w+b builds the testing systems that produce it. From a dental implant at 0.7 kN to a bridge bearing at 5 000 kN, designed, machined and accepted in one place in Schaffhausen.
The catalogue covers material testing, structural and component testing, building materials and a long list of accessories. A laboratory does not choose between three hundred references. It chooses between three kinds of question.
Electromechanical and servohydraulic frames for tensile, compression, fatigue, torsion and impact work, with the grips, extensometers and furnaces that go with them.
Actuators, hydraulic power units and multi-test-area machines for components that are too large, too heavy or too expensive to test as a specimen.
Compression, flexural, creep and temperature-stress machines for the materials a building is made of, with the controller and software that record the result.
A testing machine is only worth the certificate behind it. Everything that produces that certificate happens in Löhningen.
The ranges overlap, and the right frame depends on what the test has to prove, not only on the load. Move the slider to the force you work with.
Logarithmic scale, 0.5 kN to 5 000 kN.
A rigid four-column floor-standing frame for metals, fasteners, composites, forgings and geotextiles.
The series at w+b →Design, machining, assembly and acceptance under one roof. The calibration laboratory works from the same address, which is why the number survives the journey to the customer's report.
A standard frame is modified for the specimen, the standard and the grips. Where no standard frame fits, w+b builds the machine the test requires: high temperature, vacuum, corrosion, biaxial, full-scale component.
Frames, ball screws, seals and guarding are produced and assembled in-house. The frame stands free on shock absorbers: no special foundation, no civil works on the customer's floor.
The machine is verified before it leaves, then calibrated by the accredited laboratory. Commissioning, instruction and telephone support follow, and the software continues to be updated.
Existing machines are modernised in a modular way: a new controller, a new drive, a second test area. A frame bought in 1990 can still produce a number accepted in 2026.
A laboratory used to buy one machine. It now buys a line: the specimen, the frame, the robot, the controller, the report. w+b already builds every part of that line, and still sells them mostly one at a time.
The next ten years will not be decided by the highest force. They will be decided by the laboratory that can prove a result without touching it: automated, calibrated, traceable, and accepted by the customer who reads the report.
That is a different company from the one that ships a frame. It is also the one whose name is already on the certificate.
This page is a proposal made to w+b from its own public content: the site, the product sheets, the certificates and the commercial register. The three packages, from the fixed price of CHF 1 200.– to the supporting materials, are set out on a dedicated page.