Aerospace, Automotive, Marine & Consumer Product testing
Whether you are a Retailer or a Manufacturer, ensuring your products are safe, durable and fit for purpose is essential to your business.
Sometimes this can seem quite a task!
Are your products:
- Struggling to improve product quality?
- Interested in how your products compare against your competition?
- Defending your market against cheap imports?
- Confused by product certification requirements and legal compliance?
RKS's expertise can identify "problems" with your products, quickly rectify them so you can almost immediately benefit from costs saving from fewer product returns and increased customer satisfaction!
But why choose RKS Laboratories?
- We are a UKAS Accredited test laboratory - you can rely on our results, which are recognised and accepted world wide.
- Our 'Intelligent Testing' ethos means that our consultants will keep you informed throughout the testing process, highlighting any failure modes and recommendations for improvements. Our honest and open approach is what makes market leading multinationals return to RKS again and again.
- Our expertise lays in bespoke testing and custom test programmes, hence we can adapt standards and programs, designing & building unique test rigs, should your testing required this approach.
- Our designers & engineers use latest 3D CAD/CAM software with Finite Element Analysis simulation tools to provide you with optimized designs.
- We have the only external weathering station on the South Coast.
Our test laboratory can offer a range of tests for products destined for Automotive, Aerospace, Marine and Construction industries.
We have a vast experience in:
- Automotive & Aerospace filters testing - range of mechanical tests, environmental and chemical exposure
- break hoses - range of mechanical and environmental tests
- carbon fibre prepregs - tack measurement
- life jacket foam buoyancy testing
- GRP testing of boats (mechanical strength, flexural tests and others)
- sealants, adhesives and other construction products testing
- pipeline coatings - cathodic disbondment, peel, tear, impact tests and many more
- insulation products testing
If your requirements are outside of the above range of tests please contact us and we will be more than happy to help!
Product Benchmarking
Only by Benchmarking you can truly rate your products against their competitors.
With our independent test laboratory you can be sure to receive a quality and comprehensive report which can be a basis of your marketing claims!
Make your product stand out from the crowd and gain a market advantage by protecting your products from cheap and inferior imports.
For a number of years we have been one of the laboratories testing and benchmarking consumer products for one of the expert magazines providing advise for consumers.
We have tested products from adhesives, through footballs and satnavs
to zips and cleaning products, no matter what you need testing we can help!
We test to international test standards including BS, EN, ISO, DIN, ASTM and our independent laboratory has UKAS accreditation, meaning the results will be accepted world wide!
CE Marking, GS Mark & market entry for new productsIs your product manufactured outside of European Union?
Would you like to sell it in United Kingdom and other European countries?
You are then legally required to have your product tested and certified to the quality and safety standards for this type of product and compile a full technical dossier.
RKS can help you with both aspects of the CE Marking process!
We have a vast experience in testing of consumer products and our team can prepare the necessary documentation for you. Leave all the work to us, and you will be able to sell your product in the EU quicker than you thought.
Additionally, we can help you approve your product to Equipment and Product Safety Law, also known as GS Mark.
Our connections in Asia, will allow us to provide an ongoing surveillance of the manufacturing facilities, introduce ISO quality systems and make sure you have the market advantage over your competition.
Trust us and save time and money.
Product Design, Product Development & Product Enhancement
"Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw."
- Frank Thomas
From Concept to Production, our experienced consultants can help at every stage of the design process.
Straight from the 3d models, we can supply technical documentation and quickly build an inexpensive prototype, ready for tests and verification in our laboratory.
Our experience and knowledge of international test standards means that any product will be design with all the regulations in mind and comply to the latest safety and quality standards.
Our design team uses latest edition of professional 3D CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design/Manufacturing) modelling software to us deliver quality designs in a efficient and cost effective manner.
Additionally, such virtual prototypes can be tested with the Finite Element Analysis tools available to us, to help us enhance and optimise the design to create the best solution.
Obviously, all the work carried out for you will be covered by Non Disclosure Agreements and we also can advise on the legal aspects of design process and current requirements
When your product is ready to hit the shelves, our service doesn't stop! We will stay in touch, should you require further testing or design assistance.
Alternatively, if you already have a designed product, we can thoroughly test it and help you develop it further and implement necessary changes to gain a competitive advantage!
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