ACT Test Panels LLC
Hillsdale, MI USA
517-439-1485
Fax:  517-439-1652

AMETEK Brookfield
Middleboro, MA, USA
508-946-6200
Fax: 508-946-6262
www.brookfieldengineering.com
sales@ametek.com

KU-3 Viscometer
The KU-3 is widely used in the paints and coatings industry to measure viscosity in accordance with ASTM D562. New features include a magnetic spindle coupling for rapid attachment and quick release of Krebs and paste spindles. The user interface has been updated with touch pad control and bright LED display of viscosity in Krebs units, grams (weight) and centipoise.

Bernd Schwegmann GmbH & Co. KG
Grafschaft, Germany
49-2225-9226-28
Fax: 49-2225-9226-33
www.pruefkarten.de
Chart-Shop@Schwegmannnet.de

Schwego charts
Schwego charts are used for testing various coating properties like covering power and opacity.  Available forms: coated test charts (with polypropylene) uncoated test charts (for simulating unsealed surfaces).

Blasdel Enterprises, Inc.
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Greensburg, IN, USA
812-663-3213/800-661-3213
Fax: 812-663-4968
www.blasdel.net
info@blasdel.net

Industrial infrared lab ovens
Blasdel Enterprises designs and manufactures industrial infrared ovens for your lab. Ovens are specifically designed for any size to accommodate your substrate. Utilizing either electric and gas catalytic infrared emitters, we can design an industrial strength oven for flexible testing parameters.

Buhler, Inc.
Mahwah, NJ, USA
201-847-0600
Fax: 201-847-0606
www.buhlergroup.com
gdnorthamerica@buhlergroup.com

BYK-Gardner USA
Columbia, MD, USA
800-343-7721 or 301-483-6500
Fax: 800-394-8215
www.byk.com
marketing.byk.gardner.usa@altana.com

BYKO-Spectra Pro Light Booth
The BYKO-Spectra pro light booth supports you in your daily color communication and will be a key component in your approval process. Highlights: D65 and D75 light illumination with additional LED correction; enhanced long-term stability of daylight source; evaluation of color changes between daylight to incandescent to fluorescent light with 7 different illuminations (D65, D75, A, HZ, CFW, TL85, U30 and UV); adjustable light level for optimum viewing of any color from bright to dark; internal daylight color temperature recalibration; standardized and efficient color evaluation with automatic sequence mode; and traceable factory certificate guarantees precision and accuracy of all lamps.

Spectro2Guide Spectrophotometer
Touch the color with the new BYK-Gardner spectro2guide. The revolution in color management has arrived: Upfront design; color touchscreen; camera preview; auto-calibration; gloss and color in one; wireless data transfer; fluorescence; and digital standard.

Charles Ross & Son Company
Hauppauge, NY, USA
631-234-0500
Fax: 631-234-0691
www.mixers.com
mail@mixers.com

4-gallon Planetary Dual Disperser
The most well-equipped testing facility in the specialty mixing industry, the Ross Test & Development Center announces the addition of an advanced planetary mixer now available for no-charge demonstrations. The new 4-gallon Planetary Dual Disperser (Model PDDM-4) is equipped with two High Viscosity Blades and two High-Speed Dispersers; all four agitators rotate on their own axes while orbiting the vessel, ensuring rapid powder wet-out and deagglomeration. It is designed for vacuum operation and includes a jacketed mix vessel. Ideal for mixing thick slurries and highly-filled pastes, the PDDM delivers excellent dispersion and uniformity throughout a wide viscosity range up to around 2 million centipoises.

The PDDM-4 is one of over 40 mixers and blenders showcased at the Ross T&D Center. A typical mixing simulation test utilizes the end user’s actual raw materials and the mixer is operated at process conditions as close as possible to actual production. Proof-of-concept demonstrations such as high shear emulsification, particle size reduction, dry blending, vacuum drying, high viscosity mixing and three roll milling are performed routinely.

For over 50 years, the Ross Test & Development Center has played an important role in helping customers identify the best possible equipment for their particular application, generate data for scale-up, or solve a mixing problem. The center includes an analytical laboratory for quick evaluation of samples. Ross also offers trial/rental equipment for more in-depth testing at the customer’s facility.

EIT Instrjment Markets
Leesburg, VA, USA
703-478-0700
www.eit.com
uv@eit.com

PowerMap II/Powerview III Software
The PowerMap II is a new, smaller, profiling radiometer with a high user adjustable sample rate. It has a USB download to the new EIT Powerview III software platform.

