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Plastics are prone to heat and have a various bearing on the thermal environment for their performance. Due to the unpredictable behaviour of plastics, simple tests are conducted to analyse its behaviour and efficiency. The heat deflection test is conducted on a sample of plastic materials to check whether the sample deforms under a particular load.

Originally invented by Pasteur, hot air oven is an electrical instrument that uses dry heat to sterilize. The heat operation ranges from 50°C to 300°C. The need for Hot air oven in the present scenario is tremendous in manufacturing, rubber, pharmaceutical laboratories, and plastics.

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.

In our everyday life, we come across and deal with products which are created by either experiments or discovery. Due to our dependency on these products, a study on the chemical properties of matter emerges and various new and beneficial products are manufactured.

Quality of sealing plays an important role in packaging industry to ensure the safety of products. Low quality seals generate issues related to package integrity. Heat sealing process is widely used in packaging products. The process joins thermoplastic materials by applying pressure and heat.

Many types of tapes are used in packaging industries for sealing purpose such as printed fragile tape, PVC tape, Kraft paper tape etc. A peel test is conducted to check the adhesive strength between two flexible medias.

The salt spray (or salt fog) chamber is a standardized and popular equipment used to conduct corrosion testing i.e. check corrosion resistance of materials and surface coatings.

Polymeric Biomaterials have been rising in the market massively. They are generally used for treatment, therapeutic analysis, or as a piece of counterfeit organs. There are two sorts of the polymeric biomaterial; one which is made out of a characteristic polymer and the other which is comprised of manufactured polymers.