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1. Bareiss was founded 1954 and has around 40 employees. They produce 95%(!) of all components of their devices by themselves.

2. Main difference to competitor’s hardness testers: Bareiss uses a ball guidance for the measuring indentor while competitors use a simple bronze bushing. Difference: the friction in a ball guidance is much smaller and has therefore much less influence on the test result.

3. For hardness tester calibration there is only one other German company besides Bareiss which has the right to do this kind of service, but only for manual devices like the HPE, not for devices like the digit test. For electronic hardness tester Bareiss is the only German company accredited to do this service.

4. Bareiss is the only supplier worldwide to offer a special measuring device for moulded parts.

5. Freudenberg uses one Bareiss hardness tester to do 2 Million tests in one year in an automatic testing line!

6. Also NOK uses Bareiss

7. Shore standard exists since 1940, IRHD since 1975

8. Hysteresis function in the Bareiss software: the graph shows the recovery ability of the rubber material, the closer to 100% the recovery is the better is the quality of the rubber material

9. Apart from rubber industry, there are the following application fields for Bareiss devices:

a) hardness tester for pharma industry: factories which produce gelatine capsules for medical drugs

b) hardness tester for fruit industry: fruit trading companies, fruit farms

c) abrasion tester for tire industry or for producers of break pads (for bicycles)

d) Special construction for the hardness testing of steering wheels (car industry!). This was developed together with Volkswagen

e) For steel hardness testing acc. To Vickers: light load hardness testing machine with CCD camera to measure the value perfectly. According to Bareiss there is no such device offered by any competitor so far. Other systems are not as precise as Bareiss.

f) Applications for tire industry