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Versaperm Limited, a world leader in water vapour permeability measurement, has introduced a quick and simple way to test the all-important water vapour permeability and transmission rate of paper, packaging and coatings.

Water vapour is extraordinarily invasive and the problems it causes to pharmaceutical, food and perishable products such as have been estimated to cost hundreds of millions of pounds in the UK each year. A simple programme of testing at the design and packaging stage is often all that is needed to eliminate this wastage.

The Versaperm WVTR (Water Vapour Transmission) meter was designed to meet this need. It can cope with several samples at a time and can give a reading in as little as 30 minutes – whereas the conventional gravimetric measurement technique takes several days and is significantly less accurate

The WVTR meter is easy to use and gives a series of digital readouts that can be recorded or simply read off the LCD screen. It needs no re-calibration and requires, at most, minimal training to give results that are accurate to better than one part per million (with some samples a few parts per hundred million). Sensitivities are in the range 0.05 – 3200g/m2/day.

A wide range of variations is available, depending on the specific application, but both single and multi-sample systems and a variety of chambers are available for testing samples the size of a thimble up to a pallet load and beyond.

As well as manufacturing the instruments, Versaperm also offers a water vapour permeability laboratory service for companies that need to test samples on an irregular basis.

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Please send any sales enquiries to Christopher Roberts, Versaperm Limited ,
B940-H41 Popjak Road, Sittingbourne Research Centre, Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 8PS, tel: 01 1795 430 490, fax: +44 (0) 1795 438 274
e.mail info@versaperm.co.uk Web http://www.versaperm.co.uk

For further Press Information please contact Gerry Palmer @ the Palmer & Rose Partnership. Tel 01494 637499, fax 01494 452630, e.mail gerry@palmer-rose.co.uk.