Smithers Rapra expands Ohio lab's tire testing - Tire Business
-- ArtID: 150629984 ArtByline: Tire Business Staff Report ArtCategory: NEWS ArtCategoryName: NEWS ArtTitle: Smithers Rapra expands Ohio lab’s tire testing ArtMainPhoto: /apps/pbcsi. AKRON (June 23, 2015) — Testing firm Smithers Rapra has completed a realignment of its tire and wheel testing laboratory in Ravenna, Ohio, that will bring it in line for global tire rolling resistance standards. The company said the effort qualifies the laboratory for the measurement of tire rolling resistance with the Global Network of Reference Laboratories defined in (EC) No1222/2009. The correlation extends Smithers Rapra ’s capabilities as an... “Expanding our ability to test to the R117 standards at our U. S. lab provides our global customers with a network of certified Smithers Rapra laboratories to test their tires,” said James A. Popio, vice president and general manager of Smithers... He noted that the company’s testing laboratories in Ravenna and Suzhou, China, can now service customers that manufacture tires for the European market. The fully correlated Smithers Rapra Tire and Wheel Test Laboratory now allows European approval authorities’ and their clients to state rolling resistance data for European type approval, conformity of production (CoP), and the EU labeling... Source: www.tirebusiness.com
