Universal textile industries is one of the prominent company of universal group and is a well - known manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of high quality testing equipment for textiles, polymers, rubber and paper, leather, plastic etc. Universal textile industries offers tearing tester available with capacity: 1600g [can be increased to 3200g or 6400g by adding augmenting weights, clamping surfaces of each clamp: 36mm wide x 16mm high, distance between clamps: 2.8mm, tearing distance: 43m, scale reading : 0 to 100% or range. It is widely used to determine the tear strength of woven textile fabrics. It has been approved by some standards like;