The motorized IKA HELISTAND allows you to measure the viscosity of highly viscous samples with a high level of reliability. It moves the mounted viscometer and its rotating body slowly and uniformly up and down in the sample.
Highly viscous samples such as creams, pastes, paints and gelatin cause a static viscometer to run empty. These substances are so viscous that they are forced to the edge by the rotational movements. An air channel is created around the rotating body, which is why the acting torque is then no longer meaningful. The IKA HELISTAND can prevent this by means of slow movements, up and down.
Combined with the included T-spindles for non-flowing samples, you can thus acquire meaningful viscosity measurements.
Today's IKA factories were founded 1910 in Cologne as a trading company for pharmaceutical commodities Janke & Kunkel OHG. Starting in 1920, the company began to develop and manufacture laboratory and measuring instruments, electrolysis devices and other equipment for university and industrial laboratories. Today, the IKA Group has more than 900 employees at eight locations on four continents and is pleased about customers such as BASF, Bayer or Procter&Gamble. In most product groups, the IKA factories are the sovereign world market leader and a symbol of development and growth. Or as our new slogan puts it: "IKA - Designed to work perfectly.