UKAS Accreditation for Hart Scientific's European

Hart Scientific, a Fluke company, gained UKAS accreditation for its new European primary standards temperature laboratory in Norwich, UK

(PRWEB) November 15, 2003 --Hart Scientific, a Fluke company, today gained UKAS accreditation for its new European primary standards temperature laboratory in Norwich, UK. With its exceptional uncertainty schedule and unique combination of both temperature and electrical expertise, the lab is now Europe's premier commercial temperature laboratory.

The facility, which first opened to customers in June 2003, now offers a comprehensive range of UKAS-accredited and traceable calibrations as well as metrology services to organisations with high-end temperature measurement instruments that require calibration and verification to ITS-90 standards, the international temperature scale established in 1990.

Peter Crisp, Hart Scientific's European primary laboratory manager, said, "UKAS accreditation is not only a demonstration of our laboratory's competence, but is also something that our customers have come to expect from any Fluke or Hart Scientific laboratory." Crisp went on to say, "Furthermore, the integrity offered by a UKAS accredited certificate gives users a unique guarantee of confidence and encourages those striving to improve their own temperature measurement and calibration capabilities to capitalise upon these resources."

Following the acquisition of Hart Scientific by Fluke Corporation in July of 2001, the two companies have been keen to raise the profile of world-class temperature metrology in Europe. Colin Ross, managing director of Fluke Precision Measurement in Europe, commented, "The importance of temperature calibration around the world has increased enormously over the last fifteen years, as industry strives to meet increasingly stringent regulations. Working together, Fluke and Hart offer the European marketplace a wealth of experience and expertise." Ross added, "We are now providing European metrologists and technicians with local unequalled temperature metrology expertise and can offer them the full Hart Scientific product portfolio with support, directly from our European facility in the UK."

The laboratory is equipped with standards and calibration equipment capable of temperature measurement from -200 °C up to +1000 °C, with uncertainties as low as 0.00007 °C. It has the capacity to provide both accredited and traceable calibration services to producers and users of precision temperature measurement equipment throughout greater Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Such a high level of measurement accuracy is required in primary and secondary laboratories, as well as a growing number of manufacturing companies who rely on precise temperature controls for manufacturing processes. These industries include pharmaceuticals, petrochemical and food products.

The lab utilises a wide range of Hart Scientific equipment such as ITS-90 fixed-point cells, maintenance furnaces, standard platinum resistance thermometers (SPRTs), thermometer readouts and fluid baths, as well as using electrical standards supplied by Hart Scientific's parent company Fluke. The Lab's UKAS Accredited and other traceable calibration services are available in each country through Hart Scientific's distribution network.
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