Coating Testing

Varnishes, paints or coatings: we’ve got you covered

The outer coating of your products and packaging is more than just protection, it’s the first thing anyone sees. From tin plate coatings for food and beverages cans to epoxy coatings to keep steel protected from the elements or metal coil coatings to ensure the protection of appliance components, a coating can make or break a product – that’s why we’ve got testing solutions to suit them all. 

Varnishes, paints or coatings – we cover them all

We’ve got a wide range of products and services to check your coatings look their best and stand the test of time.

We have opacity reflectometers, mechanized scratch testers or salt spray and humidity environmental cabinets that will put your coatings through a thorough series of tests. We can also help you with your coefficient of friction (CoF) and peel testing needs, so you can make sure your coatings are sufficiently bonded to your substrates.

Check out our popular TQC Sheen Coatmaster Flex. It measures the coating thickness of wet and cured/dried powders and paints immediately after application, to ensure your processes are perfect and helping you save on coating material, improving coating quality, and reducing running-in time and scrap.

Our TQC Sheen PosiTest PC Powder Checker measures uncured powder coatings using non-contact ultrasonic technology to predict a cured thickness. Its speedy measurements are ideal for moving lines and swinging parts. While scan mode makes light work of analyzing large areas.
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Testing metal coil coatings

We also offer the next generation of coating thickness measurement capabilities for coated coils, with our SpecMetrix® Prime and EXR technologies. When you need non-destructive, real-time paint thickness and coat weight measurements for everything from primers to highly pigmented coil coatings, our breakthrough non-contact DFT SpecMetrix Metal Coils testing solutions are the perfect choice. Our SpecMetrix systems are also suitable for testing coating or film weight data on flat sheets, making them a flexible addition to your lab. Find out more about our highly accurate metal coil and flat sheet testing.

Non-nuclear coating thickness alternative

This technology also offers paper, film, and flexible packaging professionals as an alternative to the challenges that come with nuclear gauges. Our alternative offers a non-contact, non-destructive, and non-nuclear approach when dealing with coating thickness measurement. With SpecMetrix® solutions, you can avoid the regulatory burdens, procurement difficulty, disposal challenges, safety and environmental concerns, and technological limitations that come with a nuclear gauge – learn more about this game-changing innovation here.

Test your coatings to the required standards

From meeting the requisite food safety standards essential in the food and beverage industry to ensuring your coatings will meet regulations in construction, Industrial Physics can help.
We know exactly how important it is to be able to test and prove that your coatings are up to scratch. That’s why we design our testing machines and solutions with all of the most common current industry standards in mind – and keep an eye on the future too.

The future of paints, inks and coatings

Hoping to futureproof your inks and coatings testing process? Access our latest guidebook to find out more about our coating solutions, discover what are the biggest changes on the horizon for paint manufacturers, material manufacturers, and laboratories within the world of inks and coatings. 

We’ve got your coatings testing solutions wrapped up

With almost 50 years of experience and a team of knowledgeable engineers, specializing in a whole range of industries, we’re here to help. Whether you’re in construction or pharmaceuticals, we can work with you to determine exactly what you need to test and inspect to meet your goals.