Testing

With more than 130 years' experience, SGS offers the broadest range of product testing to clients around the world. Our global network of testing facilities, staffed by knowledgable and experienced personnel, can smooth your products’ route to market. With in excess of 64,000 employees at 1,250 offices and laboratories, you can benefit from a truly local service.

Our cost effective testing services enable you to reduce risk, shorten time to market and demonstrate the quality and safety of your product(s). Our testing services include, but are not limited to:

• Physical and mechanical tests
• Chemical (e.g. Volatile Organic Compounds - VOC) tests
• Materials tests
• Food contact tests
• Flammability tests
• Performance tests
• Microbiology or Microbiological tests
• Electrical safety tests
• Electromagnetic Compliance (EMC) tests
• Environmental safety tests
  

SGS offers full physical and chemistry testing for DIY, tools and hardware. It ensures compliance with current standards and regulations including, but not limited to, Volatile Organic Compound (VOC), Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS), REACH and California Proposition 65. Electrical Testing evaluates battery powered and corded products and components against all applicable directives.

With an international reputation for providing world-class testing services to DIY, tools and hardware clients across the globe, SGS is the ideal partner for all your testing needs.