Becker Industrial Coatings Lab Gains ISO Accreditation
BERLIN, Germany - The UK-based Long Term Development Group of Becker Industrial Coatings has become one of the first laboratories in the world to gain ISO 17025 (General Requirements for the Competence of Calibration and Testing Laboratories) accreditation for the testing of solar reflectance and other thermal properties of coatings and painted surfaces according to the ASTM Methods E 903, C 1371 and E 1980.
The ISO 17025 accreditation enables Beckers to offer its customers and other interested parties a fully traceable and externally audited testing facility for the measurement of these radiative and thermal properties. The United Kingdom Accreditation Service, the sole national accreditation body recognized by the British Government, provides the accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025.