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Dia-Stron Limited
is a manufacturing Company based in the town of Andover, which is about 70
miles west of London, England. In addition, we also have offices in the United
States of America located just outside Philadelphia and distributors in many
other countries.
The Company was started in the 1980's, primarily to
serve the needs of skin research and dermatology. However there were several
milestones which served to refocus our product line towards fibre testing and
automation. |
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1989 |
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the
first small tensile tester incorporating PC based software, providing an easy
to use, compact solution to single fibre testing. |
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1992 |
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the
development of an automated cassette based system for testing up to 100 fibres,
a development rapidly taken up by most leading hair care companies to boost
productivity. |
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1995 |
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iintroduction of the fibre dimensional system (FDAS) to enable
integration of essential cross sectional area data with tensile
data. |
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2001 |
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modular system introduced using common PC software and control
unit. |
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2001 |
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fully automated system for carbon fibre, incorporating dimensional
and tensile measurements with sample transfer between measurement
stations. |
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2001 |
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Cyclic Tester for failure analysis introduced. |
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2003 |
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development of the automated Fibre Bending System. |
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2005 |
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automated contact angle measurement in collaboration with Krüss
of Germany. |
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| The last 16 years
has seen a transformation with fibre measurement and automation becoming the
central pillars of the Company's business. Applications cover a wide range of
fibres from hair to spider silk, cottons to other vegetable fibres, and a whole
selection of man made fibres including carbon fibre, polyesters, Kevlar and
many more. |
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