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Tony Braddon, Managing Director of Intertek Milton Keynes said: “Our expertise and technology has enabled us to develop our lubricants and fuels testing portfolio and we now offer one of the most comprehensive commercially available suites of CEC tests in Europe. This expertise has enabled Intertek to be a test development partner with the CEC on some of the newest test standards and we are now able to offer those newly developed test procedures to global lubricant and fuel companies as well as our core automotive OEM clients.”
Supporting the lubricant industry worldwide
The Milton Keynes business is part of a global assurance, testing, inspection and certification company, which also has one of the largest networks of analytical testing laboratories in the world.
To compliment the fuels and lubricants testing carried out using the engine test cells at Milton Keynes, Intertek’s other laboratories also provide quality and quantity measurement, inspection, consultation and laboratory testing services to the fuel and lubricant industry.
Intertek provides lubricant analysis in many of its other laboratories for the testing of all types of machinery and systems that use lubricants. This enables the detection of engine wear, lubricant quality degradation, and other problems, in the process helping their clients identify potential problems whilst they
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Intertek tests various fuels, including all petroleum-refined fuels, biofuels, natural gas, LNG & LPG to provide extensive quality control, contamination analysis, quality confirmation, trace residual analysis, regulatory compliance assessment and related quality services. Working to standards including ASTM, ISO and IP Intertek provides assistance
are still in the early stages of product development and therefore treatable. Solving problems at this stage saves time, money and man hours and allowing clients to focus fully on their core activities.
Intertek’s lubricant testing capabilities range from oil condition monitoring, gear lubricants testing, lubricant quality scanning services and marine lubricants testing to automotive industry engine lubricant tests andlubricant qualification testing services. Intertek also offers ferrography testing, oils and fluids testing, wear metals testing and oil analysis.
to its clients with troubleshooting, trace contamination issues, quality confirmation and the most challenging of fuel analyses, supporting refinery, tanker, pipeline, terminal, fleet and other operations.
Furthermore Intertek conducts fuel R&D, looking looking at purity and components, physical properties, material interaction and additive evaluation amongst others.
Fuel testing capabilities include fuel purity and quality, fuel contamination, fuel quality failure investigation, fuel additives, fuel pipeline trans-mix fuels and co-mingled fuels, physical properties testing, energy value, trace components, trace contaminants, fuel research, fuel safety & regulatory parameters and bacteria in fuel tanks and systems.
With its 130 year history and its network of more than 1,000 laboratories and offices and over 40,000 people in more than 100 countries, Intertek delivers innovative and bespoke Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification solutions for its customers’ operations and supply chains.
LINKS
www.intertek.com/automotive/ miltonkeynes
www.intertek.com/petroleum/ testing/lubricants
LUBE MAGAZINE NO.135 OCTOBER 2016
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