Checking the quality of plastic material with ESCR testers

 Plastics came into existence in the 1950s. Now, over 300 million tons of plastic are manufactured on an annual basis. The wide usage of plastics is due to low manufacturing costs, flexibility, low weight and acid resistance. Due to its flexible properties, innovative technology in the stream of automobile manufacturing, medicine, etc. leads to new proposals, enhancements and comfort. But, there are many problems related to the usage of plastics. The plastic containers contain many harmful chemicals. Cracks can develop in these containers leading to accidents. The most popular types of plastics are polypropylene, polyethylene, PVC, polyurethane, PET etc. Environmental stress resistance testers or ESCR are used to detect environmental stress on plastic materials.

Chemicals such as detergents, soaps and various wetting agents are hard which causes cracks on polyethylene with time. Due to operational stress on polyethylene tanks which contract and expand with the cycling of the tank, there is a need for testing strength of polyethylene and its cracking with time. Plastics are mostly damaged due to the impact of temperature, sunlight, rain, humidity or free fall. ESCR testers measure the quality of products.

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