Test Laboratories for Individual Components
ECO Certificazioni, through its own laboratory in Padua (Italy) and a network of partner laboratories, offers all the tests for the automotive sector.
Reliability and safety
ECO Certificazioni carries out numerous types of laboratory, track, and road tests for the Automotive sector to guarantee the utmost reliability and conformity with safety requirements.
In Europe, they interface with European Authorities and with the Italian Ministry of Transportation.
ECO, through its own laboratory and a network of laboratories, offers all testing for standardisation purposes:
- tests for braking systems with ABS;
- power and drivability tests
- COP tests;
- noise, vibration, and comfort tests
- component resistance tests;
- tests on materials;
- EMC – electromagnetic compatibility tests;
- emissions test benches and SHED chamber.
More specifically, as of today we are engaging builders of Cat. L vehicles, offering various emissions tests, thanks to the presence of an emissions bench and a SHED camera (diurnal and hot soak) in our own laboratory.
Applicable directives and regulations
The Directives applicable according to different types of vehicles are:
Category L vehicles: Reg. (EU) 168/2013 on the approval and market surveillance of two- or three-wheel vehicles and quadricycles.
Vehicle Categories M, N, O: Dir. 2007/46/EC establishing a framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles.
Vehicle Categories T, C, R, S: Reg. (EU) 167/2013 on the approval and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles.
Stationary motors: Reg. (EU) 2016/1628 in the harmonisation of the legislation of Member States concerning the provisions to be adopted against gaseous and particulate pollutant emission produced by internal combustion engines for non-road mobile machinery.
Electric motors: Reg. ECE R100 Uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regard to specific requirements for the electric power train.