Southdown Materials Testing Brierley Hill laboratory
Southdown Materials TestingPensnett, Brierley Hill, West Midlands
Southdown Materials Testing operates the Unit 5 laboratory in Pensnett, Brierley Hill. Current UKAS 1178 issue 045 limits the listed tests to this main address. Five groups summarise selected physical tests on metals, alloys, metal products and weldments. Exact method, specimen preparation and the separate tensile/impact conditions need agreement, with broader advertising and other entities kept separate.
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Key facts
- Exact Unit 5 laboratory
- Unit 5, Tansey Green Industrial Estate, Tansey Green Road, Pensnett, Brierley Hill, West Midlands DY5 4TL. Current schedule and owner use Industrial Estate, while the register uses Trading Estate for the same Unit 5, street and postcode. The schedule states testing at the main address only.
- Current register and dated scope
- The current UKAS register lists Southdown Materials Testing as Testing Laboratories 1178. The ISO/IEC 17025:2017 schedule is issue 045 dated 15 July 2026. Five selected physical groups below preserve method conditions and distinct withdrawn editions, with chemistry and wider owner services separate.
- Published enquiries and preparation
- The owner publishes 01384 482 880, enquiries@southdowntesting.co.uk and a contact form. It describes in-house CNC/conventional specimen machining, a heat-treatment furnace and sample collection. Normal business hours and fee-bearing fast-turnaround options are owner information to confirm for the programme.
Testing capabilities
Metal bend testing
The exact main-address schedule lists bend testing of metals, alloys and metal products under BS EN ISO 7438:2020. Agree the material, specimen geometry and method requirements. Owner advertising across plastics and composites does not extend this exact accredited material row.
Metal hardness testing
Local rows cover Brinell HBW-10/3000 under BS EN ISO 6506-1:2014 and ASTM E10-23, Rockwell C under BS EN ISO 6508-1:2023 and ASTM E18-25, Vickers HV10 under BS EN ISO 6507-1:2023, and low-load Vickers HV0.5 under that ISO edition and ASTM E384-22. The owner’s broader Knoop wording is separate from these exact current rows.
Impact and lateral expansion
Main-address scope includes ambient Izod under BS 131-1:1961(1996), Charpy V-notch at -196°C and -101°C to ambient under BS EN ISO 148-1:2016, ASTM E23-25 and ASTM A370-24a, and lateral expansion under ISO 148-1:2016/ASTM E23-25. The Charpy temperature wording contains a discrete -196°C condition and a separate -101°C-to-ambient range, without a continuous -196°C-to-ambient claim.
Ambient metal tensile testing
Two separately listed ambient tensile rows specify forces 40 to 1000 kN and forces up to 50 kN. Both list BS EN ISO 6892-1:2019, ASTM E8/E8M-25 and ASTM A370-24a. The 40 to 1000 kN row also lists BS EN 2002-1:2005 and withdrawn BS 4 A4 Part 1:1966. These are individual method conditions, without inferred machine counts or a combined general force range.
Specified weldment tests and examinations
For weldments, the exact schedule covers designated bend, fracture, hardness, impact, tensile, macro/micro and visual examinations under the listed welding codes. Examples include BS EN ISO 9606, 15614, 4136, 5173, 5178, 9015, 9016, 9017, 17637 and 17639 with their specified editions. Agree the exact welding procedure, material and code rather than infer all welder certification, inspection or training services from laboratory accreditation.
