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Top brand and manufacturer of handheld force gauges in Germany, with a comprehensive range of force and torque instrumentation.
The leading global brand for materials testing equipment in the textiles industry, renowned worldwide for delivering premium quality, and innovative textiles testing solutions.
The leading brand of test equipment for measuring and capturing real-world dynamics, as well as simulated dynamics in laboratory environments.
A global brand, specialising in versatile force, materials, and torque testing solutions for quality control in production line environments and QC/R&D laboratories.
Since 1872 James Heal have been on a mission to improve every aspect of materials testing, so their customers can achieve consistent and accurate results, every time.
As a part of the Physical Properties Testers (PPT) Group, a multi-national holding company, we are committed to innovation and the development of test instruments, which combine high quality and precision with innovation and industry-leading technical expertise. This ensures our customers achieve test results with the highest levels of accuracy, reliability and reproducibility. We have a high level of expertise and knowledge, from the people who design our instruments to our materials technologists who run our laboratories.
The finest textile testing instruments, designed specifically with product and materials testing professionals in mind. Combining engineering excellence with a culture of innovation, James Heal provides elegant product solutions for accurate and reliable materials testing.
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Our family of complementary brands, built through strategic acquisition continually invest in research and development. We actively listen to and answer customer needs.
We offer innovative, precise and reliable test solutions across a wide range of industries.
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A year of celebration continued at James Heal last week as a series of events were held to mark their 150th anniversary, with the attendance of sales partners from almost every continent making it a truly international occasion.
James Heal announced today the launch of its new HydroView hydrostatic head tester. Along with the recently released ‘AirPro’ air permeability tester, HydroView is the latest instrument added to the manufacturer’s performance testing line.
We are excited to announce the launch of AirPro, our new Air Permeability tester used to test the resistance of the flow of air through woven, knitted and non-woven textile materials.
At the popular ITM 2016 Exhibition in Istanbul, amongst 1200 exhibitors and 60,000 visitors from 72 countries, James Heal teamed up with their local agents Aygenteks for a successful ITM Exhibition.
We are excited to showcase for the first time our innovative new touchscreen-based user interface at the ITMA Asia Exhibition in Shanghai.
An investment of over £150,000 into a new CNC Machining Centre, in the James Heal Machine Shop, will improve quality, reduce production time and positively impact capacity in readiness for growth.
12 months on from our acquisition by US investment firm Battery Ventures, we were proud to showcase our position as the innovation leader in textile testing solutions at ITMA 2015.
ProMace our mace snag tester which we believe to be the safest, most efficient, accurate and repeatable instrument of its type available in the market.
We have today launched our latest model of our TruBurst instrument for testing bursting strength which has unprecedented functionality, enabling an extensive variety of tests to be performed on a wide range of materials.
The launch of Titan, the latest model of our popular Universal Strength Tester offers substantially increased tension and compression capacities, which now provides the capacity to accommodate tests up to 5000 Newtons (5kN).
