Our Quality Excellence
Beck Industries understand that our customers operate in demanding environments where the quality and performance of the products and materials used is safety critical. For that reason, we place tremendous importance on ensuring that our products and services can stand up to these challenges.
We offer high quality as standard for both our products and services. With full in-house testing equipment and robust inspection procedures, we can ensure our components are manufactured to the highest industry standards at our COFRAC (French) & UKAS (UK) accredited laboratories. We offer 3.1 certification as standard and 3.2 certification on request.
Where applicable, all items are manufactured using our custom-made process control software, which is maintained by our material certification to BS EN 10204 3.1 and quality approved in conformance with ISO 9001:2015.
UKAS accredited test methods
- Tensile test (ASTM)
- Charpy impact
- Rockwell
- Micro Vickers
- Knoop hardness
- Inclusion content
- Decarburisation / carburisation
- Macro etch and evaluation
- Assessment of banding
- Destructive tests carried out internally
- Mechanical tests at room temperature (traction, impact)
- Cold toughness down to -101 ° C
- Hot traction
- Test load on nuts
- Proof load on studs (max diameter M100 in Class 10.9 x 2000 mm)
- Salt spray
- Micrography and macrography
- Micrographs under black light
- Micro-hardness low pressure Vickers and Knoop
Non destructive methods
- Magnetoscopy
- Ultra sonic
- PT, fluorescent PT
- Eddy current
- Spectrography
- Torque control
ISO 17025 laboratory tests carried out, not accredited by UKAS:
- Tensile test (ISO)
- Wedge
- Proof load
- Breaking torque
- Coating thickness
Our accreditations
In the relentless pursuit of uncompromising product quality and service, we are one of the few fastener manufacturers to be successfully accredited to the API standard and at two separate sites as well:
Beck Crespel API 20E (BSL 1, 2 and 3) and 20F (BSL 2 and 3) Certificate number 20-0048 and 20-0020
and
Beck Prosper API Q1, 20E (BSL 1 and 2) and API 20F (BSL 2 and 3), registration number Q1-3317.
Demonstrating our continued commitment to the environment and the safety of our people, we also hold certifications in ISO 9001-2015, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001.
Providing quality processes throughout our company