With our versatile indentation testers, you can precisely determine the mechanical properties of thin films, coatings, or substrates such as hardness and elastic modulus. The instruments handle almost any type of material, whether hard, soft, ductile, or brittle. You can also conduct fatigue, creep and stress-strain studies on surfaces in the nanometer range.

Scratch testers are used to characterize film-substrate systems and to quantify parameters such as friction force and adhesive strength by using a variety of complementary methods. This makes scratch testers invaluable tools for the determination of scratch resistance, coating adhesion, and mar resistance in research and quality control.

With decades of experience in tribology, Anton Paar provides you with the widest range of tribometers on the market. Tribology is the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion, the practice of studying wear, friction and lubrication

The Calotest instruments provide quick and simple determination of coating thicknesses. Employing the simple ball-cratering method, the thickness of any kind of single or multi-layered coating stack is accurately checked in a short time, in full compliance with relevant international standards.