Profile: Center for Tribology Inc. is a producer of mechanical and tribological test equipment. Our products perform almost all common mechanical and tribological tests for a variety of academic & industrial applications. The Apex is the next generation nano-mechanical test instrument providing industry-leading sensitivity, control and unmatched performance. Its multiple modules such as NH-3, MH-2, AFM, and 3D Profiler can be easily interchanged for nano & micro range mechanical tests. Our nano indenter provides precise surface mechanical characterization data by indenting at shallow depths. The nano head (NH-3) by default comes installed on a dedicated advanced nano and micro indenter & scratcher model Apex. But the nano head can also be attached to the universal mechanical and tribological property tester model UMT. Our scratch tester is widely applied in nano indentation, micro indentation, coating analysis for scratch, adhesion, hardness & wear, biomedical material testing, and semiconductor materials. We offer two tribometer models that are optimized for tribology, or friction and wear studies at different load ranges. Both models UMT-2 and UMT-3 use servo-controlled load & multi-sensing technology. The UMT-2 is the most versatile micro-tribometer. Its single-platform, multiple-configuration, fully-computerized unique acclaimed modular design can perform practically all common tribological tests on nano and micro scales. Pin on disk, disk on disk, ball on disk, plate on plate, reciprocating & fretting, uni-directional and multi-directional wear, are some of the typical test setups. The UMT-2 is used by a wide variety of industries such as biomedical, microelectronics, paper, and coatings. The single-platform, multiple-configuration fully-computerized high-load UMT-3 tribometer of the unique acclaimed modular design can perform practically all common tribological tests done by traditional industries such as petroleum, aerospace, automobile, engines, bearings & fasteners.