What's New at IPS

Registration for IPS's weeklong Paper Fiber Course held April 19 - 25 at its Appleton-based testing laboratory is now available online. Click 'Read More' below or on the 'Fiber Course' tab at the top of the page for more information.

A new price list for 2010 has been made available and can be downloaded.

New pricing for Fiber Stains has been posted to our web site.  Click on the link to our Fiber Stains page on our site for more information.

IPS is pleased to announce it has added a wide range of pellet fuel testing capabilities.  Over the past several years there has been a tremendous growth in the use of wood pellets for home heating.  With IPS's wide range of testing capabilites and knowledge of fiber based products, developing this testing capability will be helpful both to manufacturers and to retailers interested in insuring the quality of the products they are selling to consumers.

The range of testing can be found on the IPS Test and Service Finder navigation box for "Industry" under the drop down menu item "Pellet Fuel."  IPS has develop the testing capability to determine the wood species of a given manufacturers pellets.  Knowing this information can help the manufacturer to optimize their wood sourcing strategy.  A sample report is also shown

We are pleased to recommend A.D. Jezzi & Associates, LLC as a consulting firm with expertise in the Nonwovens and Absorbent Product field.  The company is a management and technical consulting company in the area of New Product Development specializing in: Baby Diapers, Personal Care Absorbent Products such as Adult Incontinence, Feminine Hygiene, Baby Wipes; Non-Woven Technology and their End-Products; and Consumer Tissue and Towel.

For many years IPS has been providing Nonwoven materials testing for several clients.  We are now pleased to be able to offer a wide range of nonwovens testing to all of our clients.  We have experience in consumer products containing nonwoven materials such as diapers, training pants, surgical gowns and drapes, wiping products and filters.  Combining our knowledge of cellulose based fibers as well as polymer based fibers.  Additionally, IPS can help support patent claims with capabilities like Image Analysis.

IPS now has its 2009 Price List available.  You can easily get a copy by clicking on the Price List link on our site.  You just need to fill in the requested information and an electronic copy will be sent to you immediately.  If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at 920-749-3040.

IPS announces that it is partnering with Rouf Labs of Appleton, WI to provide microbiological testing services to its clients. 

ESPN the Magazine's Peter Keating reports on a controversial Honus Wagner card.  Work by IPS regarding the forensic paper testing done by IPS on this card are cited.  IPS had examined the card in 2003 to determine if the fibers and paper chemistry of the card was consistent with that of paper that would have been used at the time.  To view this report on Outside the Lines is entitled "Card Games."  Click here to see this interesting report.

In Dan Rather Reports episode "The Trouble with Touchscreens,"  work by Walter Rantanen of our Fiber Science team was presented.  This provocative, hard hitting program puts Sequoia Voting Systems smack in the middle of the infamous controversy around “hanging chads” that wreaked havoc with the 2000 Presidential election vote count.  View the episode or transcripts at Dan Rather Reports.

IPS moved to a new 17,000 sq. ft. stand alone facility in Appleton's Northeast Industrial Park.  We are now located at 3211. E. Capitol Drive, Appleton, WI  54911.