UL fire safety Analytical Services

For manufacturers, improving time to market and optimizing supply chain performance are crucial to ongoing profitability. However, these two objectives can be derailed when organizations lack an efficient strategy for achieving safety compliance.

UL Analytical Services gives manufacturers access to a wide array of testing services for every phase of the product design or product optimization process. From initial product design to final certification to the materials provided from suppliers during manufacturing, UL makes it possible for your organization to efficiently monitor ongoing compliance.

A proactive approach to safety compliance

Through materials characterization and predictive analysis, UL enables design engineers to test new products and optimized products for compliance throughout the design process. This greatly reduces the risk and expense-including both immediate costs and opportunity costs-of failing a fire test.

Monitoring supply chain performance

UL Analytical Services can help manufacturers determine whether material substitution options will meet certification and regulatory requirements. In addition, UL can help organizations efficiently determine how manufacturing changes will affect product safety prior to implementation.

Turn to UL for testing of:

• Polyurethane foam
• Polystyrene foam
• Polyvinyl chloride foam
• Gypsum wallboard
• Mattresses
• Upholstered furniture and components
• Composite plastics and plastic lumber

The UL advantage

Because UL's core competency is in testing and analysis, we can provide design engineers with the resources to perform a wide array of tests without assuming the overhead of expensive equipment, opportunity costs and additional staff resources. And by working with UL, manufacturers can leverage the company's more than 100 years of product testing expertise.

UL Analytical Services practice areas

• Materials characterization (chemical, physical, thermal, combustion)
• Root-cause failure analysis
• Materials supply-chain verification
• Materials substitution options
• Predictive analysis
• Product design optimization
• Aging and reliability studies