Testing For Paper Towel Strength
This article describes how to test for paper towel strength. The results can be used to compare the different brands of paper towels that are available in the market to find out the strongest. Some of these are Bounty, Brawny, Viva, Scott and Sparkle paper towels that usually claim to be the best in both strength and absorbency. What is interesting is that the companies producing the paper towels often compare their products with other brands and their products always end up being the best. How could the tests designed for comparing the products produce different results when evaluating paper towel strength?
This could be explained by the fact that certain characteristics, including paper towel strength, are interrelated with other factors. When comparing various products, you will need to ensure that a number of factors are held constant or else these will influence the results and cause bias. In other words, you have to ensure that you are comparing apples to apples and not oranges to apples. For example, if you wanted to know which brand paper towel absorbs the most water, you have to make sure that the sizes of the towels that you test for absorbency are exactly the same. Obviously, if they have different sizes, the paper towel with the biggest size would have an edge over the smaller ones. Such is also the case with regards to thickness because the thickest paper towel would definitely have a better chance of performing better than its peers when it comes to absorbency or even strength.
If you want to objectively compare the strength of paper towels, you have to objectively compare the size, thickness and cost. For size and thickness, you simply make sure that the samples that you will be testing are of the same size and thickness. This kind of comparison works well when you are trying to compare the products on absorbency and strength. You can also compare the paper towels based on cost to find out which offers the best value. You perform this for both absorbency and strength to discover which product offers the best value for absorbency and the best value for strength.
Let us now take a look at the steps to take for comparing paper towel strength. As mentioned above, you need to make sure that the samples are of the same size. One way to do this is to use an embroidery loop because the samples will surely have the same size because this will be based on the area of the circle formed by the embroidery loop. This will also make sure that the samples will have roughly the same tightness. The next step is to wet the center of the towel with a certain amount of water, such as one tablespoon. Then, you gradually place several coins or similar weights on the center of the towel until it breaks. The paper towel with the most number of coins or weights before it finally breaks is the strongest.
