The Heat & Flame Testing Laboratory of NITRA has a wide variety of sophisticated instruments to test the following for heat, flame and safety related characteristics:

  • Personal Protective Clothing,
  • Upholsteries,
  • Automotive Fabrics,
  • Floor Coverings,
  • Fabric supplies to Railways

Major instruments:

  • Radiant Heat Tester
  • Heat Transmission Tester
  • Molten Metal splash tester
  • Automatic flammability tester for vertically oriented samples
  • Vertical flammability tester
  • Horizontal flammability tester
  • Inclined flammability tester
  • Toxicity tester
  • Automatic Limiting Oxygen Index tester
  • Retro reflectance & Spectrophotometer tester (High Visibility Clothing Testing Equipment)
  • Weld spatter impact tester
  • Contact heat tester
  • Electric resistivity tester
  • Smoke Visibility Test Apparatus
  • Fire resistance tester
For test parameters and other details