EMC Testing Labs in Västerås – Accredited Facilities

FORCE Technology

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FORCE Technology is a Danish self-owned, non-profit GTS institute (Approved Technological Service provider) headquartered at Park Alle 345 in Broendby, and is one of Scandinavia's largest technological service companies. Its EMC operation runs across three Nordic sites - Hoersholm and Aarhus in Denmark and Vaesteraas in Sweden - and is among the most heavily equipped in northern Europe. The flagship chamber measures 20.1 x 13.0 x 8.8 m with a 3 x 3 m port, a 5 m turntable rated to 10,000 kg distributed load and a floor rated to 10,000 kg/m2, allowing whole vehicles and large industrial installations to be driven in and measured at 1 m, 3 m or 10 m. The estate includes 10 m and 3 m anechoic chambers with hybrid absorbers, both semi-anechoic and full-anechoic configurations, 10 m and 3 m reverberation chambers reaching roughly 1,000 V/m, multiple shielded rooms and climatic chambers. Published capability covers radiated and conducted emissions from 9 kHz to 40 GHz, radiated immunity from 26 MHz to 40 GHz, ESD to plus or minus 30 kV, EFT/burst to plus or minus 4.8 kV, surge to plus or minus 10 kV, conducted immunity 9 kHz to 230 MHz at up to 30 V RMS or 260 mA, and power-frequency magnetic field to 1,000 A/m, with supplies to 400 VAC three-phase at 125 A / 60 kW, 690 V three-phase AC and 1,100 V DC. Accreditation is ISO/IEC 17025 through DANAK (testing registration no. 100), and FORCE is an IECEE CB Scheme national certification body and CB test laboratory as well as a notified body. For vehicles it is an appointed Designated Technical Service for UNECE R10 covering both electronic sub-assemblies and whole vehicles, and is designated by KBA and STA so it can produce documentation for the German e1 and Swedish e5 schemes. It also operates a genuinely mobile, military-grade MIL-STD-461 test facility that deploys instrumentation and specialists to a customer's own site for security-restricted or untransportable platforms, and runs the EMC Club, a members' network giving access to do-it-yourself pre-testing facilities with in-house specialist support at Hoersholm and Aarhus.