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NEW! PURCHASED NEW CLIMATIC CHAMBER CERTIFIED FOR THE USE OF FLAMMABLE SUBSTANCES The peculiarity of our climatic chamber The Plastlab laboratory is pleased to announce that it has equipped itself with a new climatic chamber certified for the use of...

TIRE RESISTANCE TO OZONE OZONE We may not know it but Ozone is present in our atmosphere in very small quantities. Even if the amount of ozone is contained, this gas can cause cracks in rubber articles that are subjected...

Pressure fatigue test on thermoplastic or elastomer pipes Fatigue Test : Pulsating Pressure The test that is typically used to test pipelines for pressure fatigue is pressure pulsation. The main parameters of the test are: Pressure level Pressure waveform and...

INJECTION PRESSES: HYDRAULIC OR ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY? A bit of history... It's been a long time since Gino Bramieri recited on the carousel "... look, it's made of Moplen". It was the end of the 60s, years of the development of...

PLASTLAB COURSES A PRACTICAL ANSWER TO COMPANIES' NEEDS A bit of history... These days marks the anniversary of Plastlab having been promoting training courses for 15 years; at the beginning the activity referred to the field of plastic materials, with...

RUBBER An extraordinary Material! Let's think about the life we lead every day, we may have never noticed it but if there weren't tires it wouldn't be the same: riding a bicycle, moving around by car, playing ball, watching television......

Random Vibration Tests What is Random Vibration The first specifications for Random type vibrations were introduced following the analyzes carried out after missile launches carried out in the 1950s. These analyzes revealed that the vibrations produced by the missiles being...

INNOVATION IN TESTING General Premise: Innovation is one of the most used terms for some time now, in any field and in any environment, when it comes to companies and their growth and sustainability. Innovation, be it incremental or radical,...

UN-ECE-R118 REGULATION UNIFORM TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO THE BURNING BEHAVIOR AND/OR THE CAPACITY TO REJECT FUEL OR LUBRICANTS OF MATERIALS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF MOTOR VEHICLES General Premise: The UN-ECE-R118 Regulation concerns the combustion behavior and/or...

VIBRATION FOR COMPONENTS  ON ENDOTHERMIC ENGINES When designing engine-mounted components or when vibration tests have to be performed, the fundamental focus is the study of the number of vibration orders. Typically the accelerometers will be mounted on the engine block...

THE PAINTS Introduction As part of the activities that are performed at PLASTLAB, the paint sector plays an extremely professional and strategic role as it does not exclusively deal with aspects mainly related to conventional certification/qualification tests of materials and/or...

APPLICATION OF THE PVD PROCESS PVD coatings (acronym for Physical Vapor Deposition) are very thin surface metal films of the order of a few microns (even nanometers), which are released with extremely innovative atomic deposition processes, in which the material...

RECYCLING is a MUST Welcome to another PlastLab "pill" which, in its first release, aroused good interest in the topic of recycling; I would therefore say to continue on this topic... which, to say that it is current events is...

THE SALT FOG CORROSION TEST WHY DO A SALT FOG CORROSION TEST? The Salt Fog is a standardized laboratory test aimed at verifying the corrosion protection of a metallic material, its organic / inorganic coating or surface treatment. It is...

The plastic "PROBLEM" Materials recycling, a theme that will be a kind of Leitmotif of Plastlab during this year and for years to come; the plastic "problem." Today we will delve into a small niche of materials recycling, namely that...

MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION TESTS: 3 KEY POINTS Materials characterization tests are many, and there are many laboratories that provide this type of service, for the research and development (R&D) area and in the quality control (QC) area. The focus of these...

Here is our story, of how the Plastlab Laboratory came into being. Plastlab Laboratory was founded in 2005, thanks to a grant from the Piedmont Region within the activities related to P.I.A. (Integrated Facilitation Package) projects. Its purpose was to...

Techniques able to evaluate the quantity of organic compounds emitted, generally required in the specifications of the automotive sector. Specifically, fogging uses a gravimetric or photometric method to identify the volatile substances emitted from leather, imitation leather, composite or flocked...

Evaluation of the thickness of metallic or galvanized components by destructive testing. The laboratory is also able to perform thickness measurements on galvanized coatings using the coulometric or anodic degalvanization technique. This technique is able to measure each layer, removing...

Evaluation of the thickness of the various layers of painted components. The laboratory is able to perform measurements of the paint layers of plastic or metal components using a metallographic microscope with magnification up to 1000X. To perform this measurement,...