Zwick is concentrating its activities in the plastics field through its own competence centre. The “Plastics Testing Initiative” has been underway for two years, and the range of products for testing plastics is being systematically expanded within the framework of this initiative. As Zwick is already strongly established in the plastics industry with its static testing systems, the goal of the initiative is to further expand the product range. Zwick will now cover the measurement of mechanical characteristics as well as thermal and rheological characteristics in accordance with the basic values stored in CAMPUS. Testers will carry out static, creep, pendulum impact, drop impact, and high speed tests, as well as extrusion and hardness testers and HDT/Vicat machines.