ERNST is a company with over 50 years’ experience in the research, design and production of high quality hardness testers.
Active in the international market with an extensive range of hardness testers, it gathers information and requests from a demanding and diversified market, in order to continue to be at the forefront of the production of machines for controlling, measuring and testing materials.
ERNST patents are the story and the future of the company, a company that is constantly researching new technological solutions to the still unsolved problems in metal hardness testing.
The range of ERNST hardness testers includes:
- light and heavy load portable hardness testers, suitable for testing large specimens, irregular shapes, and awkward test points that bench testers cannot reach
- bench hardness testers for Rockwell and Brinell testing with direct reading in many other hardness scales
- automatic hardness testers for high volume testing and completely in-line testing operations.
All ERNST hardness testers operate according to a variant of the Rockwell method that permits accurate and reliable results also in the presence of deflection of the test part.
The series ESATEST hardness testers is based on a new testing method based on the measurement of the electrical resistivity and patented by ERNST. This method allows determining in a rapid way the material hardness in awkward test points, such as interiors, irregular shapes, gear evolvents.
The experience and the specialisation, the possibility to offer customized solutions, the extensive range of hardness testers make ERNST a worldwide leader in the production of testing instruments.