Introduction
Paper testing instruments are a group of specialized instruments used to measure the physical, mechanical, optical, and chemical properties of paper, board, and pulp, and they are used for quality control, product development, and research in the paper and packaging industries. The instruments measure a wide range of properties, including basis weight, thickness, and caliper; strength properties, such as tensile strength, burst strength, tear strength, and stiffness; surface properties, such as smoothness, roughness, and porosity; optical properties, such as brightness, opacity, whiteness, and gloss; moisture content; and chemical properties, such as pH and ash content, and each property is measured with a dedicated instrument according to standard test methods, such as those of TAPPI, ISO, and ASTM. Paper testing instruments include tensile testers, burst testers, tear testers, folding endurance testers, stiffness testers, smoothness testers, brightness and opacity meters, moisture meters, calipers, and many others, and they are used in paper mills for process control and quality assurance, in converting and packaging companies for verifying the quality of incoming materials, in testing laboratories for certification and compliance testing, in research institutions for developing new paper products, and in printing companies for evaluating printability. The selection of instruments depends on the paper grade and the required properties, and modern instruments offer automation, digital data acquisition, and compliance with international standards. With their comprehensive measurement capabilities, paper testing instruments are essential for ensuring the quality and performance of paper and paperboard products.
Vertical Tensile Tester LVTT-T2012
The Vertical Tensile Tester features a maximum capacity of 1KN, equipped with force sensors, to help measure the durability of the material being tested. It is basic and crucial testing ...
Vertical Tensile Tester LVTT-T2011
The Vertical Tensile Tester features a maximum capacity of 1KN, equipped with force sensors, to help measure the durability of the material being tested. It is designed to be stable once...
Vertical Tensile Tester LVTT-T2010
The Vertical Tensile Tester features a maximum capacity of 1KN, equipped with force sensors, to help measure the durability of the material being tested. It has a display screen for inst...
Vertical Tensile Tester LVTT-T2011
We provide Vertical Tensile Tester is built for the ability to test the tensile strength of various materials. Our tensile tester mainly measures the tensile, compression, adhesion, peel...
Vertical Tensile Tester LVTT-T2010
The Vertical Tensile Tester features a maximum capacity of 1KN, equipped with force sensors, to help measure the durability of the material being tested. It has a full touchscreen, makin...
Edge And Ring Crush Tester LERCT-T2010
Edge and Ring Crush Tester features a 7-inch touchscreen display for optimal performance. It uses a ball screw to move the press plate smoothly and evenly. The guide rail allows stable a...
Mullen Burst Tester LMBT-T2013
Mullen Burst Tester a capacity range of 0 to 100 kg/cm2 for optimal output. It performs burst strength testing on cartons, leather, textiles, and paper materials. Its quakeproof motor an...
Whiteness Meter LWM-T2011
Whiteness Meter offers an incidence angle of 45/0, capturing both color and surface appearance for visually accurate whiteness readings. It has a moisture-resistant design for reliable o...
Whiteness Meter LWM-T2010
Whiteness Meter features a measurement range of 0 to 120, allowing precise evaluation of whiteness levels across a wide variety of materials. The system has high repeatability, ensuring ...
Ring Type Adhesion Tester LRAT-T2010
Ring Type Adhesion Tester provides measurement accuracy ±1% makes it highly accurate device. It has a software system is most advance and complies with different test methods such as , ...
Vertical Tensile Tester LVTT-T2013
The Vertical Tensile Tester features a maximum capacity of 1KN, equipped with force sensors, to help measure the durability of the material being tested. It has various testing mode, whi...
Mullen Burst Tester LMBT-T2012
Mullen Burst Tester has a measurement range that varies from 50 to 1200 kPa for standard paper, with an optional range of 250 to 5600 kPa for paperboard. It features a 3.2-inch, 320 × 2...
Electronic Tear Tester LET-T2010
Electronic Tear Tester has a measuring range of 200 to 64000 mN, and a resolution of 0.1 mN. It utilizes the Elmendorf method to accurately determine the tearing strength by applying a c...
Ink Rub Tester LIRT-T2010
Ink Rub Tester features a sample area of 230x60mm and a friction stroke of 60mm, ensuring standardized testing conditions. It evaluates ink adhesion by simulating repeated rubbing or abr...
Coefficient Of Friction Tester LCOFT-T2011
Coefficient of Friction Tester offers a force measuring range of 0 to 2 N with a 0.5 level precision. It supports the storage of 20 sets of data, which can be printed together. The teste...
Coefficient Of Friction Tester LCOFT-T2010
Coefficient of Friction Tester supports a force measuring range of 0 to 2 N with a 0.5 level precision. It features a user-friendly design with a touchscreen display for precise data. Th...
Tensile Test Sample Cutter LTTSC-T2010
Tensile Test Sample Cutter is designed for precise cutting of plastic film and paper samples with a cutting size of 15 mm × 210 mm. It can cut up to 10 single-layer samples simultaneous...
Mullen Burst Tester LMBT-T2011
Mullen Burst Tester offers a measuring range of 250 to 5600 kPa with an indicating accuracy of ±0.5%. It is equipped with advanced a noiseless thermal printer that eliminates the need f...
Mullen Burst Tester LMBT-T2010
Mullen Burst Tester features a measuring range of 50 to 1600 kPa and an indicating accuracy of ±0.5%, ensuring reliable performance. It incorporates a 32-bit processor for faster data p...
Internal Ply Bond Tester TP-T711
Internal Ply Bond Tester assesses the internal bonding strength of diverse paperboards. With a sample clamping force of 0 to 400N it focuses on an impact angle of 90º. Each test can acc...
Digital Paper Thickness Tester TP-T2030
Digital Paper Thickness Tester is versatile instrument used for measuring the thickness of paper and paperboard. It has unique tightness calculation function. Integrated with advanced te...
Folding endurance tester TP-M10
Folding endurance tester is used to measure the folding endurance of paper, cardboard and other paper like sheet, material. The folding clamp can be positioned automatically. The micropr...
Bekk Smoothness Tester LBST-T2010
Bekk Smoothness tester delivers high precision with an accuracy of ±0.1 s for measurements up to 300 s, ensuring reliable testing results. The microprocessor-controlled system is used f...
Crush tester TP-L10
Crush tester is adopted with advanced parts, microprocessor controlled system and multifunctional design to test, translate, adjust, display, remember, and print the test data. User can ...
Mullen burst tester TP-T811
Mullen burst tester is used to measure the bursting strength of paper submitted to increasing hydraulic pressure. Used in testing bursting strength of all types of papers in the 0 to 160...
Mullen burst tester TP-T810
Mullen burst tester is used to measure the bursting strength of paper submitted to increasing hydraulic pressure. Used in testing bursting strength of all types of papers in the 0 to 560...
Electronic Tearing tester TP-T721
Electronic Tearing tester is adopted with advanced and supporting components, single-chip microcomputer and has reasonable structure and multi- function design. The variety of parameters...
Paper tearing tester TP-T720
Paper tearing tester is an advanced instrument used for testing tearing strength of the paper and paperboard. This tearing tester comes with 43 ± 0.5 mm tearing distance and 104 mm long...
Puncture strength tester TP-T712
Puncture strength tester has electrical mechanical integration design, with compact structure, easy maintenance. The puncture tester has an open design, simple operation, automatic measu...
Paper Air Permeability Tester TP-T710
Paper air permeability tester is designed to measure the air permeability under specified conditions with time & unit pressure difference. It measures the average air flow through the un...
Carton compression tester TP-T611
Carton compression tester with 100 mm/min return speed level measures the compressive strength of carton box. The compressor tester, adopted with chip, powerful data functioning system, ...
Carton compression tester TP-T610
Carton compression tester with 100 mm/min return speed level measures the compressive strength of carton box. The compressor tester, adopted with chip, powerful data functioning system, ...
Softness tester TP-T510
Softness Tester has a measurement range of 10 to 1000 mN, allowing it to assess a wide range of material softness. It has a 1 mN division value, allowing precise detection of small force...
Standard strip cutter TP-T410
Standard strip cutter with sleek and advanced design is used to cut the sheet of cardboard or paper into fine strips. It’s a common standard cutter which can cut the sample with 15 mm w...
Paper and cardboard thickness meter TP-T2020
Paper and cardboard thickness meter measures thickness of paper, corrugated papers using contact measurement method. The Analogue (pointer type) type gauge display is mounted at top with...
Paper and cardboard thickness meter TP-T2021
Paper and cardboard thickness meter measures thickness of paper, corrugated papers using contact measurement method. The Analogue (pointer type) type gauge display is mounted at top with...
Ink rubber tester TP-T310
Ink rubber tester with benchtop design is used to measure printing ink layers decolorization, rub resistance on low or high printable surface. This tester effectively analyzes the proble...
Electronic bending stiffness tester TP-T2010
Electronic bending stiffness tester comes with microprocessor controlled system, highly advanced motor, low noise operations determines the bending stiffness/ rigidity of paper, paperboa...
Coefficient of friction tester TP-T2010
Coefficient of friction tester has a measuring range of 0 to 5 N and uses a slider weighing 200 g ± 2 g. The tester features a real-time display that shows measurement results instantly...
COBB sample cutter TP-T2030
sample cutter with user friendly operations, benchtop design, is an important instrument for paper & cardboard cutting. It can cut the sample quickly & precisely. It is the ideal auxilia...
Water absorption tester- Cobb Tester TP-T2021
Water absorption tester- Cobb Tester is used for the determination of the water absorption of sized paper, paperboard, and corrugated paper under standard conditions within 200 to 250 g/...
Water absorption tester TP-T2020
Water absorption tester is used to measure the degree of water absorption of a paper & cloth. Designed using ‘Rise in capillary by millimeters’ principle, where a specimen is suspended...
Pulp beating (refining) freeness tester TP-T2010
Pulp beating (refining) freeness tester is used to measure the rate of dilution of pulp suspended water materials and to determine de-watering time. It is adopted with spring pre-tighten...
Tensile Stiffness Tester TP-T2010
Tensile Stiffness Tester is a used to measure the bending resistance (stiffness) of paper and paperboard. It is designed in accordance with working principle of international ‘Static be...
