UKAS Accredited Laboratory

Alloy testing services

Our in-house UKAS accredited materials testing laboratory offers a wide range of services and our metallurgists undertake consultancy services in a variety of application areas.

With a team of full-time resident metallurgists, we offer our customers a broad range of services, including materials testing and analysis. We aim to understand all customer requirements, and we combine this with our knowledge and experience in the motorsport materials marketplace; this gives us the ability to offer all our customers, large and small, superior, cost-effective service while maintaining continuity within the supply chain.

We utilise our laboratory to perform tests and analysis on our high-performance materials and work with our customers to offer the most suitable product option for a particular application, and we provide this all under one roof.

A customer visiting our UKAS Laboratory, operating one of our Charpy impact testers.

Unique Proposition

Very few stockholders test in-house; however, we are different.

We believe that having an in-house laboratory adds significant value to our business. We know that operating in an industry which places the highest demands on the supply chain requires excellent services. Our UKAS laboratory gives designers even more options due to the testing and analysis we can perform.

Hardness testing performed by one of our metallurgists.We undertake material investigations for our customers, which helps to resolve issues.
We recently another tensile testing machine to increase capacity.

New Facility

Our UKAS Accredited Materials Testing Facility has found a new home.

The facility moved from our Group's bulk warehouse in Biggleswade, to a new, state-of-the-art site. Our laboratory has subsequently benefitted from considerable investment in new testing equipment and personnel, which has increased capacity and the scope of testing now available.

We have invested in new equipment, including a fume cupboard, where we can safely work with chemicals.Smiths Technical Services moved to a new location in 2024.
Charpy impact testing is one of many testing methods our laboratory uses.

Net Zero Journey

We are committed to lowering our overall carbon footprint and are actively working towards achieving net zero emissions by 2030.

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