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Whitelab offers advanced testing and consulting services for the automotive, marine, and aerospace sectors, ensuring quality, safety and innovation. With cutting-edge technologies and specialized expertise, we support companies and manufacturers in the development of high-performance materials and components.
Thanks to fully equipped laboratories and a multidisciplinary team, we carry out testing on metals, polymers and composites, environmental simulations and non-destructive testing. Our approach combines analysis, research, and engineering to support clients through all stages of the product life cycle.
Whitelab combines specialized expertise, advanced infrastructures and cutting-edge technologies to carry out all types of testing, both destructive and non-destructive, ensuring precision, reliability and compliance with international standards. Alongside our testing services, we offer engineering and product development support, working closely with companies to identify the most suitable solutions and contribute to the optimization of processes and innovation.
Our laboratories are equipped to analyse metallic, polymeric and composite materials, through mechanical, chemical-physical and micrographic tests, as well as corrosion analysis, emissions testing and chemical resistance assessments. Thanks to highly advanced equipment, we perform vibration tests and environmental simulations, along with advanced investigations such as computed tomography, thermography, digital image correlation and 3D scanning, allowing for detailed evaluation of material structures and identification of potential critical issues.
Our approach goes beyond testing: we offer comprehensive, cross-disciplinary consulting services to tackle the most complex challenges in industrial production. From project management to production planning, from the development of custom equipment to failure analysis and even technical support in legal contexts, we act as a strategic partner in driving our clients’ growth.
Thanks to the integration of specialized know-how, proprietary technologies and a strong focus on research, Whitelab is a trusted reference point for the most demanding sectors automotive, aerospace, defense and marine, offering high value-added services and solutions that combine innovation and quality.
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Polymers and Composite Materials
Testing on: carbon fiber, glass fiber, plastics, FRP, coatings, natural fibers, rubber, and foams.
Destructive Testing (DT)
Destructive Testing (DT)
- Mechanical tests: tensile, compression, flexural, resilience, hardness, impact, pull-off/adhesion
- Chemical/physical tests: DSC, DMA, VICAT, FT-IR, density, SEM
- Microscopy: thickness, porosity
- Chemical resistance
- Corrosion tests: CASS, NSS, corrosion cycles, humidity
- Aesthetic/visual analysis: color, gloss, structure, wave scan
- Vibration tests
- Environmental simulations: temperature/humidity cycles, aging, solar box in controlled environment
- Failure analysis
- Emission tests (substances emitted by materials)
- Custom tests upon request
- TOFD, EC, and phased array (B-scan, C-scan, wheel probe)
- Computed tomography (mini/micro/nano focus, cone beam, gantry CT)
- Passive and active thermography (delamination, sandwich structures)
- High-resolution and high-speed Digital Image Correlation (DIC)
- Optical and laser 2D/3D scanning
- Combined techniques: Phaseography, Thermosonics
- Conventional Non-Destructive Testing:
- Magnetic particle inspection
- Magneto inductive inspection
- Liquid penetrant inspection
- Ultrasonic testing
- Radiographic testing
- Eddy current testing
- PMI (Positive Material Identification)
- Pulsed eddy Current (PEC) testing
- AUT (Automated Ultrasonic Testing)
- ACFM (Alternating Current Field Measurement)
Metals and Alloys
Testing on: carbon steels, alloy steels, stainless steels, superalloys (nickel-based/duplex), light alloys, tool steels, welds, brazed joints.
- Chemical analyses: optical emission spectrometry, ICP plasma, XRF, determinations of C/S/N/O/H, on-site PMI
- Mechanical tests: tensile (up to 1000°C), impact (+200°C/-196°C), hardness, creep, stress rupture, fracture mechanics
- Metallography: micrography, macrography, grain size, microhardness, inclusion content
- SEM/EDX analysis
- Corrosion tests: NSS, AASS, CASS, Kesternich, SWAAT, ASTM (A262, A923, G34, G48, etc.), SOHIC, SSC/HIC
- Welding tests (WPS, WPQR, welder and operator certification)
- On-site metallographic replicas
- Residual austenite analysis with XRD diffractometer
- Residual stress measurements (hole drilling)
- Tribological and wear tests (integrated 3D tribometer)
- Advanced UT techniques: phased array and TOFD
- Tests on civil construction materials (authorization by Ministry of Infrastructure)
Services and Support
- Engineering support: project management, production planning, equipment development and construction, reverse engineering
- Mechanical machining to support testing
- Heat treatments (weld stress relief, production phase simulation)
- Metallurgical and quality consulting
- Failure analysis in laboratory and field
- Technical legal consulting
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