METALLURGY PILL: STEEL What is steel? Steel is a material where iron is the predominant element, with a carbon content, as a rule, no greater than 2% (approximately) and may also contain other elements. Beyond 2% the material, however, is […]
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, […]
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 […]