One accredited lab.
Six calibration
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UKAS calibration means your instruments are calibrated by a laboratory independently assessed and accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service under ISO/IEC 17025:2017. Unlike simply "traceable" calibration, UKAS accreditation involves a rigorous technical assessment of the laboratory itself, its equipment, staff competence and measurement processes. Regulated industries including pharmaceutical, aerospace, defence and food manufacturing require UKAS-accredited certificates for audit compliance. A certificate from an unaccredited lab is routinely challenged by inspectors.

Yes, and it is straightforward. Send us your most recent calibration certificate and we will quote a like-for-like service matching your existing scope, parameters and tolerances. No retraining for your quality team, no changes to your audit evidence, and no switching cost. Around half of the quality managers who enquire with Labcal are moving from another provider, typically because of slow turnaround, inconsistent service or a lab losing parameters from its UKAS schedule.

ISO 9001:2015 Clause 7.1.5 requires measurement equipment to be calibrated against standards traceable to national or international measurement standards. UKAS accreditation is the recognised way to demonstrate that traceability to your certification body. Most ISO 9001 auditors and registrars expect to see UKAS-accredited certificates for externally calibrated instruments. Using a non-UKAS lab is not automatically non-compliant, but it places the burden on you to justify the alternative.

Average turnaround is 8 working days from receipt of instruments at our Lymington laboratory. A 3-day fast-track service is available by arrangement for urgent requirements. Turnaround time begins when instruments arrive at the lab, not when you send them. We can arrange courier collection for high-volume or regular customers to remove the logistics burden.

Yes. Several national testing houses use Labcal for specialist parameters they do not hold on their own UKAS schedule. We offer a managed courier network for sending instruments back and forth and quote each job directly. Get in touch if you need an independent UKAS partner for gas and air flow, air velocity, or high-accuracy pressure and temperature work.

Traceable calibration means the calibration chain can be traced back to national measurement standards, but it carries no guarantee about the quality of the laboratory performing the calibration. UKAS accreditation adds an independent technical assessment of the laboratory itself, verifying its equipment, processes, staff competence and quality management system meet ISO/IEC 17025:2017 requirements. For regulated industries, most audit frameworks and quality standards specifically require UKAS or equivalent accreditation, not simply traceability.

Labcal calibrates instruments across six parameters under UKAS Lab 0625: gas and air flow, liquid flow, pressure, temperature, humidity and air velocity. This covers a wide range of instrument types including flow meters, pressure gauges and transducers, digital thermometers, temperature and humidity probes, data loggers, anemometers and pitot tubes. We regularly calibrate instruments from Testo, TSI, Fluke, Dwyer, Omega, Comark, Endress+Hauser, WIKA, Vaisala, Rotronic, Airflow Developments and Bronkhorst among others. All calibrations are performed at our laboratory in Lymington, Hampshire.

Yes. Labcal is accredited under the ILAC Mutual Recognition Arrangement (ILAC MRA), which means our UKAS certificates are recognised by accreditation bodies and audit teams in over 100 countries. Certificates issued under ILAC MRA signatories carry equivalent status, removing the need for recalibration when instruments are used internationally or when supplying customers in other countries.