LEDCURE/LEDCURE Profiler
The LEDCURE and LEDCURE Profilers are available in L395, L385, and L365 bands. Look for L405 soon. Each band features a patented optics solution for total measurement and accuracy.

Elcometer, Inc.
Rochester Hills, MI, USA
800-521-0635/248-650-0500
Fax: 248-650-0501
www.elcometer.com
info@elcometerusa.com

Elcometer 4340 Motorized Film Applicator
Elcometer 4340 Motorized Film Applicator, the essential machine for consistently preparing a wide variety of product samples including paint, varnish, cosmetics, and glue for further testing.

The standard film applicators include Spiral Bar Coaters, Baker Applicators, Single and Four-Sided Applicators. 

Elcometer 1720 Abrasion &  Washability Tester
Elcometer 1720 Washability & Abrasion Tester for many different materials including paint, lacquers, inks, metal coatings, leather, wood, plastic, printed materials, fabrics, etc.

Several tools are available for both flat and curved surfaces, under wet or dry conditions.

Elcometer, Ltd.
Manchester, UK
+44(0) 161 371 6000
Fax: +44(0) 161 371 6010
www.elcometer.com
sales@elcometer.com

Elcometer 130 Soluble Salt Profiler
Elcometer 130 Soluble Salt Profiler (SSP) uses the saturated filter paper extraction method to provide four Bresle equivalent soluble salt readings in about two minutes.

Elcometer 456 Coating Thickness Gauges
Elcometer 456 Coating Thickness Gauges with the Ultra/Scan probes allow rapid scans of large painted areas to speed up measurement by more than 40%.

Engineered Mills, Inc.
Grayslake, IL, USA
847-548-0044
Fax: 847-548-0099
E-mail: sales@EMImills.com
www.EMImills.com

Excelitas Technologies
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
905-821-2600
Fax: 905-821-2055
www.excelitas.com/omnicure
omnicure@excelitas.com

OmniCure AC8-HD Series
OmniCure AC8-HD Series of air-cooled, UV-LED curing systems offer outstandingly high optical power, delivering 50% more dose than its AC8 and AC9 predecessors. Excelitas’ patented control technology for addressing individual UV-LED modules enables unprecedented optical uniformity across the irradiation area. These systems are ideal for applications that demand high dosage.

EYE Applied Optix/Iwasaki
Mentor, OH, USA
440-358-4739
Fax: 440-350-7001
www.eyeappliedoptix.com
doug.vermillion@eyelighting.com

Super Xenon Weathering Chamber XER-W83
Designed for compliance testing of international test standards (ASTM, ISO, JASO, JIS, SAE, etc.). Xenon arc lamp produces full spectrum solar compliant light with optical filter combinations. Standard and high irradiance options. Irradiance, temperature, spray, dew/dark, and humidity control.

Super UV Weathering Chamber SUV-W161
5 years of exposure simulated in 10 days. Evolution of practices with the pending release of ASTM standard for metal halide weathering. High-intensity irradiation between 295-450 nm with limited heat transfer to the target. Results correlate to xenon and outdoor data.

FlackTek, Inc.
Landrum, SC, USA
864-895-7441
Fax: 864-895-7442
www.speedmixer.com
speedmixer@flacketek.net

GTI Graphic Technology Inc.
Newburgh, NY, USA
845-562-7066
Fax: 845-562-2543
www.gtilite.com
sales@gtilite.com

Simultaneous Color Viewer
The SCV helps to detect metamerism and test color harmony by allowing a visual comparison of colors under four different light sources - D65, LED, CWF, and incandescent. A separate UV light allows for the detection of optical brighteners.

Color Harmony Inspection System
The CHIS is for color and appearance audits of larger products. Features include three independently controlled luminaires with three light levels, multiple angles of illumination, wireless remote, lamp tracking, and casters to easily position the viewer. Three models are available.

Harper Corporation of America
Charlotte, NC, USA
704-588-3371
Fax: 704-588-3819
www.harperimage.com
customer@harperimage.com

QD Proofing System
The most well rounded functional full process testing proofer and flatbed printer offered to provide users at all levels of printing applications, a tool to decrease costs and increase overall profits. The QD proofer can be used by hand or with a QD flatbed table.

Konica Minolta Sensing
Ramsey, NJ, USA
888-473-2656
Fax: 201-785-2480
sensing.konicaminolta.us
marketing.sus@konicaminolta.com

Colibri Color Management Suite
Designed to work with a wide variety of Konica Minolta Sensing’s benchtop and handheld spectrophotometers Colibri is an efficient, powerful and easy to use modular software suite that can handle all your color formulation needs.

