H.P White Laboratory Opens Environmental Test Facility For Personal, Vehicular Armor
Street, Md.-based H.P White Laboratory Inc. — an independent test laboratory for ballistics and
ballistics resistance — has opened Cooper Main, a new facility that offers cost- and time-efficient
and comprehensive environmental conditioning and ballistics resistance testing of personal and
vehicular armor. The testing is required by standards and regulations, including the National
Institute of Justice (NIJ), U.S. military standards (MIL STDs), Underwriters Laboratory (UL) 752,
NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG), military hard and soft body armor standards, and other
domestic and foreign protocols. Armor packages can be validated for research and development,
certification and acceptance testing.
The laboratory houses four environmental conditioning chambers capable of achieving temperature ranges from -75ºC to 150ºC and humidity ranges from 10 to 98 percent for hard and soft armor samples up to 39.4 inches by 35.5 inches by 39.4 inches. The facility also offers a 575-square-foot sample storage room maintained at between 25ºC and 20 to 50 percent humidity for compliant storage of samples awaiting testing. H.P. White is accredited by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) to the NIJ 0101.06, Sec.5 Flexible Armor Conditioning Protocol as part of the lab's ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Scope of Accreditation (NVLAP Lab Code: 200825-0).
The facility has been named Cooper Main in honor of Lois Cooper, who has worked at H.P. White for 53 years and is the company's longest-standing employee.
"Lois Cooper's strength and longevity are hallmarks that underscore the H.P. White brand," said Mike Parker, president, H.P. White Laboratory. "Over five decades Cooper demonstrated uncommon loyalty and adaptability to best serve customers' needs and the lab's."
May 24, 2011
The laboratory houses four environmental conditioning chambers capable of achieving temperature ranges from -75ºC to 150ºC and humidity ranges from 10 to 98 percent for hard and soft armor samples up to 39.4 inches by 35.5 inches by 39.4 inches. The facility also offers a 575-square-foot sample storage room maintained at between 25ºC and 20 to 50 percent humidity for compliant storage of samples awaiting testing. H.P. White is accredited by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) to the NIJ 0101.06, Sec.5 Flexible Armor Conditioning Protocol as part of the lab's ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Scope of Accreditation (NVLAP Lab Code: 200825-0).
The facility has been named Cooper Main in honor of Lois Cooper, who has worked at H.P. White for 53 years and is the company's longest-standing employee.
"Lois Cooper's strength and longevity are hallmarks that underscore the H.P. White brand," said Mike Parker, president, H.P. White Laboratory. "Over five decades Cooper demonstrated uncommon loyalty and adaptability to best serve customers' needs and the lab's."
May 24, 2011
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