6/19/2012 1:37:00 AM
NEWS BRIEFS
Anixter Fasteners Test Lab Goes Online
Anixter Fasteners announced its £450,000 independent testing laboratory in Gloucester, England, is now fully commissioned, Engineering Capacity reports.
Independently audited by UKAS and accredited to UKAS/ISO17025, the company’s ‘A-LAB’ facility offers fastener testing and failure investigation capabilities.
“We support the largest OEMs, including a large proportion of the automotive industry,” stated VP of technical services Richard Hawker. “The fasteners and components that we supply are therefore often application critical, for example in chassis build or construction of braking assemblies.”
“We take our responsibility to our customers very seriously and feel our duty to their customers just as keenly. The testing work done at A-LAB is therefore an essential part of how we deliver an exceptional standard of quality, consistency and reliability.”
Lab services include metallurgical, mechanical, chemical, failure investigation and product finish testing.
The full list includes tensile strength, proof load, locking patch performance, torque tension, tortional/drive test, ferrite determination, hardness (surface and core) and micro-hardness, case depth analysis, grain size, elongation, decarburisation, coating/plating thickness, de-embrittlement, thread lap examination, particle size, porosity assessment, surface discontinuity, inclusion content, heat treated condition/structure, locking/sealing, coating thickness and failure analysis testing.
Such tests requires extensive specialist equipment, including optical emission spectrometers, plus facilities to undertake specific tests such as salt spray testing.
Lab specialists seek to verify properties of engineering components as well as checking conformity and determining suitability of materials.
“At A-LAB in Gloucester we offer over 25 different tests to scrutinize the integrity of a huge array of components,” stated metallurgist Lee Pugh. “We work to the most exacting standards of a broad range of industries, covering the specifications of BS, ISO, ASTM and Ford.” ©2012 GlobalFastenerNews.com
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