What Our Customers Say

“To accelerate our timeline, we have integrated a Plastometrex test machine into our workflow. This allows us to rapidly screen the mechanical and tensile properties of density cubes. By utilizing this high-throughput method, we have vastly reduced both the material volume required and the time costs traditionally tied to tensile optimization.”

“Thank you for putting together a great training session with Max and Marcus in Houston this week. Unsurprisingly, the session was tidier and more compact by comparison to your competition which aligns with the differentiation in the three technologies. Our team left with a good handle on the tech and excited to get going in the field. I particularly appreciated that it was light on slides and heavy on practical with every tech practicing every step multiple times.”

“It’s just a great, easy-to-use tool that’s given us lots of opportunities to capture data and look at augmenting research in a way that wasn’t previously possible.”

“The PLX-Portable tool enables us to provide fast and reliable material verification, which will result in safe, compliant pipelines and facilities over their lifetime.”

“PIP has proved to be a great tool for helping us understand our processes.”

"The PLX-Benchtop has been widely used at IMDEA Materials Institute. It is an indispensable tool for characterizing novel materials, which may only be manufactured in small volumes using innovative processing techniques such as additive manufacturing."

"The PLX-Benchtop enables us to generate critical material property data far more efficiently than conventional methods. I have been thoroughly impressed by the machine, it is both easy to use and reliable."

“Through our extensive technical due diligence process, it was clear that Plastometrex brings the best combination of accuracy, ease of use, and technical support in the market.”

"The PLX-Benchtop allows us to characterise the properties of finely structured parts in an entirely new way. The data allows us to build up a more comprehensive picture of the properties of parts made via additive manufacturing, deepening our understanding of the process."

"Materials testing and qualification is the bedrock of any robust manufacturing process and new testing tools are needed to support the adoption of AM in industry. We are delighted to be working with Plastometrex, a technology-forward company whose unique technology platform will enable us to assess, improve, and deploy additive parts far more efficiently than previously possible."

“The PLX-Benchtop allows us to provide entirely new data to our customers across multiple industries, acting as the perfect complement to our existing test capability”

"PIP delivers very quick and reliable testing, with a highly accurate correspondence with tensile."

"PIP technology is a fantastic complement to our existing mechanical testing regime. It gives us even greater insight into the quality of parts produced on our RenAM 500 series of metal additive manufacturing systems."

"We intend to employ PIP on a build-by-build basis to verify that what we are doing is sound, straight off the machine, every time."

"One of the best things about working with Plastometrex is how their team listens to and implements user feedback. We had a specific challenge, and instead of offering a generic fix, they helped us develop a dwell test method that made a real difference to our testing process.”

“Ordinarily, there are lots of material coupons being manufactured and post-processed, and then we’d typically be sending things out for sub-contract work. PIP has given us the opportunity to get quick and interesting work done more efficiently than the existing supply chain has previously permitted.”

"It serves as a perfect tool for the characterization of welds, enabling the understanding of the link between welding parameters and the mechanical performance of joints. It greatly enhances our research projects."

"We can now use cubes built for product development for additional testing, saving us time and money. Additionally, the PLX-Benchtop can generate mechanical data for a wider range of parameters."

"I’ve been very impressed with the operation of the machine and the ease by which it can be used."

“I really, really like the speed at which we acquire the data and how easy it is to train operators to use the equipment. Right through to the extraction of the, everything is fast and streamlined and easy to take on board.”

"Through the use of PIP, students are now getting a very real experience of testing the plasticity of metals. Being able to take the theory and academic concepts that they are seeing in lectures and then applying them to a real-world sample has been a real advantage."

"PIP is definitely able to shape the future of materials research. It’s an innovative approach to testing with a very good scientific basis which has already changed the field.”

"Plastometrex’s novel testing technology enables us to optimise our AM materials with much less material and in a fraction of the time required by traditional methods. This transformative testing technology will play an important role in supporting the continued adoption of AM."

"Because it’s so much quicker, I now go to PIP as a first stop for high-temperature testing rather than tensile."

"It is a wonderful and unique tool that allows for the rapid mechanical characterization of metallic materials without the need to machine tensile samples. User-friendly software is another favourite aspect of mine.”

“PIP gives us the opportunity to test small regions of material with varied microstructure, giving us the ability to quantify some of the development work we’ve done on process control. It gives us substantial data to see whether that’s been successful and how it might be wielded in a real-world application.”

"Having the Indentation Plastometer allows us to significantly reduce the sample size required, not only saving time and material resources, but allowing us to generate mechanical data which we have yet to see on our materials."

"We found PIP to be incredibly useful to assess the mechanical properties of weld fusion zones made using custom, limited supply, filler wires in our recent work."

"Since I started using the HotStage I’ve seen a lot of benefits. It’s compact, it’s portable, it works on very tiny samples, I don’t need to machine anything, and it’s very quick and easy to use."

“All the way from casting through to atomisation and processing of powders, we need to understand how performance is impacted. PIP has offered us a way to capture that information really quickly and easily, and it augments a lot of the other data that we capture in our team.”

"The PLX-HotStage is definitely able to shape the future of materials research. It’s an innovative approach to testing with a very good scientific basis which has already changed the field.”

"The Plastometrex device is a key enabler for new materials discovery and screening particularly in AM."

“PIP has made us think differently about how we work because it gives the opportunity to capture information really quickly.”

"The software is very user friendly, giving proper advice on how to prepare your sample and how to use the equipment. You don’t really need to understand the science behind it, but the software also provides a lot of scientific background to the tests."

"PIP allows us to test the properties of aluminium alloys at high temperatures much quicker than a tensile test."

"The technology allows our customers to measure critical mechanical property data from small and challenging-to-test samples for the first time. This enables them to design, manufacture, and repair their products with greater efficiency and confidence."

"PIP provides an opportunity to really get students thinking deeply about plasticity by drawing out different aspects of plasticity and allowing them to apply their knowledge to real materials."

"It’s just so incredibly quick and easy to use – astonishingly simple."

"Since adopting PIP testing, we’ve changed our teaching of mechanical deformation quite considerably. PIP provides an opportunity to really get students thinking deeply by drawing out different aspects of plasticity and allowing them to apply their knowledge to real materials. The addition of the PLX-Benchtop has therefore been a real advantage."

"I’ve found that PIP testing has really helped me to understand the fundamentals of mechanical deformation. It’s been especially helpful for helping me to identify the nature of materials in some of our more advanced projects."

"There are several advantages to the PLX-Benchtop machine in an educational environment, one being that you can very quickly get students up and running, conducting their own tests on real materials, with very little intervention. It’s incredibly simple to use, the training required is minimal, as is the sample preparation."