Glass fibers - IST Newsletter October 2014

Glass fiber reinforced plastic is a big topic at the Fakuma 2014 - International trade fair for plastics. The IST AG will be presenting FibreShape FiVer and hand out the new brochure "Glass Fibers meet Scanner Technology". Companies interested in FibreShape FiVer have the possibility to bring samples and test their material on site (booth A1-1130).

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• The new brochure "Glass fibers meet Scanner Technology" gives you an insight into the capabilities to measure the length of crossing glass fibers. Get to know the advantages of measuring with FibreShape FiVer. Download it here.
• What are the advantages of FibreShape FiVer? Here some facts.
  
  • optical resolution up to 8 µm
  • representation of results conforms to ISO 9276
  • easy comparison of results --> good representation of trends
• FibreShape FiVer is available as version 6.o.1. The new features are:
  
  • measurement profiles and measurement masks can be managed easily
  • language selection English and German can be changed at any time
  • old measurements can be reloaded and evaluated with new parameters
    

• The ISO standard 13322-1 with the title "Particle size analysis — Image analysis methods - Part 1: Static image analysis methods" is now published. This document is important for us as our image analysis refers to the static image analysis. To get more information about this new standard see the ISO website.

New distributors:

• Tirit Ltd. is our new distributor of DiaShape, FibreShape and PowderShape in Russia.
• We also can rely on a new distributor for UK and Ireland. The company Interplant is distributing DiaShape, FibreShape and PowderShape for us.
  

• October 14 , 15 & 18, 2014, Friedrichshafen (Germany):  Fakuma - 23rd International trade fair for plastics processing. You find us at the booth of our distributor Maag Flock (booth number: A1-1130)