Modern Fastener Test Lab Opens Anixter Fasteners, which sources and supplies fasteners and C-class components, said its £450,000 A-LAB facility would offer an extensive range of fastener testing and failure investigation capabilities.Stainless fasteners are particularly suited to industries where corrosion resistance and environment are top concerns.Industries include food, marine, aerospace, chemical plant and electronics.The Anixter lab is independently audited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service accredited to International Organization for Standardization17025, which covers the competence of testing and calibration laboratories and is the main ISO standard used by testing and calibration labs.Talking about the new laboratory, Richard Hawker, vice president of technical services at Anixter,http://www.7th-gear.us/, said: "We support the largest OEMs, including a large proportion of the automotive industry."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."A-LAB's services fall under five categories metallurgical, mechanical, chemical, failure investigation and product finish testing.It also includes tensile strength, proof load, locking patch performance, torque tension,Replica Oakley Sunglasses, tortional/drive test, ferrite determination, hardness (surface and core) and micro-hardness.Anixter said this array of tests requires use of "extensive specialist equipment", including optical emission spectrometers, as well as facilities to undertake specific tests such as salt spray testing.Lab analysts will verify properties of engineering components as well as analysing conformity and determining suitability of materials.Metallurgist Lee Pugh said: "At A-LAB in Gloucester we offer over 25 different tests to scrutinise the integrity of a huge array of components. We work to the most exacting standards of a broad range of industries, covering the specifications of BS, ISO, ASTM and Ford."