Check Quality of Adhesion Using Accurate and Precise Testing Instruments

Check Quality of Adhesion Using Accurate and Precise Testing Instruments

Adhesives are widely used in the packaging industry such as plastics or paperboard materials. These tapes are used to seal the opening of the packaging. Therefore, the strength of these tapes must be peel tested to overcome any challenges that can lead to failure of the packaging. The e-commerce industry uses packages for building their brand image, if bad seal tape is applied and the customers get sealed open packages, it will bring bad reputation to the industry. From distributor to customers, bad packaging plays a vital role in bringing down the reputation of the company.

Adhesive strength is a major trait for self-adhesive tapes and packaging materials used in industries. Peel adhesion test is measured by the force applied to peel-sensitive adhesive from testing plate. The Peel test is conducted to test the adhesive strength between two materials. The result is influenced by testing angle which is typically 90 or 180 degrees. Adhesives have many benefits to mechanical fasteners and need high-quality bond strength and have many factors to consider when choosing an adhesive for an application.

Peel Strength testing puts the average load per unit width of bond line needed to peel away bonded materials with angle separation of 180°. Used to evaluate the bonding strength of tape, adhesives and flexible substrates including rubber, medical packaging, consumables etc. Typical tests involve two bonded flexible adhered from a rigid substrate.

Customers demand to perform field testing of the wrapped pipe so that the tape system has been applied accurately or not. Peel test is used to see whether the tape has been applied correctly or not. The Peeling Strength is the force applied to separate two self-adhesives. The tape or adhesive material having lower peel strength is often discarded by the manufacturers. To package fragile products like glasses, ceramics electronics with low peeling strength tapes can lead to damages as the package might open during the transport. Heavy wooden products if sealed with poor tape adhesives can lead to damage to the inside contents of packaging. It is important to test the quality of tapes and adhesives used to seal various important packaging.

Peel/seal/Bond Adhesive Tester is the testing instrument used to measure the force put on sealing materials. The sample is placed on the plate under specific conditions. A force measuring instrument measures the force applied to separate the sample from the plate.