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Listen now to PlastChicks hosts Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri as they chat with Q-Lab's Dr. Andy Francis. They discuss the forces that weather plastics, lifespan prediction, and Q-Lab's new product offerings the Q-SUN Xe-8, and TUV-421 lamps fo...

Q-Lab's Senior Technical Marketing Specialist and Calibration Technical Manager Bill Tobin recently presented a webinar highlighting Relative Humidity and Wet/Dry Transitions in Salt Spray Corrosion Testing. Here are some of the key takeaways from th...

The Impact of Corrosion: Why Corrosion Testing MattersCorrosion poses a major challenge for industries that rely on metal surfaces. Businesses today commonly run tests for corrosion to evaluate how well protective strategies like coatings and passiva...

Reading technical standards can be a challenge, especially when trying to determine which parts are strict requirements and which are just recommendations. In this blog, we give some simple guidelines for understanding the sometimes-complicated langu...

Q-Lab is honored to have been recognized as a Top Weathering and Corrosion Lab Equipment Provider for 2024 by Manufacturing Outlook!Q-Lab was featured as the cover story in the most recent edition of Manufacturing Outlook, which features the latest t...

Cyclic corrosion testing provides the best possible laboratory simulation of natural atmospheric corrosion. Research indicates that test results are similar to outdoors in resulting structure, morphology, and relative corrosion rates. Q-FOG cyclic co...

Humidity is a general term that describes the amount of water vapor in the air. Humidity is a critical element of the outdoor environment and contributes to the material degradation in both weathering and corrosion.Humidity can be expressed as either...

Copper-accelerated Acetic-Acid Salt Spray (CASS) testing is a common quality control corrosion test. This test combines a highly-corrosive, acidic salt solution and a high-temperature fog to accelerate the effects on corrosion-resistant materials lik...

Q-Lab includes an air preconditioner as a standard accessory with every Q-FOG CRH tester. Not all manufacturers do this, so we often are asked why it is necessary. In short, the Q-FOG CRH air preconditioner ensures reliable, stable, repeatable chambe...

The short answer to this question is no, for two main reasons:There are no international corrosion standards that contain mandatory requirements for the bubble tower water temperature.Bubble tower temperature is not critical to testing, and as a resu...