How Rheology Helps Personal Care Products Meet Consumer Expectations

From smooth moisturizers to voluminous shampoo, the products that support everyday self-care routines are the result of the scientific interplay between deformation and flow. The personal care industry (and your morning routine) is only made possible because of rheology – the study of how a material moves (flow) or changes under varying degrees of stress (deformation).

ElectroForce Apex 1 Product Demo

Mechanical testing is a standard practice among top laboratories and manufacturers to support material selection, design decisions, component evaluation, and product performance validation. The TA ElectroForce Apex 1 Instrument seamlessly blends user-friendly design with enhanced motor technology, setting a new standard in advanced mechanical testing.

ElectroForce™ Apex 1 Instrument

How to Accelerate Product Development with Easy, Reliable Advanced Mechanical Testing

Mechanical testing supports material and product innovation across a variety of industries and applications, from testing the long-term durability of dental implants during chewing to predicting how a car part will bend during an accident. Learn how the latest technology advances mechanical testing to better support cutting-edge product development.

ElectroForce™ Apex 1 Instrument

Waters ElectroForce Apex 1 Instrument Offers Increased Versatility, Simplicity, and Speed to Mechanical Testing of Advanced Polymer Materials

ANAHEIM, Calif., and MILFORD, Mass., February 4, 2025 – MD&M West – Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today announced the launch of the TA Instruments™ ElectroForce™ Apex 1 Mechanical Testing Instrument, specially designed for increased versatility, speed, and ease of use to support precise tensile and fatigue testing of high performance and lightweight polymers and composites.

The Importance of Fatigue Testing: Prevent Product Failures Early

The Importance of Fatigue Testing: Prevent Product Failures Early

From faster prototyping to ensuring long-term performance, fatigue testing is a critical step in product development across a variety of industries that rely on high-performance materials, like polymers, rubber compounds, and composites. When done properly, fatigue testing accelerates development by helping engineers make informed decisions about prototypes and designs.

TA Instruments TGA Smart-Seal™ Pans sealed (bottom left), opened (bottom right), and in the sample holder (top) prior to entering the TGA.

Innovative Waters TGA Smart-Seal Pans Enable Lower Cost, More Efficient Benchtop Analysis of Atmosphere-Sensitive Materials

Milford, Massachusetts, January 22, 2025 – Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today announced the launch of TGA Smart-Seal™ Pans from its TA Instruments Division. The innovative, self-opening sample container is designed to enable analysis of atmosphere-sensitive samples in laboratory benchtop-installed Discovery™ Series Thermogravimetric Analyzers (TGA).