Force and torque contribute to packaging

Packaging engineers are well-aware of the vital contribution that that force and torque measurement systems can make to the early identification of design or production problems.

Mecmesin is pleased to announce that Vortex-i, the fully computer-controlled system which will set new standards for torque testing in quality control laboratories, will be on display at Interpack 2005.

In today's increasingly competitive plastics and packaging industries, minimising costs associated with product wastage or reworking has become absolutely critical.

Packaging engineers, designers and specifiers are well-aware of the vital contribution that that force and torque measurement systems can make to the early identification of potential design or production problems.

This year Interpack gives plastics and packaging technologists their first opportunity to see Vortex-i - the Mecmesin system with the potential to take torque testing in quality control laboratories to a new level.

Vortex-i, which is fully controlled by Mecmesin's flexible, powerful and user-friendly Emperor software enables quality engineers to develop sophisticated procedures and analyses to meet their particular product testing requirements.

One group of tests which are of great significance within the packaging industry involve measuring those torques which characterise the performance of screw closurers, caps and lids.

Vortex-i is the ideal instruments for: identifying slip torque and bridge torque of tamper-evident closures, determining the release torque of vacuum closures, measuring the peak torque to open a 'push and twist' or 'squeeze and twist' child-resistant caps, and indeed quantifying the openability of all types of screw closure.

The role of Mecmesin testing systems within manufacturing industry is not, of course, limited to evaluating the performance of packaging - applying tensile, compressive or torsional loads directly to products, materials and components can also generate a wealth of information about quality.

Mecmesin force and torque testing systems are distributed worldwide; throughout the USA and Canada availability is exclusively via Dillon-WeighTronix, of Fairmont, MN, under their Quantrol brandname.

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