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8 Key Organizations for Weathering Standards You Need to Know

March 15, 2023 | Andreas Riedl

Standards

Reliable standards tailored to the application are essential for accurate, realistic and accelerated weathering testing. However, with hundreds of published standards and methods, it is interesting to know who is developing these important documents.
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Opening of AMETEK Customer Center of Excellence in Germany

February 28, 2023 | Dr. Oliver D Rahaeuser

Instruments

On January 15th, AMETEK Germany opened a state-of-the-art Customer Center of Excellence (COE) in Weiterstadt. In this brand-new facility, 16 technology leaders present their analytical and performance test equipment:
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Video Tutorials for Weathering Instruments

February 8, 2023 | Andreas Riedl

Education

We live in an animated world. Before we consult phone book-sized manuals, we search the internet for video clips that answer our questions. Atlas Video Tutorials address this need for laboratory weathering instruments.
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9 Important Weathering Conferences

January 26, 2023 | Andreas Riedl

Education

Weathering testing is a highly interdisciplinary niche topic. Therefore, platforms for the exchange of scientific knowledge, new technologies and advances in test methods are crucial for the weathering community.
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AMECARE for Laboratory Weathering at Peak Performance

January 10, 2023 | Andreas Riedl

Services

Laboratory weathering tests take a very long time, often weeks or months. Therefore, proper maintenance of accelerated weathering instruments is critical to operating at peak performance without unscheduled downtime.
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Behind the Window – Spectral Requirements for Xenon Instruments

December 14, 2022 | Dr. Florian Feil

Standards

Xenon arc weathering instruments require optical filter systems to adjust the radiation for either outdoor sunlight with daylight filters or indoor environments with window glass filters.
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Monitoring of Test Tolerances

November 30, 2022 | Dr. Oliver D Rahaeuser

Technology

Best practice for any weathering instrument is not only to record all relevant test parameters as time-dependent values. They also need to be monitored against their allowed min/max tolerances which are often specified in testing standards. These min/max tolerances are also called operational fluctuations.
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Atlas at K 2022

November 14, 2022 | Dr. Oliver D Rahaeuser

Products

From 19-26 October 2022, Atlas had a booth at K in Düsseldorf, Germany, the world’s no. 1 trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry.
Our team was excited to share our weathering solutions with visitors from all over the world to help them meet their durability testing needs.
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Unique Atlas StoreLight Filter

October 31, 2022 | Dr. Oliver D Rahaeuser

Technology

Today, I would like to share with you the story behind the StoreLight™ filter. This optical filter represents a unique feature in lightfastness testing, available exclusively from Atlas.
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Testing of Photodegradable Plastics

October 12, 2022 | Dr. Oliver D Rahaeuser

Applications

At the end of its life, plastic, and more specifically plastic packaging, ends up in the environment as waste.
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