CTX links physical measurements to real-world product behavior through application-specific test methods.

• Food & Beverage:
  Evaluate bread firmness, dough extensibility, bite force, shear strength, cheese stretch, yogurt consistency, firmness, stickiness, crispness, fracture, hardness, ripeness, and candy firmness. Example tests include Kramer Shear Cell, Ottawa Cell, Magness-Taylor probes, and dual/back extrusion.
  
  
• Cosmetics & Personal Care:
  Test spreadability, consistency, lipstick and pencil strength, break force, and hair combability using fixtures such as spread test fixtures, lipstick cantilever fixtures, and hair combability fixtures.
  
  
• Materials & Packaging:
  Evaluate tensile strength, puncture resistance, peel strength, tack, seal integrity, opening force, friction, and usability. Example tests include 90° and 180° peel, loop tack, sliding friction, and film puncture or tensile testing.
  
  
• Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices:
  Measure tablet compression strength, coating adhesion, capsule separation force, syringe force, blister push-through, actuation, and muco-adhesion.


• Materials, Mechanical & Devices:
  Evaluate springs, components, polymers, assemblies, deformation and recovery, force vs. displacement, flex and fracture behavior, and dual grip tensile performance.

CTX supports a broad accessory ecosystem, including rotary, fixture, and adjustable base tables, Texture Pro Software, bubble level, calibration weight set, gelatin bath system, Bloom jar, dual extrusion cell, back extrusion cell, 90° and 180° peel fixtures, loop tack test, sliding friction jig, three-point bend fixture, and a wide variety of probes and fixtures for food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, packaging, adhesive, rubber, and mechanical device testing.

• High-resolution measurement:
  500 Hz data output captures rapid transitions and subtle texture changes, including fracture, crispness, tack release, yield, and other fast events that can be missed at lower rates.


• Flexible method design:
  Create application-specific test methods for compression, tension, extrusion, peel, bend, tack, and other texture evaluations.


• Broad testing range:
  Interchangeable load cells from 100 g to 100 kg provide flexibility across sensitive, mid-range, and high-force applications.


• Stand-alone or software-driven workflows:
  Use graphical stand-alone operation for testing and integrated data review, or add optional Texture Pro Software for custom methods, advanced analysis, comparison, and reporting.


• Built for R&D and advanced QC:
  CTX supports method development, formulation comparison, material evaluation, advanced QC, and method transfer from development to production.

• Speed Range:
• 0.01 to 40 mm/s


• Speed Accuracy:
• ±0.1% of set speed


• Position Range:
• 0 to 280 mm


• Position Resolution:
• 0.1 mm


• Position Accuracy:
• 0.001 mm


• Data Output Rate:
• 500 Hz


• Load Cell Accuracy:
• ±0.2% Full Scale Range under most conditions

Interchangeable Load Cells :

Model	Range	Resolution
CTX001	0 to 100 g	0.01 g
CTX010	0 to 1,000 g	0.1 g
CTX015	0 to 1,500 g	0.1 g
CTX050	0 to 5,000 g	0.1 g
CTX100	1 to 10,000 g	0.1 g
CTX250	2 to 25,000 g	1.0 g
CTX500	5 to 50,000 g	1.0 g
CTX01K	10 to 100,000 g	1.0 g

What Do I Need to Get Started?

To begin testing with CTX, select a load cell, a base table if required, and at least one probe or test fixture matched to your sample.

• CTX Texture Analyzer Brochure
• Operations Manual
• CTX Accessories
• CT3 CTX Comparison Guide