TÜV Italia has a new testing laboratory in the Turin area

Since mid-August, the TÜV Italia Group's new high-tech Testing Laboratory has been operational in Volpiano, a few kilometres from Turin.

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The TÜV SÜD Group, founded in 1866, is a certification, inspection, testing and training body of international technical reference. TÜV ItalyTÜV SÜD, founded in 1987, has adopted the DNA of the Group to which it belongs and over the years has been committed to developing its testing activities in Italy: in 1998 TÜV Italia Laboratories were opened, following the acquisition of its testing facility from Olivetti, and in 2012 Bytest, a laboratory engaged in testing materials used in the production of industrial products, was acquired.

Over the years, TÜV Italia has thus become a national reference point for testing activities, offering specific technological expertise, indispensable whenever companies need to face complex industrial challenges and global markets. With the opening of the new test laboratory in Volpiano, which houses the TÜV Italia and Bytest laboratories in a single centre, the organisation has taken another step forward.

"The opening of this new test laboratory demonstrates our commitment to our Italian subsidiary and is an important signal we are sending both to our customers in Italy and to those throughout Western Europe - especially in these difficult times of pandemic and difficult economic circumstances. And my thanks go to everyone who made this possible," said Axel Stepken, Chairman of the Board of Directors of TÜV SÜD. "We are proud to create new jobs and secure existing ones. This ultra-modern structure, which meets the needs, even the most sophisticated ones, of our customers, is able to accompany them along the long development path of their projects, giving them certainty and inspiring confidence."

The issuing of new and more complex international regulations on product safety leads to an increased demand for testing, which companies tend to outsource in order to concentrate on their core business. This trend has resulted, and the data shows, in an increase in the number of requests for testing by external laboratories.

The project for the new laboratory began in the summer of 2019 and was completed in record time, despite the slowdown due to the lockdown. It was a radical intervention on an already existing structure, which has thus become one of the largest independent test laboratories in Europe, a reference point for companies in all industrial sectors: an area of 8000 square metres, divided between a 2000 square metre office building and a 6000 square metre shed housing the numerous test facilities. Highlights include a large, modern semi-anechoic chamber, where electromagnetic compatibility tests are carried out, and a new bunker for non-destructive radiographic tests.

The investment amounted to approximately 15 million euro.

 

 

 

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