Equipment and published limits
| Specification | Published value | Conditions |
|---|---|---|
| First ambient tensile force condition | 40 to 1000 kN | Exact page 2 tensile row at ambient temperature, with ISO 6892-1:2019/ASTM E8/E8M-25/A370-24a, additional BS EN 2002-1:2005 and a separately marked withdrawn BS 4 A4 row. This is one row’s condition, not an inferred frame count or combination with the up-to-50 kN row. |
| Second ambient tensile force condition | Up to 50 kN | Separate page 2 ambient tensile row under ISO 6892-1:2019, ASTM E8/E8M-25 and ASTM A370-24a. No lower bound or machine count is inferred, and it is not joined with the other row as one continuous general capacity. |
| Charpy V-notch temperature conditions | -196°C and -101°C to ambient | Exact page 2 wording, confirmed visually. Keep the discrete -196°C condition separate from the -101°C-to-ambient range. The owner mechanical card currently prints ambient to positive 196°C, so this guide follows the current schedule and requires the exact test temperature to be agreed. No general environmental chamber range is inferred. |
| Owner-described specimen preparation | In-house CNC/conventional machine shop and heat-treatment furnace | The mechanical page describes these preparation facilities qualitatively. It does not establish machine or furnace counts, temperature range, accredited heat-treatment scope or numerical specimen capacity. Its forklift offloading figure is not transferred as a test load or facility capacity. |
Access and contact
Use 01384 482 880, enquiries@southdowntesting.co.uk or the official contact form for specimen and test enquiries. The owner describes collection and in-house machining/heat-treatment preparation. It publishes normal hours Monday to Thursday 08:30 to 17:00 and Friday 08:00 to 15:00, closed bank holidays, which should be confirmed for deliveries or visits. Fee-bearing 24-hour/same-day advertising is subject to agreement. Mr S R Southall is the named contact in issue 045 dated 15 July 2026, without an independently verified present role. Exact accredited testing is at Unit 5 only, with owner onsite and sister-company services separate.
Facility contact
- Address
- Unit 5, Tansey Green Industrial Estate, Tansey Green Road
Pensnett, Brierley Hill, West Midlands, DY5 4TL
United Kingdom - Telephone
- 01384 482 880
- Website
- Official test house website
Standards and accreditation
- UKAS 1178 exact sole-address scope
- Current register 1178 and ISO/IEC 17025:2017 issue 045 dated 15 July 2026 identify Southdown Materials Testing at the Unit 5 Brierley Hill address. Both pages restrict tests to this main address. The selected five physical groups do not substitute sister-company inspection/personnel certification or broad chemical/NDT advertising for exact laboratory scope.
- Bend, hardness, impact and tensile editions
- Selected rows specify BS EN ISO 7438:2020, 6506-1:2014, 6508-1:2023, 6507-1:2023, 148-1:2016 and 6892-1:2019, ASTM E10-23, E18-25, E384-22, E23-25, E8/E8M-25, A370-24a, BS 131-1:1961(1996) and BS EN 2002-1:2005. Each scale, temperature and force restriction stays tied to its row. The withdrawn BS 4 A4 edition remains distinct.
- Weldment methods and codes
- The schedule lists specified BS 4871/4872 and BS EN ISO 5817:2023, 9606-1:2017/-2:2004, 15614-1:2017+A1:2019/-2:2005/-8:2016, 4136:2022, 5173:2023, 5178:2019, 9015-1:2011, 9016:2022, 9017:2018, 17637:2016, 17639:2022 and BCAR A8-10. Withdrawn BS EN 287-1:2011 is separately marked. Confirm the exact designated test and code edition.
- Broader owner claims and separate entities
- The owner expressly marks proof-load, wedge-load, shear and compression tests as lacking UKAS accreditation. Broader Knoop hardness and onsite work are not automatically exact 1178 rows. Southdown Welding Inspection LTD’s advertised ISO/IEC 17020 and 17024 approvals and independent welder training remain separate. The schedule’s optical-emission steel elemental analysis is chemical work outside the selected physical groups.
What to confirm with the facility
- Confirm the exact metal, product or weldment, specimen geometry/preparation, method/edition and designated welding code. Starred owner services, broader Knoop/onsite advertising and sister-company 17020/17024 approvals do not extend the 1178 main address physical scope.
- Retain the two ambient tensile force conditions separately and agree the exact Charpy temperature. The schedule says -196°C and -101°C to ambient, while the owner card prints positive 196°C. Neither separate force rows, hardness notations nor workshop/furnace descriptions establish apparatus counts, combined numerical capacity or simultaneous maximum capability.
