Forge Fedriga’s ISO EN 17025 Accredited Lab

Forge Fedriga’s in-house Mechanical Testing Laboratory performs non-accredited and accredited tests according to ISO EN 17025.

UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018 accreditation

ISO EN 17025 accreditation certifies that the laboratory meets technical and management system requirements, which are essential to ensure technically valid results of the mechanical and corrosion tests. Thus, the Lab’s impartiality, technical skills, and operation are certified for the area of accreditation listed in the tests provided and published on the ACCREDIA website together with the list of accredited tests.

This accreditation is valid only for the tests shown in the list and that, over time, may vary as well as have to adjust to regulatory updates after the accreditation for each specific test. Accreditation is subject to an annual inspection by ACCREDIA. It may be reduced, revoked, or suspended if non-compliance is found.

The UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018 accreditation awarded to the Forge Fedriga Lab was assigned by Accredia, the Single National Accreditation Agency appointed by the Italian government according to European Regulation 765 of 2008. In summary, our Company complies with UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17025: 2018 requirements as a Testing Laboratory, as certified in 2017 and renewed in 2020.

Non-accredited tests performed at the laboratory

Among the non-accredited tests performed by the ISO 17025 Laboratory are ASTM G28-A, ASTM A262-B, ASTM A262-C, and EN ISO 3651-1 corrosion tests, as well as ASTM A604/A604M, ASTM E340 and ASTM E381 macro chemical attack tests.

Furthermore, the laboratory performs ASTM E290 bend and austenite spacing tests ASTM E112 and DNV-RP-F112.

GOST-1778-70 non-metallic inclusion tests and ASME SA370 mechanical tests are also guaranteed.

Accredited tests performed at the lab

In compliance with ISO 17025, Forge Fedriga’s lab also performs several accredited tests, as follows:

• Brinell hardness
• resilience tests on notched specimen
• Vickers hardness; assessment of non-metallic inclusions
• volume fraction by systematic manual point counting
• microscopic examination
• Rockwell hardness
• resilience tests on Charpy tube
• resistance to pitting with ferric chloride
• the second phase content by the automatic image analysis method.

In addition, a chemical analysis of aluminum, antimony, arsenic, nitrogen, boron, boron, calcium, carbon, cobalt, chromium, phosphorus, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, copper, silicon, tin, titanium, vanadium, zirconium and sulfur is also performed.

The accredited tests performed by Forge Fedriga’s lab include also:

• tensile tests at room temperature
• high-temperature tensile tests
• resilience tests
• average grain size test
• intergranular corrosion test in sulfuric acid and copper sulfate
• harmful intermetallic phases test
• sodium hydroxide test
• ferric chloride corrosion resistance.

The technique may differ depending on the type of test to be performed. Optical microscopy, comparison with type images, visual examination, gravimetry, tensile or Charpy pendulum may be used.