Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions serving a wide range of industries around the world, inaugurated its first testing Laboratory in Mumbai running on electronic and electrical platform to provide enhanced testing services to their customers across diverse industries.
Intertek’s expertise in Electronic & Electrical sector covers domestic appliances, consumer and home electronics, automotive components, heating ventilation and air conditioning equipment, monitors, telephone equipments, power supplies for IT applications, industrial controllers, general purpose luminaries, lighting, semi-conductor manufacturing, TV receivers, pumps and lab equipments, etc.. It also provides industry specific global safety, electro-magnetic compatibility (EMC) and specialised telecommunications testing and certification services. This ensures that customers are able to comply with the widest range of international standards and end-user requirements.
Intertek conducts electrical safety testing to ANSI/UL, CSA, NFPA, IEC, EN and other standards, EMC testing to local or global requirements, benchmarking and performance testing for R&D or competitive differentiation, environmental compliance to different energy efficiency programs, RoHS, or ErP Directive (formerly EuP) requirements, and turnkey certification management.
“This is our second lab launch in Mumbai in the last three months and this will cater to the certification of certain products to Indian, International, European and North American standards. We have a strategic think- tank at the senior level to devise ways to add value to our customers alongwith a team of well trained engineers, latest test equipment, and online support from our overseas laboratories that would ensure our client’s satisfaction and delivery needs”, said Mr. Paul Yao, Executive Vice President, Intertek Group.
Safety is crucial to any electric and electronic product or unit operation. To help make these processes safer, Intertek’s Safety Testing Laboratory focuses on the safe handling of certain electronic and electrical products and their efficiency.
“This lab compliments our safety and testing certification for a variety of products which are well equipped to characterize your materials and determine their critical properties. We provide clients with highly sophisticated testing support throughout the product lifecycle and also testing and certification to take care of electrical, electronics, industrial and machinery products and in the next phase planning to enhance our capabilities in EMI and EMC” Said Mr. Rajesh Saigal, Managing Director, Intertek India.