ADEY Professional Heating Solutions’ R&D facility in Kent is now a BuildCert approved laboratory to test products for the Chemical Inhibitor Approval Scheme (CIAS).

ADEY’s new hi-tech lab, which is based at the Kent Science Park, is one of just three in the UK to be approved by BuildCert. It is now officially recognised to conduct and qualify products in accordance with CIAS test procedures, to a quality standard based on UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service). The approval was granted following an audit of ADEY’s quality management systems, testing equipment and laboratory operating procedures.

ADEY’s chemical technical manager, Mo Jassal, said: “Becoming an approved BuildCert test laboratory within six months of opening is a huge achievement and testament to the commitment of the team. It involved a lot of hard work behind the scenes to make sure all the procedures and quality management processes are in place and these all had to be written from scratch.

“We also invested heavily in new equipment which needed to be validated and all our testing records were vigorously audited.”