About Element Kitchener
Element Kitchener is an internationally accredited, CGP approved, well-rounded materials testing laboratory servicing the automotive, military, aerospace and consumer goods industries.
The facility is ideally located in the Tri City Area of Ontario and only 60 miles west of Toronto.
With a focus on Service and Quality Excellence, the team in Kitchener has defined themselves as a cost -effective extension of their customers’ product development and quality assurance teams. They accomplish this by providing technical expertise and capabilities in the areas of materials, environmental, vibration, durability, and reliability testing.
Element Kitchener Expertise
Environmental Testing
The core of testing services offered center on the properties and durability of interior and exterior automotive, military, and consumer goods parts and components.
Explore Element Kitchener specialties.
Kitchener Featured Services
Automotive Testing
Find out how Element has supported the Automotive OEMs and their Supply Chain Partners for over 100 years with their ongoing and ever evolving technical and commercial challenges.
Thermal Analysis Services
Element provides thermal analysis methods for determining important material characteristics, including DSC, TMA, DMA, and more.
Accelerated Weathering
Exposure to the environment can degrade paints, coatings, and products. Element offers accelerated weathering, including UV exposure, xenon arc and carbon arc to ensure the integrity of your product.
Salt Spray Testing
Find out how our Engaged Experts conduct salt spray testing, or natural salt spray (NSS) to evaluate the integrity of a coating in a corrosive environment or to test the corrosion resistance of a product or material.
Our team of over 9,000 Engaged Experts in North America, Europe, The Middle East, Australia, Asia and Africa are ready to help you.
Environmental Testing
Automotive Testing
• Applied Pressure
• Applied Vacuum
• Data Acquisition
• Dimensional Stability
• Environmental Durability
• Fixture Design
• Force Vs Displacement
• Life Cycle
• Material Stress
• Mechanical Durability
• Proof Loading
• Step Stress
• Thermal Shock
• Vibration and Shock
Corrosion Testing
• Accelerated Corrosion
• Acidic Atmosphere
• CASS
• Cyclic Corrosion
• Filiform Corrosion
• Salt Spray
• Scab Corrosion
Simulated Environments
• Cyclic Corrosion
• Environmental Cycling
• Fogging
• Humidity
• Oven Aging
• Ozone
• QUV Exposure
• Salt Spray
• Sunlamp Exposure
• Thermal Shock
• Weather-o-meter
Ingress Protection
• IP1, IP2, IP3, IP4, IP4K, IP5, IP6, IP7, IP8, IP9K
• IP5K, IP6X, IP6K
Physical, Mechanical, Surface Property Testing
• AATCC Gray Scale Evaluations
• Abrasion
• Car Wash
• Chemical Resistance
• Clean-ability
• Coating Thickness
• Color Evaluation
• Crocking
• Cure Test
• Five Finger Scratch
• Flexibility
• Gardner Impact
• Gravel-o-meter
• High Pressure Cleaning
• Hydrogen Sulfide Exposure
• Nissan Scratch
• Odor Testing
• Oil/Gas Immersion
• Paint Adhesion
• Thermal-shock
• Paint Film Permeability
• Pencil Hardness
• Perspiration
• Scuff and Mar
• Solvent and Detergent Resistance
• Specular Gloss
• Spot Test Acid, Water And Soap
• Stone Hammer
• Surface Roughness
• Taber Abrasion
• Thumbnail Hardness
• Water Immersion
• Water Jet
Durability And Fatigue
• Combined Durability & Environmental
• Component Evaluation
• Experimental Stress Analysis
• Flammability, FMVSS302
• Flow Measurement
• Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT)
• Life Cycle Endurance
• Load Vs Deflection
• Mechanical Durability
• Pressure Cycling / Environmental Fatigue
• Servo Hydraulic Fatigue
• Structural Testing
• Vehicle Seat Cycle Testing
Military and Aerospace Testing
• Altitude
• Explosive Atmosphere
• Fluids Susceptibility
• Icing/Freezing Rain
• Leak Testing
• Linear/Constant Acceleration
• PIND
• Rapid Decompression
• Sand and Dust
• Solar Radiation
• Waterproofness/Rain Exposure
• Vibration and Shock
• Wind driven rain
Dynamics Testing
• Combined Vibration and Environmental
• Classic Shock (Half-Sine, Sawtooth)
• HALT/HASS
• Linear Acceleration (Centrifuge)
• Random
• Random-on-Random
• Sine Dwell
• Sine-on-Random
• Sine Sweep
• Sound Testing
• SRS Shock
Mechanical Testing
• Adhesion of Painted and Metallic Coating
• Breaking Strength of Plastics and Metals
• Brittleness
• Coating Weight
• Compressive Strength of Foam, Plastics and Metals
• Density and Specific Gravity
• Flexural Bending (3 Point) Modulus
• Hardness, Rockwell, Knoop/Vickers
• Heat Treat Verification
• Impact Testing
• IZOD
• Load Testing of Components/Assemblies
• Peel Testing
• Shear Strength
• Tensile Properties
• Torque
• Weld Quality/Strength
• Welding and Brazing Analysis
Chemical & Failure Analysis Testing
• Contamination Analysis
• Failure Analysis
• Fourier Transform Infrared
• GC/MS With Gerstel TDS
• GC/MS With Headspace
• HPLC
• Microscopic Evaluation
• Off-Gas Analysis
• VOC Testing
• Volumetric Analysis
• SEM/EDS
• Energy Dispersive Spectrometer
• Fractography
• High Magnification Imaging
• Identification of Contaminants
• Measurement and Distribution
• Semi Quantitative Chemical Analysis
• Verification of Coating Types
• Thermal Analysis
• Compositional Analysis
• Crystallinity
• Cure
• DSC – Differential Scanning Calorimetry
• Melt Flow Indexer
• Melt Point
• Oxidative Induction Time
• Temp
• TGA
• Thermal Stability
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Approvals, accreditations and documents
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Kitchener A2LA Mechanical ISO 17025 Certificate and Scope
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