TÜV Italia, a testing and certification company founded in 1987, inaugurates a new testing laboratory in Volpiano (Turin), which houses the TÜV Italia and Bytest laboratories, previously located in Piedmont but in different locations. The issue of ever new and more complex international regulations on product safety leads to a greater demand for controls that companies tend to outsource to concentrate on their core business. This trend has as a consequence an increase in testing requests to external laboratories.
The project to build the new laboratory began in the summer of 2019 and saw a radical intervention on an existing structure, transforming it into one of the largest independent testing laboratories in Europe. The companies that turn to TÜV Italia to carry out tests of any kind on their products are many and varied and there is no shortage of those related to automotive, in this case manufacturers and suppliers. “We carry out tests on all types of material, for example, we work on a large number of carbon components for various automobile brands. Our advice can even influence the design of a model: if the sheets are welded in an unsuitable place, designers and planners will have to intervene in the aesthetics of the car,” the company explains.
The new laboratory has a total surface area of 8,000 square metres, divided between an office building of 2,000 square metres and a shed of .6000 square metres that houses the numerous test facilities, and between these two real flagships: a large, modern semi-anechoic chamber where electromagnetic compatibility tests are carried out and a new bunker for non-destructive radiographic tests. This new test laboratory of the TÜV Italia Group required an investment of about 15 million euros.
