
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