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Color is an important performance characteristic for many plastic products exposed to outdoor environments. Sunlight, heat, and moisture can affect both the polymer and its pigments, resulting in fading, yellowing, darkening, and other changes in app...

Color is an important performance characteristic for textiles used in apparel, automotive interiors, furnishings, and outdoor applications. Over time, exposure to light can cause fading and other changes that affect a textile’s appearance and perform...

When testing materials for outdoor use, the climate where testing takes place is important. Materials can age differently in wet and dry climates, which means the location selected for outdoor exposure testing can affect the results.Florida is a prim...

Outdoor weathering provides the most realistic way to evaluate how your materials perform in real-world environments. Because exposure conditions vary dramatically across the globe, selecting the ideal test site is critical to building an effective, ...

For laboratories running accelerated weathering tests, managing purified water consumption is often a key concern. Xenon arc and UV fluorescent weathering testing - especially standards that require water spray - demand a steady supply of high-purity...

When it comes to weathering and lightfastness testing, our team is continuously engineering solutions to help our customers achieve reliable results from their testing program. Building upon our Q-SUN xenon arc tester “E” series, which introduced dua...

Automotive materials face constant exposure to sunlight, heat, and moisture. Interior trim components must resist fading and embrittlement behind glass, while exterior coatings and plastics endure UV radiation, water, and temperature cycling in harsh...

QUV testers are designed for simple, continuous operation for maximum efficiency in testing. To ensure that tests are proceeding as they should, the QUV main controller is continuously self-monitoring all key parameters to make sure the tester is ope...

In a recent Q-Lab webinar, Natural Outdoor Weathering Testing, our technical specialists explained why outdoor exposure testing remains a critical component of any comprehensive weathering program. When combined with accelerated testing, outdoor data...