At the Água de Luso bottling plant in Luso, Portugal, bottles are routinely tested for correct closure torque. Capping machines must cap bottles at a torque that provides a quality-assured, leak-preventing seal but allows consumers easy access to the bottle’s contents.
No bottler wants leakage: production is affected, product is wasted, and retailers will complain. Worse still, a degraded product could become a health hazard to the consumer, with ramifications for company image and sales.
A quick, easily performable torque test provides an effective solution.
Mecmesin's 10N.m Tornado digital torque tester is a compact, portable, easy-to-use instrument that offers packaging manufacturers such as Água de Luso, line-side pass/fail and tamper-evident (slip and bridge torque) testing capability.
Before Água de Luso purchased the Tornados, torque testing of bottle caps was performed using a less accurate, analogue gauge-based manual testing device. The Tornado's digital torque capture technology combined with clear intuitive controls, easy-to-read pass/fail parameters and an on-board memory to keep statistical results offers far greater accuracy and ease-of-use.
