Consumer Product Testing

  • New product testing and appraisal for manufacturers, certifiers and suppliers
  • Trading Standards testing and complaints investigation
  • Comparative, benchmark and performance testing to specification
  • Defect analysis, product problems and failure investigation
  • Routine testing in accordance with National and International Standards, industry norms, in-house specifications
  • Development of customised testing programmes
  • Evaluation of products for operability, productivity and durability
  • Evaluation of materials for specification compliance and fitness for purpose
  • Safety evaluation
  • Examples of products we have tested and evaluated include:
    • Shelves and display units: Loading, 24 hour tests, testing to destruction, safe working load calculation
    • Automotive products: bumpers and racks
    • Furniture: Chairs, tables, units
    • Garden tools: Shredders, mowers and blowers
    • Hand tools: Screwdrivers and hammers
    • Kitchen and bathroom fixtures and fittings
    • Ladders: combination platforms, failures
    • Power tools: Drills, grinders and saws
    • Submersible pumps: Flow and pressure
    • Taps: Flow and durability
    • Fans: Flow and noise
    • Jacks: Load rating