How to expand the lifetime of your lab press

Are you driving your car for 10 years without changing the oil? In order to keep your vehicle in proper condition and to extend the engine life, good lubrication is needed regularly. 
So why do you never exchange the oil of your hydraulic lab press? We advise you to exchange the hydraulic oil every year. In this blog we explain how the lifetime of your lab press can easily be extended by changing its hydraulic oil.

Relax – we have the right lab press for every sample

As materials become more sophisticated, so should your laboratory press: – Are your sample plaques of uniform thickness across the plaque?– Do you know the effects of not having the same heating and cooling rates across your plaque?– Are your samples really ASTM D4703 compliant? If you even have the slightest doubt, it’s time for a new press! Fontijne Presses […]

How to select a laboratory platen press

The 5 most important factors to consider when buying a platen press In recent years, laboratory platen presses have found more and more applications. Each sample has a combination of best settings that need to be taken into consideration for sample preparation for the optimization of the results of the analysis. Once the decision has […]

Q&A Interview about LabManual 50

QA Interview: how to get the most value of LabManual 50 For this week’s blog, we have interviewed Luc Pattyn – Sales and Marketing Director at Fontijne Presses about the newly introduced LabManual 50. By answering a couple of questions,  Luc Pattyn (LP)  provides valuable insights about the technical characteristics and unique selling points of […]

Blog: An introduction to laboratory platen presses

In this blog, we explain for what purposes you need a laboratory platen press. We also point why a dedicated laboratory press is the best solution to prepare your samples, even if you have a production press or an injection moulding machine at your disposal.