The Revetest® scratch tester is the industrial standard widely used for characterizing hard-coated materials with a typical coating thickness exceeding 1 μm. RST³ is a reliable instrument for the characterization of both coating/substrate adhesion and surface anti-scratch resistance. Equipped with an easy-to-use software package, it is possible to perform scratch tests in a wide variety of testing modes, including simple scratch testing, advanced scratch testing (with pre-scan and post-scan), scratch map, scratch map by stage, user-defined scratch, etc. Anton Paar is the world leader in scratch testing with more than 1,500 Revetest® instruments sold.