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material tests. The capacities of their machines range from 5 kN up to 2,000 kN for tensile tests and even more for compression testing. The Hoytom laboratory has been certified by the ENAC [Spanish National Accreditation Body] since 1996 and provides calibration services on the customer’s premises, issuing the relevant certificates on the condition of their machines, including all areas of force, stress, strain, and hardness. Hoytom’s test machines are the hidden guarantee that ensures that many products on the market meet the function for which they were designed. Test machines are used throughout the manufacturing process of a product − from raw materials to the many intermediate parts that go to make up an assembly. Founded in 1961, Hoytom is a Spanish company located in the Basque town of Leioa, near Bilbao, with a staff consisting of experts in the field of static destructive testing, where they stretch or compress devices under test until breakage. Hoytom is a family company going back three generations. Ever since the early days back in the 60s, Hoytom has acknowledged and understood that quality, drive, and the best equipment are key factors to being competitive in the complex world of testing at national and international levels. Testing is as complex as it is surprising. Anyone who enters this little-known sector
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soon finds out that testing is a pervasive activity that guarantees the quality of virtually any item in any sector with an incredibly wide range of testing procedures. Hoytom equipment has always been involved
in this field and continues to do so. Hoytom machines have tested many different items – from nuts, bolts and different types of steel, to composites, automotive structures, aircraft parts, cables and concrete. At Hoytom, the managers say they feel most comfortable when dealing with large machines and tests with a certain degree of complexity. Of course, the functionality of the machines is the most important requirement, but for several years now, the company has also offered attractive designs to equip their customers’ facilities. All this work has come with its own reward: the company now exports 50 per cent of its machines. Hoytom’s testing machines also include hardness
testers and pendulums used to determine the hardness and toughness of materials. For their universal and hardness testing machines, which carry out Rockwell and Brinell hardness tests, Hoytom has always relied on HBK’s HBM brand products, namely load cells, and integrates them in all their machines, to the point where they have become one of HBK’s main customers in Spain. This is mainly due to the confidence they have in the accuracy and reliability of HBM U10M force transducer, ensuring the minimum values of linearity deviation, hysteresis and reversibility error,
24 November 2022 Instrumentation Monthly
Hoytom takes testing to its highest limits
Quality control equipment specialist, Hoytom has boosted its capabilities by integrating a range of Hottinger Brüel & Kjær (HBK) load cells into its machines, which ensure maximum accuracy throughout its measurement process.
oytom is a company that specialises in making quality control equipment and electromechanical and electrohydraulic machines for
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