Have you heard about Smiths UKAS Accredited Laboratory?

Very few?metal stockholders are able to offer in-house laboratory services, but at?Smiths Metal Centres, our testing is provided to you as standard. Our services afford numerous benefits to our customers. Our laboratory is tied in with our quality management system to offer a much broader continuity of service. Speed of response, peace of mind, technical advice from our team of metallurgists are all benefits of our state-of-the-art facility.

We undertake both single-event materials testing and ongoing sampling programmes that can be tailored to fit a customer’s requirements. Also, we are able to offer testing routines for specific customer applications enabling us to offer a supply route for materials with unique certification requirements.

Having invested in modern, computer-controlled testing equipment we are able to offer a fast turnaround on most testing requirements. We aim to understand all customer requirements and have experience within a wide range of industries; this gives us the ability to offer all our customers, large and small, a high-quality, cost-effective service.

Available Tests

• Tensile Testing
• Charpy Impact Testing
• Chemical Analysis
• Metallurgical Analysis
• Corrosion Testing
• Hardness Testing
• Physical Properties Testing