Buehler Inaugurates Materialography
Solutions Center
Buehler – ITW Test & Measurement GmbH
(www.buehler.com) recently opened its new
Solutions Center in the Düsseldorf Chamber of
Handicrafts building. This spacious laboratory
is equipped with cutting-edge technology for
preparing materialographic samples as well as
with Buehler’s latest hardness testers and the
specially adapted DiaMet™ testing software.
Experienced in-house metallographers
available throughout the day support
customers in finding solutions to their specific
problems and challenges. The spacious area
provides an outstanding forum for hosting
seminars,conferences and training events for
both German and international customers as
well as for offering continuing professional
development courses.
WN DECEMBER 2016
The new Buehler Solutions Center is equipped
with large to medium-sized abrasive cutters,
precision cutters, the latest generation of hot
mounting presses and manual and semi-automatic
grinders and polishers. The facility also has
Rockwell, Brinell, Vickers and Knoop hardness
testing machines that can be operated manually,
semi or full automatically. The laboratory is also
backed up by two image analysis workstations.
Further facilities include a thin-sectioning system
and a large laboratory fume hood for carrying out
a comprehensive range of contrast tests using a
very extensive variety of different etchants, and an
electropolishing cell.
As Matthias Pascher, manager of the new Buehler
Solutions Center explains, “The large attendance
to our grand opening signifies the tremendous
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