The new Ascott scratching tool is specially designed to perform scribes on coated steel panels or test substrates prior to salt spray testing for example as described in ISO 9227. As standard, the scratch tool is supplied with 3 tungsten carbide cutting blades;0.5mm thick (the Daimler Chrysler version) 1mm thick (the original Sikkens® version) 2mm […]
Following 2 years of internal development and closely monitored field trails on a number of chambers delivered to customers, we are pleased to announce that all Ascott chambers will now be fitted with our new clear air saturator. The new air saturator provides a number of key advantages; . . Instant ability to visually confirm […]
Ascott exhibited once again at the Indian Automotive Testing Expo held in Chennai from January 10th – 12th at the Chennai Trade Centre. The number of quality of visitors to the show could not have been better. Exhibiting an S450iP at the show, Unitron, Ascott’s long standing distributor in India, received enquiries from many International […]
After winning the Made in the Midlands Export Award and Midlands Region Export Award from the EEF (The Manufacturers Organisation) in 2017, Ascott has started 2018 by beating other Regional winners to win our first National Award for Export, from the EEF. The Award was presented to Ascott by the Department for International Trade at […]
Earlier this year Ascott was lucky enough to win an Export Award from the Made in the Midlands Group. Following on from this we participated in the Future Manufacturing Awards with an organisation called the EEF (The Manufacturers Organisation). At the award ceremony on Friday 10th November Ascott was announced as the winner for the […]
In recent years the automotive industry has been faced with many technical challenges in attempting to comply with a series of industrial norms. One of the most important of these norms is LV 124, which was jointly developed by a group of German automobile manufacturers; Daimler Benz, Audi, BMW, Volkswagen, and Porsche. Most of these […]
From September 19th – 21st Ascott Analytical, in conjunction with Shanghai Maoshan, distributor for the Chinese market, exhibited at the Auto Test Expo at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre. The stand was very busy and visitors to the exhibition, mostly from China, represented a number of leading automotive organisations […]
Many Ascott chamber customers regularly (or constantly) undertake tests on very small components, which can be a challenge to contain within the chamber. Frequently the only way to hold these samples is for the customer to create a holder themselves, or for very small specimens they sometimes have to use string to suspend the samples […]
Millbrook Proving Ground in the UK is Europe’s leading location for the development, test and demonstration of every type of land vehicle, with 400 employees based on a 665-acre site offering extensive test facilities including 45 miles of on and off road test tracks. Modelled on the Milford Proving Ground, in Michigan, USA, the site […]
Ascott are pleased to announce that all 6 models of the Atmosfär range of corrosion test chambers (including the AtmosfärLite) have been given official approval by Scania. There are only two manufacturers of corrosion test equipment that have approval from Scania to test to STD4319 and STD4445.