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| Film Support Rig |
The Film Support Rig is used in conjunction with the TA.XTplus texture analyser to measure the burst strength and resilience of a variety of personal care and pharmaceutical products.
These include oral hygiene strips, plasters, bandages, polymer film, micropore tape, synthetic skin and latex, amongst other ‘Edible Film’ applications finding their way into the food industry.
Many pharmaceutical products, particularly plasters and bandages, are designed to be extremely thin, increasing comfort and ease of storage or use. Other films are designed to dissolve on the tongue.
Stable Micro Systems have launched the Unconfined Yield Stress Rig for the measurement of powder flowability.
In
industries that handle powders on a regular basis it is very important
to understand how a powder or granular material responds to pressure. In
storage, the weight of powder in a container exerts pressure on the
particles at the bottom.
If the powder has good flow behaviour it will
not consolidate and will flow out of the silo or hopper without sticking
– this is very desirable. The longer a powder is stored for, the more
likely it is to form a cake in its hopper and refuse to flow without
further assistance.
