Test Equipment and Measurement Instrument Blog

Powder coating is quickly becoming one of the most popular finishing techniques available today. The powder coatings market is set to surpass 18 billion dollars by 2026. It’s cost-efficient, durable, and long-lasting, and the results can be quite stunning. And it’s highly versatile: Nowadays, you can find powder coating on so many different kinds of surfaces, in motor vehicles, construction, and everyday household objects.

The HI520-02 moisture meter has 6 calibrations that are preset and ready to go, but if this is not enough, fear not. You can add your own customized calibrations.  With many moisture meters, calibrating your instrument can be tricky. This is not the case with the HI520-02.

Nearly everything today is made with petroleum. From antifreeze, shampoo, and denture adhesive, to house paint, detergent, and contact lenses, petroleum exists in so many of our daily household products, including various forms of fuels and lubricants. It’s everywhere.

Approximately 40 million used cars are sold in the US each year, and consumers average about 6.75 years between each car purchase.The used car industry is an ever-expanding market, and with so much growth, it can be hard to know when you are finding a great deal on a like-new used car, and when you should walk away.

Using a coating thickness gauge can be a fairly simple, painless procedure, and it can make a big difference in the quality of your product....if it’s accurate, highly portable, very easy to use, and results are ready almost instantly. Choosing which coating thickness gauge is right for you can prove to be more complicated than actually using your gauge, once you have it.

Water damage can cause more than just major structural damage to your home. Beyond the rotting of woodwork and framing, issues with joints, swelling of door frames, and crumbling masonry, moisture can also open up your home to all sorts of unwanted pests.

Kett exhibited at the 2019 Pittcon last month.   We had such a great time and met so many existing and new contacts we didn’t have a chance to write about it until now.   The Pittsburgh Conference (Pittcon) is held annually and is one of the pre-eminent technical conferences in North America.   It’s a unique gathering where scientists, industrial users, developers and dreamers convene to see the latest in measurement technology and learn about unique and novel ways users have implemented the technology.  The net – lot’s of brain power.   2019 was Kett’s 26 ^th year as an exhibitor.

This year, the show was held in the Philadelphia Convention Center.  The weather was cool but the attendance was hot.   As you can see from the photo of our booth… the lights were bright on Kett and our visitors.  We had two highlighted products this year.  Our KB230 advanced desktop moisture analyzer and our BSR1700 online scanning spectrometer.  Both had great interest.

The food processing industry is an ever-changing market. As consumers’ views on food change, those who create that food must change along with them. In an increasingly nutritionally-minded world, the need for composition analyzers is growing as well, in order to provide exact, nutritional information about the food that is being produced.

Few industries require as much care for precision and security as the pharmaceutical industry. Every part of production, and each singular end result must be made with the utmost accuracy and attention to each minute detail. How can you trust that each product— every tablet or capsule— is safe to use and will work as intended? By using a composition analyzer.