Whiteness Meter LWM-T2012
Whiteness meter features a low zero drift of ≤ 0.1 %, which ensures precise and reliable measurements even during extended operation and repeated testing. The compact, advanced circuit ...
Whiteness and chromaticity tester LWACT-T2010
Whiteness and chromaticity tester is based on a D/0 geometry with a 150 mm diffuser and a 30 mm test aperture, ensuring uniform illumination. It offers excellent stability of less than e...
Standards
ISO 2758-Paper-Determination of bursting strength
Complies with the above standards, but is not limited to them.
Features
1. Paper testing instruments for evaluating physical and mechanical properties of paper.
2. Comprehensive testing capabilities including tensile, burst, tear, thickness and smoothness.
3. Suitable for paper mills, packaging, printing, publishing and quality control laboratories.
4. Includes various test instruments for paper and board quality assessment.
5. Supports quality control, product development and regulatory compliance testing.
FAQ
Q1: What testing scenarios are these instruments mainly applied to?
A: Paper testing instruments are used in paper mills, packaging manufacturers, printing companies, publishing houses, paper converters, quality control departments and research institutions to evaluate the physical, mechanical, optical and surface properties of paper, paperboard and packaging materials. They support tensile strength and elongation testing, bursting strength measurement, tear resistance evaluation, thickness and basis weight determination, smoothness and roughness measurement, brightness and color assessment, Cobb water absorption testing, folding endurance measurement, and coating quality evaluation. These tests ensure paper products meet specifications for printing, packaging, writing, industrial and specialty applications. They are essential for paper mills, packaging manufacturers, printers, converters and quality control laboratories requiring comprehensive paper property testing for product quality control, specification compliance, process optimization, product development, customer acceptance and regulatory compliance, where paper properties such as strength, smoothness, brightness, thickness and printability directly affect product performance, printing quality, packaging integrity and customer satisfaction in paper manufacturing, converting, printing and packaging industries.
Q2: What standards do these instruments comply with?
A: Paper testing instruments follow ISO standards (ISO 1924 for tensile, ISO 2758 for burst, ISO 1974 for tear, ISO 534 for thickness), TAPPI methods, ASTM standards, and relevant GB/T standards for paper and board testing. The instruments comply with applicable safety standards. Calibration should use certified reference materials and weights traceable to international standards.
Q3: What is the warranty period for these instruments?
A: Warranty varies by instrument type, typically 12 months covering the main frame, sensors and control system. Consumables such as test blades, dies, anvils and calibration weights are excluded. Specific warranty terms should be confirmed for each instrument at the time of purchase. Extended service contracts are available for quality control equipment.
Q4: Are these instruments difficult to operate? Is professional training required?
A: Training requirements vary by instrument complexity. Simple instruments (thickness, basis weight) require minimal training, while mechanical testers (tensile, burst) require proper operation training. We provide operation manuals and guidance for each instrument. Proper specimen preparation, test conditions and result interpretation are important for accurate paper testing.
Q5: What is the typical lead-time for order delivery?
A: Standard models require 7-30 working days. In-stock units can ship within 3-7 working days. Custom configurations or large built-to-order systems may require additional time, and we confirm the exact schedule before order confirmation.
Q6: Is regular calibration required? What is the recommended calibration cycle?
A: Calibration requirements vary by instrument type. Mechanical testers require force calibration with certified weights every 6-12 months. Dimensional instruments require periodic verification. Conditioning (temperature and humidity) should be controlled per ISO 187 for paper testing. Full calibration and maintenance schedules should be established per instrument type and quality system requirements.
Q7: Are supporting consumables universal?
A: Consumables vary by instrument type including test blades, dies, anvils, calibration weights and specimen cutters. Many are available from multiple suppliers, though instrument-specific parts should be verified. Long-term consumable cost depends on testing volume and instrument type.
Q8: Can I customize instruments or supporting accessories?
A: Customization options vary by instrument type. Many instruments offer configurable ranges, capacities, automation and data output. Complete paper testing laboratories can be customized to specific production and quality requirements. Customization options and lead-times should be confirmed for each instrument.
Q9: Does the purchase include on-site installation and commissioning service?
A: Installation requirements vary by instrument. Simple instruments require no installation, while mechanical testing systems may include on-site installation, calibration and training. Standard delivery includes instruments with operation manuals. Installation services can be arranged for complete laboratory setup.
Q10: What types of paper are compatible with these instruments?
A: Paper testing instruments evaluate various paper grades including printing and writing paper, packaging paper and board, tissue, specialty paper, newsprint, kraft paper and corrugated board within the instrument range and specification. Different paper grades require specific test methods and specimen preparation per applicable standards. Users should condition specimens per ISO 187 (23 degrees C, 50% RH) before testing, use proper specimen preparation and cutting tools, follow the specific test method for each property, calibrate instruments regularly, report results with test conditions, and maintain proper environmental conditioning for reproducible paper testing. Complete paper testing should cover relevant properties for the intended application, and results should be compared with product specifications or industry standards for quality assessment.
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