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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Catching Up at the IADR Exhibition

After a few bumps in the road setting up the booth at IADR, traffic to the booth was non-stop for our Instron biomedical experts! During the 4-day event in San Diego, CA, Theresa Smith, Chuck Gleason, and Toby Kemp were busy meeting new attendees and catching up with many familiar faces.

"We were non-stop since the show opened. There were many people from Brazil, US, Japan, China, Germany, and Mexico that stopped by the booth. We've talked with people that know us and came over to say hello, and we met people that don't know us and are curious about biaxial fatigue testing, fatigue tests on the ElectroPuls™, and flexure and tensile tests on tiny specimens," said Toby Kemp, Manager, Instron Medical Devices and Biomaterials Markets. "It was a great experience!"

Did you stop by the booth and visit Theresa, Chuck, and Toby? If not and you have a question on biomedical testing, just ask us!

2 comments:

Jim Ritchey said...

What was the most popular application inquiry?

Toby K. said...

By far we saw a lot of interest in undertaking different types of fatigue tests, whether being uni-axial on materials or bi-axial fatigue/wear of ceramics and porcelains. This could have been triggered by the ElectroPuls E1000 instrument with an implant fixture that we were exhibiting on the booth.