Products often fail because climbing the testing and compliance mountain is difficult and ill management can start to detriment the principle core of your business.

A lack of testing and evaluation can cause problems for a new product or technology and one horror story can spread to deem your new product unmarketable. Our specialty is working with experts and consultants where we can analyse our new designs and products within testing regimes, even where no standards yet apply.

We help design the rigs, jigs and fittings to specification needs and we develop new testing methods most appropriate for your product.

Testing can be a multi-stop package. We help in managing and developing the whole job using the people who can provide the correct certification for your product and to achieve the standards you want. Testing helps businesses to meet market requirements and current and future laws, regulations, and specific product safety and development requirements.

It is close contact with bodies that help. Whatever your industry, EN, BS, EMC, FDA, TUV, UL and many other types of Compliance, Standard and Directives bodies hold the key to recognition for safe production and quality assurance. Once met, the generation of confidence is gained, this can also be utilised in target market profitability. The knowledge of quality and safety acquisition is fundamental in many customers’ values and becomes paramount in the success of future ventures.

We can help advise and achieve:

Kitemark The UK’s most widely recognised product mark
CE marking Mandatory CE marking for trading with the EU
Testing & certification Information on testing your products
Help and advice on EU directives

To achieve these directives, first you need to consider if and what you need to identify appropriate tests for your application and if you know who:
Has right equipment for the test
Are testing under controlled and monitored conditions

Examples of tests that need to be considered:

Abrasion
Adhesion.
Ageing
Creep
Compression
Chemical Resistance
Cure
Density
Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Differential Mechanical Thermal Analysis
Dimensional
Dynamic
Environmental
Electrical Resistance & Resistivity
Electrical Strength
Fatigue
Flexural
Friction
Hardness
Impact
Temperature
Abrasion
Adhesion
Ageing
Creep
Compression
Chemical Resistance
Cure
Density
Temperature