Areva technical center gets ISO laboratory accreditation

Areva Inc.’s U.S. technical center can now offer equipment qualification services to a range of industries as a result of the company's recently receiving ISO 17025 Laboratory Accreditation.

The accreditation from the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) enables the company’s technical center to provide component testing and calibration services to the aircraft, automotive, consumer electronics, medical, information technology, HVAC and telephone industries.

Areva’s Vice President of Products and Technology Marty Parece said the technical center’s accreditation gives companies from various industries confidence that the center’s test methods and quality system meet the internationally recognized, rigorous ISO standards.

The technical center, which is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, offers full-service safety testing capabilities. It was originally developed to support Areva’s nuclear activities and features a seismic analysis laboratory with a tri-axial shake table capable of testing items weighing up to 10 tons, environmental chambers to assess thermal aging and component performance in harsh conditions, along with metallurgical and chemistry labs to evaluate material properties.