Liberty House, the British metals and manufacturing business, has established a UKAS-accredited-materials testing facility at Willenhall.

Manufacturers around the country will now be able to benefit from the range of expertise at Liberty Testing Technologies (LTT), which draws upon decades of technical experience from within Liberty’s network of manufacturing and engineering enterprises (www.libertyhousegroup.com).

The new facility will provide hardness, impact, tensile and chemical testing services to a wide range of customers serving sectors that include oil and gas, aerospace, automotive, construction, marine, yellow goods and metals.

It will also provide services such as collections and next-day certification in order to fast-track quality assurance processes, and there are plans to add a specialist metallurgical testing laboratory next year.

Douglas Dawson, chief executive officer of Liberty Industries Group, said: “Our business has a significant and growing product and service offering to customers that manufacture safety- and performance-critical products.

“It’s natural therefore that we should use our knowledge and experience to expand the scope of what we provide to the market.

“We have a significant amount of testing expertise that we already use to support our own metals and engineering companies in the Liberty group, so we are now making this high-calibre service available more widely across industry.”

Liberty House has been one of the UK’s fastest-growing metals and industrial businesses over the past two years; it now employs over 5,500 people at around 30 sites nationwide.