As the first independent plastics testing laboratory in the U.S., STR has spent over 60 years applying our expertise in the physical sciences to meeting client needs. Today, STR is a leading provider of product safety, performance testing, quality assurance, consulting, and diverse chemistry services to the plastics and rubber industries. With core competency in analytical, electrical, and physical testing, and a global laboratory network, STR also provides compliance solutions for regulatory and environmental issues on a worldwide basis.

Our portfolio of services includes:

• Engineering consulting and testing services to clients developing new materials, evaluating current products, or seeking regulatory recognition.

• Test programs and methods development designed to meet industry standards, client specific protocols, and targeted applications.

• Fully equipped labs that can perform general property appraisal and competitive analyses of industrial raw materials and finished products.

• Testing and Analysis of:
  • Mechanical, thermal, and flammability properties, including UL 94 flammability and UL 746B RTI programs

  • General electrical properties, thermal cycling, and UL 1446 insulation systems: motorettes, sealed tube, magnet wire, and varnish testing

  • Analytical properties, including identification, quantification, wet-chemistry, spectroscopy, gas chromatography, optical, and thermal analyses.

  • RoHS compliance

• Sample preparation, including compression and injection molding, and specimen machining.

STR (US) has on-site plastics and electrical engineers, and is registered with the FDA, requiring our analytical lab to operate under cGMP.