UKAS Test House Shropshire by Cranage EMC & Safety (Testing UK)

UKAS Laboratory for EMC & Product Safety Testing

Cranage EMC and Safety is UKAS accredited to evaluate your product for EMC, Electrical Safety, Mechanical, Energy Related and Environmental performance. We have extensive services and facilities to be able to evaluate your product for worldwide market entry, including the UK, Europe, North America, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia. We are accredited and recognised by:

- United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS)
- United Kingdom Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS)
- UK Conformity Assessed marking (UKCA)
- Approved Body for EMC Directive 2014/30/EU
- U.S Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Canadian Certification and Engineering Bureau, Ontario (IC)

EMC Test House UK

Partnering with Cranage is about much more than testing. As a family business, we pride ourselves on our service levels and this is the one of the reasons we see a lot of our clients returning to us for their testing requirements. We offer a comprehensive range of EMC, Environmental and Product Safety Testing and our pre-compliance service can be used for fault finding during the start of your project, where we offer guidance and advice on anything that may cause potential issues during full compliance testing. Our UKAS accreditation provides assurance that we have been independently assessed as technically competent, with accurate and reliable test methods.

Our Test House consists of fully equipped laboratories with specialist facilities and expertise to evaluate a wide range of products. However, if your equipment is large or in-situ, we are able to offer our testing on your premises.

We are able to offer a complete range of EMC testing at Cranage, including in-situ testing at a manufacturers premises, and a pre-compliance service. We have multiple EMC test chambers at Cranage, including a semi-anechoic chamber for radiated emissions testing and a fully-anechoic chamber for radiated RF immunity testing.

The CE mark is a certification that a product conforms with health, safety and environmental protection standards for products sold within Europe. It can also be found on products in the International market, making it recognisable around the world.

CE marking is complex, as each product has a different set of criteria it must meet. The team at Cranage have vast experience of the standards and testing required and are able to advise you.

CE marking shows that a manufacturer has checked their product meets the necessary requirements for the European market and is therefore compliant with legislation. Cranage have experience of dealing with a range of items, from electrical equipment to toys and medical devices.

The UKCA mark is the new UK product conformity mark, indicating a product confirms with the applicable requirements for selling within Great Britain, which came into effect on 1st January 2021. Following the UK�s exit from the EU, Cranage EMC and Safety is now a UK Approved Body (no.2583) and together with our wholly owned Irish subsidiary, Cranage Veritas, we can assist with a complete service from design conception, to full product evaluation. We can also offer advice and support on the content of a Declaration of Conformity and Technical File for the UKCA and CE mark.

Environmental testing allows manufacturers to review whether their product can withstand the stresses of the environment in which it is to be placed, as the natural elements can cause a product to deteriorate. Our climatic chambers include:

- Humidity
- Solar radiation
- Temperature cycling
- Salt spray
- Shock and Vibration

At Cranage, we can offer Ingress Protection testing, commonly referred to as IP testing, in accordance with IEC 60529. IP testing tests a products resistance to dust and water infiltration.

We have expanded our environmental testing facilities to be able to offer IPX9k testing. This high-pressure and high-temperature IP testing is the highest rating available for water ingress protection. IPX9k testing is for evaluating machinery used in highly regulated industries, such as medical, food and beverage, oil, gas and chemical industries.

Our new facilities also include a 17,500 litre walk-in climate chamber, with a testing range of -40c to +80c and humidity range of 20 per cent to 93 per cent, and a large walk-in dust chamber with an internal test volume of 18m2

Medical and therapeutic
-Baby breathing monitors
-Blood sampling equipment
-Electro-stimulus equipment for slimmers
-Infusion device analyser
-Medical electrical stimulator for IVF
-Tablet counter
-Viewer for x-ray films
-Prosthetic limbs
-Spirometer
-Overhead lifting for patients

Scientific and laboratory
-Mass spectrometers
-Chart recorders
-Data acquisition & control systems
-Electricity tariff meters
-Fluid level gauges
-Gas pressure monitoring equipment
-High speed test equipment for PCB's
-Laboratory X/Y plotters
-Magnifier light/scopes
-Motor control equipment
-Motor protection systems for oil platforms
-Photo-electric sensors
-Pressure transducers
-Radio activity fall-out monitors
-Stable isotope analyser
-Tunable lasers & filters for optical fibres
-Water flow & leakage monitors
-Water sludge samplers

Industrial equipment
-Air compressors
-Automatic door operating mechanisms
-Baggage x-ray equipment
-Balancing instruments for rotating machines
-Battery chargers
-Battery condition monitors
-Battery operated lifting gear
-Control equipment for agricultural tractors
-Combustion engine test equipment
-Concrete preparation equipment
-Crane load safety monitors
-Diesel generators
-Distributed I/O computer system for ind.plant
-Enclosures/cabinets for electrical equipment
-Food mixers for bulk tanks
-Fork lift trucks
-Gambling machines
-Industrial high voltage generators (15kV)
-Packaging machinery
-Rotary encoders
-Safety switches and interlocks for machinery
-Solid state three phase generator
-Test equipment for textiles
-Textiles machinery for panty hose/stockings
-Thermal laminator for paper
-Welding equipment

Mobility aids
-Wheelchairs
-Stairlifts
-Adjustable changing table

Road and Rail
-Roadside lights
-Roadside data collection boxes
-Railway signaling test equipment

North America and Canada Certification (NRTL Testing)

The US and Canadian markets for electrical and electronic products are conditioned to accepting product approval marks and safety certification from a Nationally Recognised Tetsing Laboratory (NRTL). Cranage EMC and Safety offers an NRTL certification service in the UK, in conjunction with Metlabs. . An NRTL mark, under federal law, is required on products used in the workplace in all states.