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SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT
Specialized equipment

The MBTxt can be used for
routine bottle sidewall
thickness measurements as well
as difficult areas such as bot-
tle heel, base and finish regions
with ease and precision

The MBTxt is can be
used in the lab or easily
transported to other locations

Acquiring accurate thickness measurements, difficult areas a range of material thickness-
measurements in critical loca- such as bottle heel, base and es. The availability of two eas-
tions can therefore be quite chal- finish regions, as well as heavily ily interchangeable sensor probe
lenging. The conical shape of decorated areas, can be achieved options and the wide selection of
the MBT sensor probe facilitates with ease and precision. Even target balls provide the versatil-
measurement in very intricate extremely difficult-to-measure ity to measure very thin materi-
locations. This feature, along regions such as corner areas als such as those encountered in
with its high accuracy and wide on non-round containers can be tubing products and small vials
measurement range, create a measured with the same accu- with a low end range of 0-2 mil-
powerful measurement system racy as routine sidewall measure limetres (0.1 μm resolution) to
that is aptly suited for measuring ments. applications where the material
the diverse range of products in In addition to measuring criti- is very thick such as in cham-
many glass production facilities. cal areas and complex shapes, pagne bottle bases, candle ware
Routine bottle sidewall thickness the MBTxt can accommodate and similar products.

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