At Struers, we're here to ensure certainty for you: certainty at every stage of your metallographic preparation process, certainty for your product innovations, and certainty for your material research endeavors. We deliver the solutions, knowledge, and support necessary to enhance your laboratory outcomes, transforming your ideas and ambitions into tangible successes.
Did you know that Struers provides you with a conformity document for your equipment? The conformity document ensures that your preparation equipment meets all necessary standards and regulations, certifying its compliance for safe and effective use. Have you misplaced your conformity document? No worries: just contact us, and we will send it to you.
Ensuring your safety and a safe working environment are our priorities in terms of consumables and equipment. For example, Labopol has six different splash rings to ensure fingers are protected no matter which disc set-up is used. Our consumables contain no hazardous materials, and with easy access to our safety data sheets (SDS) in local languages, you can easily find the protective measures and safety precautions.
Handheld mechanical preparation can strain the operator’s wrist, elbow, and shoulder. With the Flexible specimen holder, you can fixate a wide range of especially odd-shaped specimens without holding them by hand—a far more ergonomically correct solution that significantly reduces strain on your joints while improving safety.
Operators benefit from using the Struers Secotom – an accurate cutting machine – in several ways. Its cutting capabilities with tight tolerances ensure the operator accurate results, saving time and effort in sample preparation. The laser light is a great help when clamping, as it points out the position for your cut. This makes positioning easy and fast. Curious about what Secotom can do for you?
With microelectronics' miniature dimensions and complex material compositions, a controlled and accurate metallographic preparation is essential when small targets are to be examined. Accuracy is the keyword for this task. The requirements for accuracy in the materialographic processes, both in cutting and removal, are also more pronounced for samples defined by dimensions in the µm range.
Your hardness testing process must deliver reliable results to comply with ISO and ASTM standards. Any errors can have serious consequences, such as production stops and product recalls. This means you must ensure your process meets your specific needs with the correct testing method with accurate and precise measurements. In our broad range of hardness testing equipment, there is also a solution to you.
Mounting is more than just securing the handling of samples. It is crucial to securing a fast preparation process, lower consumable consumption, and less spend of operator time. Struers Citofast, an acrylic resin for hot mounting of softer materials, facilitates a very low mounting time and process time. Most importantly, Citofast improves edge retention, shortening your grinding and polishing process.
Less polishing time, less cleaning time, and fewer preparation steps will reduce your total process time. No wonder an increasing number of high-throughput labs are optimizing their sample process with Struers DiaPro diamond suspension. The shorter polishing time you will achieve with DiaPro will also lead to savings on consumables with slower cloth wear, resulting in longer usage and reduced replacement expenses.
Fast and controlled material removal is essential in labs where speed and short turnaround times are required. Struers AbraPlan is your best choice for plane grinding if you need high throughput and have limited time. When used with Struers’ grinding stones and diamond discs, AbraPlan can reduce your grinding times by up to 90%.
Participating in one of our popular training sessions can significantly improve your efficiency in your sample preparation. A combination of theoretical training, practical exercises, and hands-on training at one of Struers’ lab facilities. You will learn about the entire preparation process: Cutting, mounting, grinding, polishing, and etching with pre-prepared or your own samples.
Your preparation goal is to reveal the true structure of the material, and the most efficient way is with a systematic preparation method. Sample preparation follows certain rules where materials with corresponding properties (hardness and ductility) respond similarly and require the same method. Therefore, all the materials and their preparation methods can be displayed in the Metalogram.
Do you struggle with maximizing reproducibility, process standardizations, and achieving higher throughput in a constantly changing, fast environment while preparing multiple samples per week? Then perhaps an automated solution like Xmatic is the answer to increasing your preparation process's efficiency. It is the first fully automated, end-to-end grinding and polishing solution. Curious about more?
“The success of our customers is rooted in the enthusiasm and skills of our employees all over the world today. Involvement, knowledge sharing, mutual respect, and listening to our customers are the backbone of our drive for continuous improvement and innovation on their behalf. We are proud of the future we share with our customers. And we will continue to serve them by developing and delivering world-class technology and knowledge in a way that only a world leader can do.”
Steen Jensen
President at Struers
