National Physical Laboratory (NPL) services

NPL offers measurement and consultancy services to support the quality assurance and lifetime management of materials, via our extensive accelerated test instrumentation and expertise.

As the UK’s leading measurement expert, we help companies identify the root causes of product and materials failures faster, enabling them to help improve product safety, manage financial liabilities and avoid reputational damage.

NPL offers measurement and consultancy services via our special to type test rigs and novel/emerging measurement techniques for composites process. NPL are able to provide measurements and advice on physical, thermal and fluid properties across a wide range of temperatures, pressures and materials. These measurements provide the data that industry needs to optimise production processes and develop the new products that are required to address national challenges for instance related to hydrogen and sustainable aviation.