EMC Testing Labs in Milan – Accredited Facilities

CESI / KEMA Labs - Milan

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CESI's Milan site on Via Rubattino, operating within the KEMA Labs group, is primarily a high-voltage and high-power testing institution of international standing, and its EMC laboratories exist to serve that electrical-grid caseload rather than general consumer compliance. The EMC facilities comprise two anechoic chambers for radiated and conducted immunity testing plus three shielded chambers dedicated to conducted immunity, burst immunity and fast transient testing - a configuration aimed squarely at protection relays, substation automation, energy meters and switchgear control electronics, which must survive the transient environment of a substation rather than a living room. The surrounding estate is on a different scale from anything else in this directory: a high-voltage hall measuring 45 by 40 by 42 metres with a 4,800 kV charging generator storing 240 kJ, rated for lightning impulses to 2,700 kV and switching impulses to 1,800 kV over a 20 by 14 by 13 metre test space; AC sources to 700 kV and impulse generators to 2.0 MV with partial discharge, radio interference voltage, capacitance and tan delta measurement; three cable prequalification lines for systems to 800 kV including a concrete tunnel and a salt-water pool; and a high-power area with six 500 MVA single-phase transformers on a 220 kV grid, a 2,000 MVA short-circuit generator and an external bay for transformers to 400 MVA and 400 kV. The energy meters laboratory is a notified body for the Measuring Instruments Directive annex MI-003, the smart metering laboratory dates from 2000, and ATEX and IECEx certification for explosion-protected equipment is issued through KEMA Labs. Specialisations are protection relays and IEC 61850 substation automation, energy meter certification under EN 50470 and the IEC 62052 to 62059 series, smart metering, switchgear and surge arrester testing, and high-voltage dielectric and HVDC qualification.

IMQ S.p.A.

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IMQ is Italy's principal product conformity assessment organisation, operating for around seventy years from its Milan headquarters and laboratories on Via Marco Fabio Quintiliano, and the IMQ mark it issues is one of the longest-established safety marks in Europe. More than 10,000 companies have used it for product certification. Its electromagnetic compatibility laboratory forms part of a much larger testing estate - accredited sites at Milan (ACCREDIA registration 00013), Udine (00529) and Torino (00728), with additional facilities at Bollate, Treviso, San Vendemiano and Macerata - and that scale is the point: EMC measurement sits alongside electrical safety, performance and accelerated life testing, so a single submission can produce both the EMC evidence and the safety certification a product needs. EMC coverage comprises radiated and conducted emissions, mains harmonics, flicker, radio disturbance power and click analysis on the emission side, and radiated and conducted immunity, power-frequency magnetic field immunity, fast transient burst, surge, voltage dip and electrostatic discharge immunity on the immunity side. IMQ is a notified body for the principal EU directives, including the EMC Directive 2014/30/EU, under which it issues EU type-examination certificates, and for the Radio Equipment Directive; it is accredited as a product certification body to ISO/IEC 17065 and as a testing laboratory to ISO/IEC 17025, and is an IECEE recognised certification body and CB testing laboratory at its Milano, Treviso and Macerata sites. It is additionally a notified body for the Medical Devices Regulation and IVDR. Specialisations are household and similar appliances, lighting, electrical installation material and switchgear, electromedical equipment, IT and multimedia products, and gas and energy-using appliances.

Prolab Service srl

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Prolab Service operates a test laboratory on Via Ratti at Lesmo in the Monza e Brianza province of Lombardy, running electromagnetic compatibility work in an anechoic shielded chamber alongside an unusually wide non-electrical scope. The EMC bench covers emissions and immunity with electrostatic discharge, fast transient burst and surge testing, and the laboratory pairs it with vibration and shock testing, stress testing, durability and ageing cycles and reliability verification - so a product can go through environmental and mechanical qualification and EMC in one place. Beyond that it does chemical testing, including tests for products in contact with food, cosmetics and toys, and RoHS compliance work by X-ray fluorescence analysis of homogeneous materials with the compliance file prepared alongside. It has also moved into cybersecurity testing for IoT hardware, embedded systems and medical devices, which is becoming a gating requirement under the Radio Equipment Directive and the Cyber Resilience Act. Its staff sit on Italian standards technical committees CT62 for medical devices, CT59 for household appliances and CT34 for lighting fixtures, which is a meaningful signal of depth in those three product families. The laboratory will also design and build bespoke test equipment to a customer's requirement, and works through associated laboratories where a test falls outside its own scope. It publishes no ACCREDIA accreditation or ISO/IEC 17025 number and is recorded here without an accreditation entry; testing supports CE marking and the voluntary KEMA, TUV, GS, CB and Nemko schemes. Specialisations are combined EMC with mechanical, chemical and reliability testing, RoHS by XRF, product cybersecurity, and custom test rig development.

TUV Rheinland Italia S.r.l.

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TUV Rheinland Italia runs the group's Italian testing estate from Pogliano Milanese on the north-western edge of Milan, with further offices at Bologna and Naples. The site is organised into five principal laboratories - chemical, electrical safety and environmental, EMC, mechanical and wireless - supplemented by automotive, wheel, solar and calibration facilities, and the EMC department operates two chambers, the second of which was inaugurated in December 2020. ACCREDIA accreditation covers roughly 350 test methods across the electrical, chemical, environmental, mechanical and EMC disciplines, which is what allows a product to be taken through EMC, safety, materials and chemical compliance under one accreditation umbrella rather than split between specialists. Regulatory reach is the other distinguishing feature: IECEE recognition covers household appliances, medical devices, photovoltaics, measuring equipment, EMC and IT and audio-video products for CB Scheme certification; designation by the German ZLS allows issue of the TUV GS Mark; designation by the German KBA covers automotive approval; and FCC and ISED recognition handles North American market access. The product range the laboratories serve is unusually wide - food contact materials, refrigeration and heating, electrical and radio equipment, large and small domestic appliances, furniture, textiles, toys, leisure products, renewable energy generation, and medical and electromedical devices, plus automotive and rail transport. Specialisations are domestic appliances and white goods, photovoltaics and renewable generation, medical and electromedical equipment, wireless products, and consumer goods for retail programmes.

White Lab S.r.l.

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White Lab S.r.l., trading as Test'ing, runs its laboratory at Falconara Marittima on the Adriatic coast just outside Ancona, with a registered office on Via San Gregorio in Milan, and holds dual accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025 - ACCREDIA number 01044 in Italy and a Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation scope under reference L25-83 in the United States - so reports can carry recognition in both markets. A new semi-anechoic chamber has been added to the site. The testing scope is deliberately broad for a laboratory of its size: electromagnetic compatibility, electrical safety under the Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU, radio testing for wireless devices, environmental and climatic testing, plastic materials testing including glow-wire to IEC/EN 60695-2-10, and chemical testing for RoHS under Directive 2011/65/EU. Two areas stand out as deliberate specialisations rather than add-ons. The first is medical device cybersecurity, backed by published guidance on the Cyber Resilience Act - a scope that is becoming a gating requirement and which few EMC laboratories have built out. The second is biocompatibility testing, which sits alongside the EMC and safety work so a medical device programme can be run largely from one laboratory. The firm publishes technical notes on specifics such as the third edition of IEC 61000-4-2 for electrostatic discharge, a sign of a laboratory tracking edition changes rather than testing to whatever is loaded in the software. Sectors served are medical, domestic appliances, mobile and IT, lighting, and materials and chemistry.