TA.HDPlus Texture Analyzer is our brand new next generation Texture Analyzer. SMS took all of the features of the TA.XTPlus and folded them into their heavy duty model. The TA.HDPlus can be fitted with 750g, 5 kg, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500 or 750 kilo load cells; and changing load cells takes only a few minutes.

TA.XTExpress Texture Analyzer is SMS' latest model Texture Analyzer. Available in either 750g or 5 kg load cells. Perfect for testing gels or on the QC line!

VolScan Profiler is SMS' latest product - a benchtop laser-based volume scanner that measures the volume of bread & bakery products that are up to 600mm long and 380 mm wide.

We announced the winners of our University Video Contest at the IFT Annual Meeting. Watch the videos and learn which team won!!

Pharmaceutical Testing Our instruments are extremely popular for testing pharmaceutical products. Follow the Pharmaceuticals tab above to learn how you can quantify virtually every physical property of  pharmaceutical products. We offer an Enhanced Security Module for compliance with the FDA's Chapter 21 part 11 standards for all tests with their TA.XTPlus & TA.HDPlus.

Adhesive Testing The TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzer quantifies adhesion, cohesion & tack of an incredible array of products.

Film Testing. Why do companies still test their films with existing Instron and Chatillon instruments? Because they didn't realize that they can use their TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzers to quantify just about every film charactieristic imaginable. Ask us for a copy of our Film Testing Brochure

Food Product Testing. Virtually the entire food industry use the TA.XT2i or TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzers to quantify textural parameters. Both Texture Technologies' and Stable Micro Systems' have extensive experience in helping food industry customers quantify their products in R&D, QA/QC or right on the production line.

Cosmetic & Personal Care Product Testing Test cosmetic products for firmness, cohesiveness, resilience, fracturability, etc. 

Powder Flowability Test powder flowability, cohesion, attrition, caking, and many other powder parameters with SMS' new Powder Flow Analyzer.

Electronic Industry Testing Test silicone gels, films & wafer dicing tapes, underfill epoxies & other products with the TA.XTPlus.  Quantify many more paramenters than possible with other instruments.

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Support Our support section now has links to a wide variety of information. Included are an online probe catalog, training opportunities, a discussion of Texture Profile Analysis (including bibliographies), the Texture Report, our Travel Grant Program, articles from Dr. Malcolm Bourne, and many other useful web pages.

Photos of Probes We have organized our web site by industry, and each industry's section includes a tab for pictures of the common probes typically used by those industries. Many custom probes and fixtures are available for a variety of applications.

American Institute for Baking's Textural Analysis Procedures for Baked Products Here are a wide variety of test methods in use at the AIB.

New Grain Hardness Method A very important series of articles were recently published in AACC International's Cereal Chemistry introducing a technique to standardize the measurement of the compressive strength of grain in a manner that allows direct cross comparisons among of many different types of grains and cereals. The papers by Drs. Morris, Pitts, Bettge, Pecka, King, and McCluskey are available via this link

Capillary Fixture Dr. Jae Park of Oregon State University's Seafood Lab in Astoria has helped us develop our TA-525 Capillary Fixture Kit for use with calculating the apparent viscosity of thick fluids and pastes. Read the abstract of his poster at last year's IFT Annual Meeting

Texture Analyzers Used in Patents How important is texture analysis to your business? Extremely. Check out this list of over 465 US Patents involving using our texture analyzers to validate their patent claims.