Materials testing is a critical issue for plastics compound and masterbatch producers who must fulfil customer requirements and demonstrate that their products satisfy prescriptive specifications. Laboratories continually strive for accuracy and reproducibility and new developments from Zwick Roell such as automated features and industry standard software can help meet these goals. Compounders’ laboratories are frequently called on to test a wide variety of materials and Zwick can assist in helping materials testing laboratories keep up with new materials and changing application requirements. The…