- Confirm collection, specimen preparation, delivery/visit hours, reporting, dates and any urgent-service charges. Owner fast-turnaround and normal-hours wording are information to agree, not current availability guarantees. S R Southall is a dated schedule contact without independent present-role verification.
- Provide the project, material/product, specimen condition and dimensions, requested method/edition, test parameters, acceptance criteria, report format and dates. Agree machining, handling, delivery, access, programme and costs with the provider.
Before requesting a test
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Frequently asked questions
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Sources and review
Reviewed by Arc on 1 October 2026 in Europe/London using five fresh official owner/contact/mechanical/register/schedule captures. Current UKAS 1178 and both fully viewed pages of issue 045 dated 15 July 2026 verify the Unit 5 Tansey Green Road Pensnett Brierley Hill DY5 4TL sole-address laboratory. Schedule/owner Industrial Estate and register Trading Estate wording are retained for the same Unit 5/street/postcode, without a guessed new address. Five selected physical groups cover bend, hardness, impact/lateral expansion, ambient tensile and specified weldment tests/examinations. Separate ambient tensile 40 to 1000 kN and up-to-50 kN rows, exact hardness scales and Charpy discrete -196°C plus -101°C-to-ambient range are retained without machine counts, combined force range or continuous -196°C-to-ambient inference. Owner mechanical card’s positive 196°C wording is explicitly qualified against the current schedule. Qualitative CNC/conventional preparation and furnace, collection, current general enquiries email/phone, owner business hours and fee-bearing urgent-service advertising are supported with present arrangements to confirm. Forklift offloading number is not transferred to test limits. S R Southall is source-dated to issue 045 without an independently current role. Starred non-accredited tests, broader Knoop/onsite work, chemical elemental analysis and sister-company 17020/17024/training scope remain separate from the five physical groups. All original bodies, headers, first HTML titles/canonicals, JSON-LD/article dates and absent visible time elements, raw PDF title/27 July 2026 creation/modification dates, complete two-page images, extraction/render/font configuration/stderr and older discovery originals are retained. Older/fresh owner bytes differ while normalised visible text and JSON-LD agree, without substantive or date-change inference from hashes. Schedule discovery bytes match the fresh original. Visible 15 July 2026 issue and metadata/retrieval dates remain separate from actual review. Complete overrides clear inherited coordinates.
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Southdown Materials Testing & Inspection Services
Owner supports materials testing, collection and fee-bearing 24-hour/same-day advertising, to agree without guarantees. Starred tests lack UKAS accreditation. Broad chemistry, NDT, inspection, welder training and other entities are not substituted for exact 1178 local physical rows.
Mechanical Testing Capabilities - Southdown Materials Testing
Owner describes mechanical services, qualitative CNC/conventional specimen machining and a furnace. Charpy card prints ambient to positive 196°C, qualified against exact current negative-temperature conditions. Starred proof-load, wedge-load, shear and compression, broader Knoop and sister-company 17020/17024 approvals remain separate. Force rows do not establish frame counts or a combined capacity.
Contact Southdown - Southdown Materials Testing
Owner publishes Unit 5 premises, 01384 482 880, visibly printed enquiries email and a form. Normal business hours are owner information to confirm. Separate welding inspection and welder-training details do not establish local laboratory accreditation. Singular Material spelling in main text is retained, with exact operator from register/schedule and footer.
Search UKAS accredited organisations
Exact Southdown Materials Testing Testing Laboratories 1178 at Unit 5, Tansey Green Trading Estate, Tansey Green Road, Pensnett, Brierley Hill DY5 4TL and phone. Register Trading versus schedule/owner Industrial estate labels refer to the same specified Unit 5, street and postcode. Separate welding inspection result is excluded, protected email is not guessed.
UKAS schedule 1178, Southdown Materials Testing, issue 045
1178 issue 045 dated 15 July 2026, testing at the main Unit 5 address only. Two complete pages actually inspected. Five selected physical groups retain exact methods, hardness conditions, separate ambient tensile rows and discrete/range Charpy temperatures. Optical-emission elemental analysis is separate chemical work. Mr S R Southall is a dated contact without independent present-role verification.