(Struers Inc.: Westlake, OH) -- Struers Inc. introduces its new state-of-the-art micro/macro hardness testing product line, the DuraScan. With its extensive features and benefits, the DuraScan is a natural complement to Struers existing hardness testers.

The DuraScan, designed in five basic models, each with varying levels of automation, has a unique test load range of 10 gf to 10 kgf providing a level of versatility and flexibility with multiple test methods and application usage. Based on a patented combined load cell and dead weight system, the DuraScan takes advantage of both technologies giving users the most functionality and the highest degree of accuracy and reproducibility possible in a single machine.

The compact and revolutionary asymmetrical design coupled with the patented V-concept—a motorized test head and vertically fixed stage—allows for greater vertical testing capacity (260 mm or 10.2 in.) resulting in an increased testing height for large and taller samples. Additional advantages include faster testing on a large sample area, a constant working height that provides ergonomic working conditions, and a precise indent positioning that allows more accurate and reproducible testing results.

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