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Environmental Chambers Manufacturers and Companies

IQS Directory implements a thorough list of environmental chamber manufacturers and suppliers. Utilize our listing to examine and sort top environmental chamber manufacturers with previews of ads and detailed descriptions of each product. Any environmental chamber company can design, engineer, and manufacture environmental chamber to meet your companies specific qualifications. An easy connection to reach environmental chamber companies through our fast request for quote form is provided on our website. The company information includes website links, company profile, locations, phone, product videos and product information. Customer reviews are available and product specific news articles. This source is right for you whether it's for a manufacturer of AGREE chambers, environmetal stress screening chamber, and environmental rooms.

  • Holland, MI

    Russells Technical Products has been designing and manufacturing environmental test chambers since 1972. With over 150 years of combined management experience, our company provides its customers with quality environmental test systems and advanced manufacturing techniques. Russells offers a variety of standard and custom designed chambers to meet your exact specifications.

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  • Cincinnati, OH

    We are leading environmental test chamber brand with over 78 years of experience designing environmental testing solutions. Over the years we have developed products for ease-of-use, reliability and performance designed to meet our customer’s testing needs and improve the safety and reliability of their products. We have a legacy of providing high quality solutions for temperature, humidity, altitude, thermal shock, combined environments, HALT/HASS and more; in sizes ranging from benchtop to large walk-in/drive-in chamber for full-vehicle testing. Please contact us today for more information!

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  • Holland, MI

    A pioneer since 1962, Thermotron has been building the most recognizable environmental test equipment in the industry. Every chamber and shaker sold is handcrafted in West Michigan and comes with an intuitive controller. From automotive and defense, to electronics and medical industries, Thermotron has helped companies small and large create more reliable products. When you need to know whether your product(s) will stand the test of time, rely on proven test chamber from Thermotron.

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  • Grand Rapids, MI

    Weiss Technik is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacturing techniques of environmental test chambers. We offer a complete line of standard and custom chambers, from bench top models to full walk-in and drive-in solutions to meet any testing requirement. Not sure what you need? Let one of our applications engineers help. Weiss Technik is ISO 9001 registered and A2LA accredited.

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  • San Jose, CA

    Hastest Solutions designs, manufactures and provides solutions for all environmental testing needs. For the full range of environmental test chambers, including HAST, temp/humidity, salt fog, solar radiation, high temp ovens, autoclave, temperature cycling, sand and dust testing, rain, triple zone chambers, including custom sized chambers, please contact us.

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  • Hatfield, PA

    Isotech specializes in state-of-the-art environmental test chambers. With our standard and custom test chambers we strive to offer our clients products that are specifically designed to fit their needs. Isotech offers technical specifications like copper screen enclosures, RF signals, and USC-26 and USC-44 series panels.

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Environmental Chambers Industry Information

Environmental Chambers

Environmental chambers, also frequently called environmental test chambers and sometimes called climatic or climate chambers, are test chambers that assess product quality and reliability. In order to do so, chambers replicate certain environmental conditions within an enclosed space, where they monitor and evaluate the long term impact of these conditions on the product inside. Common environmental conditions that chambers simulate include normal and extreme pressures, altitudes, temperatures and humidities. By subjecting products and equipment to extreme environmental conditions and changes, manufacturers are able to catch and correct weaknesses and flaws before they are sent on to their chosen markets.

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Purpose of Environmental Chambers

Environmental chambers have applications within several industries, such as: construction, pharmaceuticals, medical processing, food processing, automotives, engineering, consumer goods and services and packaging. Generally, environmental chambers are used to test objects like biological items, electronic products and components and industrial products. Specifically, some products that undergo testing include: makeup, medicines, car parts, cigarettes and kitchen appliances. How exactly are these items tested for effectiveness and durability? Well, medicines, for example, can undergo temperature testing in environmental chambers called temperature chambers, where manufacturers determine their optimum storage temperature. Or, take the example of car parts. Car parts are often placed in chambers where they are subjected to changing levels of salt spray and humidity; this allows automotive manufacturers to test the corrosion resistance of their parts and products. Kitchen appliances can undergo a variety of tests that gauge their durability. Vibration tests, for example, can reveal how well they respond to extended periods of vibration.

Design of Environmental Chambers

Test chambers range widely in size and design, thanks to the vast range of the product sizes and applications they serve. They range from, at their largest, drive-in chambers that fit aircrafts, to, in the middle, complex walk-in chambers, to, at their smallest, simple benchtop chambers. Most test chambers also have some kind of viewing access point, whether that be a physically accessible area, like a viewpoint such as a window, or a remotely accessible area, like viewing feed displayed in a control room. In addition, some test chambers have a "reach-in" capability that allows an engineer to reach into the chamber to handle the material inside. Controls are another variable feature of environmental chambers. The choices available range from simple analog indicators to modernized digital readouts displayed on LCD screens. Environmental chambers may also be controlled via a computer, network or web-enabled program. Furthermore, they may or may have interior visual lighting installed.

Other conditions that environmental chambers replicate include: thermal shock (caused by sudden and extreme temperature variations), electromagnetic radiation, dust and sand, rain, vacuums, UV degradation (caused by sun exposure) and weathering. They can also replicate multiple conditions at once, since often, in the real life of a product, one exposure, such as heat, will accompany another, such as humidity. Thermal shock, radiation and vacuum tests are all frequently used for the assessment of aerospace applications, like space shuttle components.

Standards and Specifications of Environmental Chambers

To suit the needs of the customer and ensure quality, environmental chambers may be manufactured to meet the requirements of any number of temperature control, construction or engineering tolerances standards, such as those set by: ASTM International, Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST), Underwriters Laboratory, Canadian Standards Association, NSF International, Factory Mutual, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (formerly known as the American Refrigerant Institute) and the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers.

Things to Consider When Choosing Environmental Chambers

The reliability of environmental test results are incredibly important, which is why the right choices of design and construction are so important as well. Consistency is key; the conditions of an environmental chamber should remain as uniform as possible. To maintain accuracy, it is important for operators to remember to calculate in any variances that may alter results, such as pre-existing environmental conditions, bers man-made interferences (which are to be avoided) and, if applicable, heat generated by interior lighting. Properly observed, calculated and evaluated testing results will offer invaluable information to product manufacturers. Armed with test results, they can fix flaws or faults and retest their products until they are ready to be released. With higher quality products, manufacturers will save on potential repair costs and they will have fewer warranty reimbursements to process. The purchase and use of environmental chambers, while somewhat expensive and tedious, are important steps for any serious business to take, because consumer safety and satisfaction are crucial to success. What’s more, the savings from the results of proper testing quickly outstrip the purchase cost of test chambers. having to process fewer warranty reimbursements.



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