Understanding how a Texture Analyser works – Adhesive testing

Adhesiveness (often referred to by consumers as ‘stickiness’ or ‘tackiness’) is key to perceived product quality, performance and effectiveness of such products as sealing tapes, curing glues, resins, waxes, adhesive plasters and labels used in the pharmaceutical, food, medical and packaging sectors. 

Testing adhesives is a very sophisticated process since it combines the Texture Analyser's ability to perform both compression and tension testing and measurement of force and distance. The sequence of events performed by the program are: