At Global Laboratories, our comprehensive suite of testing services encompasses environmental, material, calibration, and product assessments for automotive, maritime and rail systems, as well as for electric vehicle technologies.
We aim to minimise service disruptions and ensure that our clients' vehicles, both commercial and private, meet regulatory standards and are market-ready. Our esteemed standing in the automotive, maritime and rail sectors is anchored in our extensive experience, global expertise, prompt service delivery, and unwavering commitment to quality.
We foster strong collaborative relationships with leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers, assisting them in enhancing their systems, components, and entire vehicles. Our mission is clear: to guarantee that all products and materials we evaluate for our clients adhere to the highest standards of compliance, safety, and functionality.
We deliver a comprehensive suite of tailored destructive and non-destructive testing (NDT) and inspection services designed for the transportation sector. Our focus extends to minimising service disruptions and ensuring regulatory compliance and market readiness for both commercial and private vehicles. Leveraging our esteemed standing in the automotive, maritime, and rail sectors, we draw on extensive experience, global expertise, prompt service delivery, and an unwavering commitment to quality. We foster strong collaborative relationships with leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers, assisting them in enhancing systems, components, and entire vehicles. Our mission is clear: to guarantee that all products and materials we evaluate for our clients adhere to the highest standards of compliance, safety, and functionality.
We stand out with our expansive global laboratory network, featuring over 4,000 committed scientists, engineers, and technologists. Uniquely positioned to support the transportation sector throughout the product life cycle—from R&D to manufacture, life extension, and disposal—our global and local quality credentials, coupled with numerous Transportation customer approvals, confer upon us unparalleled international capabilities, footprint, and geographic reach within the Testing, Inspection, and Certification industry.
At Global Laboratories, our unwavering purpose is to swiftly validate our customers' designs with global competitiveness in terms of price, lead time, and result certainty. Every aspect of our operation is meticulously crafted to guarantee the perpetual safety, superior quality, compliance, and perfect suitability of the materials, products, and services we assess.

○ CNC Machining
○ 3D Printing
○ Composite Fabrication
○ Metal Forming
○ Sample Preparation

○ Mechanical Properties
○ Functional Properties
○ Impact Testing
○ Fatigue Testing
○ Performance Testing
○ Hardness Testing

○ Mechanical and Wear Testing
○ X-ray photoelectron
○ Corrosion Resistance Testing
○ Thermal Testing
○ Humidity Testing

○ Gleeble Testing
○ High Strain-rate Testing
○ 2D/3D DIC
○ High-speed Recording
○ Explosion Testing

○ Metals, Alloys and Welds
○ Polymers
○ Composites and Fibres
○ Ceramics
○ Rubbers and Elastomers

○ UT/IUT
○ X-ray/Industrial CT
○ Liquid Penetrant
○ Magnetic Particle
○ Eddy Current Testing

○ Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
○ X-Ray Diffraction
○ Metallurgical Microscopy
○ EBSD

○ Material verification
○ Material identification
○ Chemical composition
○ Contaminant detection & residue analysis
More than 50% of our worldwide laboratories exclusively serve the aerospace sector.
GLOBAL LABORATORIES LTD
124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX