EMC Testing Labs in Toulouse – Accredited Facilities

Groupe Emitech

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Groupe Emitech is France's largest independent environmental and EMC testing group, with over 30 years of experience and 17 testing centres, ten of which house EMC and radio laboratories. The group was built around electromagnetic testing and has grown by acquisition into a federation of specialist laboratories - Emitech, EMC, Eurocem, Adetests, L.E.F.A.E., Environne'Tech, PIEME, Emitech GNSS and Emitech R&D Moteurs - each holding its own COFRAC accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025 (Adetests 1-2472, EMC 1-7032, Emitech 1-7460, Emitech-GNSS 1-6924, Environne'Tech 1-1245, Eurocem 1-0744, Lefae 1-1972, R&D Moteurs 1-7740). Emitech itself is also COFRAC-accredited for calibration (2-7461) at Montigny and under ISO/IEC 17065 for product certification (5-0549), and operates as Notified Body No. 0536. The fleet is one of the most comprehensive in Europe and can run up to 230 simultaneous test campaigns: more than 50 Faraday cages including two dedicated to whole-vehicle EMC, mode-stirred reverberation chambers, over 140 climatic chambers, more than 50 electrodynamic vibrators up to 120 kN, hydraulic shakers and combined benches. The headline facility is a very large Faraday cage measuring 27 x 18 x 10.5 m in Ile-de-France, paired with a 4x4 chassis dynamometer running to 120 km/h for full-vehicle CISPR 12/25, ISO 11451, ISO 11452, ISO 7637 and ECE R10 work, plus AC/DC charging simulation and a driving robot. Recognition runs deep on the automotive side: Technical Service status with CNRV in France for R10 and with KBA in Germany via the ALEE alliance, JLR recognition at Montigny (JLR-EMC-CS v1.0 Amendment 4) and Stellantis (CS.00244), FCA (CS.00054) and Volvo recognition at the Sochaux/Etupes Eurocem centre. Aerospace credentials sit with the Lefae laboratory - NADCAP, Safran AQPS 573, Rolls-Royce SABRe 155070/001, Dassault Aviation Z37 and Airbus QTML 327973 - though these cover fire, flammability and environmental methods rather than EMC. IECEE recognition covers both National Certification Body and CB Testing Laboratory roles, and FCC and ISED recognitions support North American market access. Beyond EMC the group runs TEMPEST/EMSEC, cybersecurity, GNSS, battery, propulsion, hydraulic, fire, NVH and HALT/HASS testing, designs custom test benches, and provides simulation, regulatory expertise, metrology and Qualiopi-certified training.

SCLE EMC Laboratory (SCLE SFE)

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The SCLE EMC laboratory was created in 1997 by SCLE SFE, a manufacturer that has been building equipment for high-voltage substations for more than 40 years. That origin explains the laboratory's character: substations are electrically hostile environments, and validating its own products' emission and immunity performance led SCLE to build a test facility that it then opened to external customers. It is based in Toulouse and has been COFRAC-accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 since 1998, specialising in the civil, industrial and railway sectors, and positions itself as both a test provider and an engineering partner able to evaluate installation performance and reliability. The facilities are unusual in mixing conventional EMC with high-power infrastructure. A Faraday chamber with external dimensions of 7.2 x 3.9 x 3.1 m and an interior of 6 x 2.8 x 2.5 m provides radiated immunity from 80 MHz to 3 GHz at 3-30 V/m over a 1.5 x 1.5 m uniform field area at 3 m. An electromagnetic field free zone east of Toulouse supports 10 m radiated emissions measurement from 30 MHz to 6 GHz against Class A and Class B limits to EN 55011, EN 55022 and IEC 61000-6-4. A 1,000 m2 power test platform with four test areas supplies up to 20,000 V and 3 MW, covering 750 and 1500 VDC and 400 to 20,000 VAC with a programmable supply to 180 kVA. The standout capability is a purpose-built coil designed in-house to qualify equipment against ITER's static magnetic field environment, generating 0 to 265 mT across a homogeneous 0.7 m cube with -0/+3 dB uniformity from a 150 kW input, weighing 8 tonnes; higher levels are available on request. The accredited standards list covers CISPR 11/22/24/32, CISPR 14-x, IEC 60255-26 for protection relays, the full 61000-6 generic family including 61000-6-5 for power plant and substation environments and 61000-6-8 for professional equipment, EN 50121-x railway, EN 50130-4 alarm systems, IEC 61326-x, IEC 60601-1-2 and EN 12015/12016 for lifts and escalators, plus an immunity test suite that includes the less common IEC 61000-4-10 damped oscillatory magnetic field and IEC 61000-4-16 common-mode conducted disturbance from 0 Hz to 150 kHz.