Benchtop Spectrophotometer CM-3700A
Built for performance and reliability, the Spectrophotometer CM-3700A is a top-of-the-line measurement instrument designed to precisely evaluate the color and appearance of opaque, transparent, translucent, and control the color and appearance of samples in an effective, streamlined process.

KRÜSS GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
+49 40 514401-0
Fax: +49 40 514401-98
www.kruss-scientifics.com
info@kruss.de

KRÜSS Force Tensiometer – K100 for analyzing surfactants and solid surfaces
The workflow-orientated software ADVANCE assists the Force Tensiometer – K100 in its furtherly developed version. Broad method diversity for surfactant and wetting analysis with powerful automation programs. Newly developed temperature control units for tensiometric analysis from -15 to 300° C.

NETZSCH Premier Technologies, LLC
Exton, PA, USA
800-676-6455
Fax: 610-280-1299
www.netzsch.com/gd
info.npt@netzsch.com

Norstone, Inc.
Bridgeport, PA, USA
484.684.6986
Fax: 610.275.2404
www.norstoneinc.com
sales@norstoneinc.com

Grinding Media
Norstone/Grinding Media Depot continually evaluates new grinding media in the marketplace. There are many new ones focussed on abrasion resistance, durability and value pricing. Contact us for more information or technical assistance for choosing the right grinding media.

Paul N. Gardner Company
Pompano Beach, FL, USA
800-762-2478
www.gardco.com
gardner@gardco.com

ATA Adhesion Test Analyzer
The ATA Adhesion Test Analyzer teaks all of the guess work and subjectivity out of rating the classification of your adhesion results as defined in AASTM D 5539 Standard and is accomplished with one simple instrument. Improves the repeatability of your testing program. Have confidence in the classification rating regardless of user. Easily share test results electronically.
 

RK Printcoat Instruments Ltd.
Royston, UK
+44 (0) 1763 852187
www.rkprint.com
sales@rkprint.com

LED UV
RK PrintCoat Instruments Ltd announce the latest developments for their FlexiProof 100/UV. This machine is now available with inline LED UV curing adopting the Phoseon Firejet FJ100 UV Lamp for proofing LED UV inks.

Radia/Red Devil Equipment
Plymouth, MN, USA
763-533-2969
www.radiaproducts.com

Mixers and shakers
Our shakers and mixers are workhorses in laboratories and product testing facilities.

1400 Classic Shaker Series
The 1400/1401 shakers are a great mixing solution capable of handling an extremely broad range of materials in a broad range of container sizes.


TQC Sheen
Capelle aan den Ijssel, The Netherlands
+31 (0) 107900100
Fax: +31 (0) 107900129
www.tqcsheen.com
info@tqcsheeon.com

Automatic Film Applicator Compact
The TQC Sheen Automatic Film Applicator Compact is an entry-level automatic film applicator that accepts charts up to A4 size. Application speed can be set from 1 to 150 mm/s. The Compact is suitable for both spiral- and block applicators.

Scrub Abrasion Washability Tester
The versatile new TQC Sheen Scrub/Abrasion/Washability Tester has a broad range of over 30 accessories that allows the user to set up the machine to meet a wide variety of Standards. Suitable for many ASTM, ISO and in-house test procedures.

UV III Systems, Inc.
Alburgh, VT, USA
508-883-4881
www.uv3.com/sales@uv3.com

Spot Cure
The SPOTCURE is a bench top defocussed UV curing system, air cooled, 110/120V. Inexpensive, needs gloves and safety glasses supplied with the unit, to operate at bench height. Used for UV
color matching, dental parts curing and coating cure lab tests. Works well on 3D parts. Five-year limited parts warranty.

Cure Buddy Pro
Light weight, handheld, great for scanning large or small items, 1,000-watt system, easily portable, used for autos, aircraft, cabinets, instruments, countertops. Comes in a kit with personal safety protection. Great, inexpensive starter unit, easy to use. Five-year limited parts warranty. Available in 120 V or 240 V CE models. 

X-Rite, Inc.
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
888-800-9580
www.xrite.com
meaganwilfong@xrite.com

MetaVue VS3200 
Measure liquid coatings and small or odd shaped samples with the new MetaVue VS3200 non-contact imaging spectrophotometer. 

MA-T Family
Measure effect finishes, like colored sparkle and coarseness, with the new MA-T family of multi-angle spectrophotometers.