hall 1.1), inviting and await for your presence respectfully.

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Labthink focusing on the laboratory testing instruments R&D and production and laboratory IT services, is dedicated to provide professional quality control solutions for customers in packaging, food, pharmaceutical, medical, daily chemistry, printing, adhesive, automotive, petrochemistry, bioscience, construction, new energy and other industries.

Labthink is an international enterprise headquartered in Jinan, China with administrative, sales and service branches in Shanghai, Guangzhou,Brussels and etc.,covering over 40 countries and regions.

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CHINAPLAS –Asia’s No.1 International Plastics and Rubber Trade Fair

Accompanying the growth of China’s plastics and rubber industries for nearly 30 years, CHINAPLAS has become a distinguished meeting and business platform for these industries and has also largely contributed to their prosperous development. At present, CHINAPLAS is not only the largest plastics and rubber trade fair in Asia, but also widely recognized by the industry as the 3rd most influential exhibition in the world. Its significance is surpassed only by K Fair in Germany, the world’s premier plastics and rubber trade fair, and NPE in USA, the second largest plastics fair in the world.