About Element Kitchener Laboratory
Element Kitchener is an internationally accredited, CGP-approved materials testing laboratory serving the automotive, military, aerospace, and consumer goods industries. Located in Ontario’s Tri-City Area, the laboratory delivers a complete suite of environmental, durability, vibration, mechanical, corrosion, and materials characterization services that support product development and qualification programs.
With a focus on service and quality excellence, the Kitchener team operates as a cost-effective extension of customer engineering groups, providing applied pressure and vacuum testing, dimensional stability, life cycle and fatigue evaluations, thermal shock, fixture design, and force-versus-displacement measurements. Extensive environmental simulation capabilities include temperature and humidity cycling, salt spray, cyclic corrosion, fogging, QUV exposure, sunlamp/IR exposure, and weather-o-meter testing.
The laboratory also specializes in military and aerospace testing including altitude, explosive atmosphere, rapid decompression, icing/freezing rain, leak testing, sand and dust, solar radiation, and waterproofness. Additional services include mechanical testing, chemical and failure analysis, thermal analysis, ingress protection, and advanced dynamics testing with combined vibration and environmental profiles.
Element Kitchener provides comprehensive testing expertise designed to validate product performance, reliability, and durability across demanding real-world conditions.
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Compliance and capabilities at Element Kitchener
Approvals, accreditations and documents
Components and materials we test at this location
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Automotive Components
- Interior & exterior automotive components
- Structural components
- Trim components
- Plastics, foams, metals
- Seats & subassemblies
Military & Aerospace Components
- Aerospace components
- Defense components
- Environmental and durability-critical hardware
Consumer & Industrial Components
- Consumer goods components
- Industrial assemblies
- General engineered materials
Materials & Surfaces
- Coatings
- Painted surfaces
- Elastomers & rubber
- Polymers and composites
- Metals and alloys
- Fabrics & surface finishes
Failure Analysis & Chemical Components
- Contaminants
- Coatings
- VOCs
- Thermal properties
- Chemical properties
Standards tested to at this location
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General Standards / Certifications
- CGP Approved
- ISO/IEC 17025:2017
Environmental & Simulation Testing
Temperature / Humidity Simulation
- Thermal Shock (Air–Air, Liquid–Liquid)
- QUV / UV Exposure
- Salt Spray / CASS / Cyclic Corrosion
- Weather-o-meter
- Fogging
- Ingress Protection (IP1–IP9K, IP5K, IP6X, IP6K)
Military & Aerospace Environmental Testing
- Altitude
- Explosive Atmosphere
- Rapid Decompression
- Icing / Freezing Rain
- Sand & Dust
- Solar Radiation
- Waterproofness / Rain Exposure
- Linear / Constant Acceleration

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