美国Q-Lab      
Q-Lab公司，成立于1956年，是一家全球性的材料耐久性测试产品供应商。我们生产标准测试底板，以及耐候仪、耐晒仪和盐雾箱。另外，在Q-Lab佛罗里达和Q-Lab亚利桑那的测试服务中心提供实验室加速测试和户外暴露测试服务，测试材料的耐候性、耐光性及耐腐蚀性。

我们的测试设备和服务，适用于涂料、塑料、汽车、个人护理用品、屋面材料、油墨、纺织品、药品、包装材料和密封剂等行业。

我们公司总部和制造厂位于美国俄亥俄州克里夫兰市的Westlake地区。Q-Lab在英国曼彻斯特和中国上海设有分部。

Q-Lab 老化测试研究服务中心，是 Q-Lab公司的一个分支机构，分别位落于佛罗里达州南部和亚利桑纳州沙漠地区。Q-Lab 是一家合同式测试服务中心，提供实验室加速测试和户外暴露测试服务，测试材料的耐候性、耐光性及耐腐蚀性。

公司发展历程

公司创始人 乔治·格罗斯曼 (George Grossman)

一位年轻的乔治·格罗斯曼美国飞行员退役后，开始在俄亥俄州克里夫兰地区向油漆实验室销售原料和设备作为其新的职业生涯。无论走到哪里，乔治总是习惯性地询问他的客户，“您有哪些需求无法从目前的供应商那里得到吗？”许多客户告诉乔治，他们需要一种性能一致的测试底板。他们想确信，如果某种涂料在实验中失败，其原因在于涂料本身而不是由于底板被污染所致。 于是，乔治于1956年创建Q-Panel 公司以填补这项行业需求。当乔治·格罗斯曼设计其第一块测试板时，他想找到一种方法，即能够在其产品上加上一个标识，而这个标识不会因实验过程中技术人员向面板喷涂油漆而被遮盖。他决定采用一个形状为字母 Q 的孔。同时，也代表了乔治对其底板所提供的高品质、快速服务的期望。 2006年,Q-Panel实验室产品公司更名为Q-Lab公司，以体现其更广范围的产品和服务领域。

Q-Lab Corporation is a global provider of material durability testing products since 1956. We design and manufacture standard test substrates as well as weathering, light stability, and corrosion testers. In addition, contract test service which includes laboratory simulations and outdoor exposures for weathering, lightfastness and corrosion testing are available at Q-Lab Florida and Q-Lab Arizona.
Our products and services are used to test coatings, plastics, automotive, personal care, roofing, inks, textiles, pharmaceutical, packaging and sealants.

Our corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities are located in Westlake, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Q-Lab sales and distribution facilities are located in Manchester, England and Shanghai, China.

Q-Lab Weathering Research Service, a division of Q-Lab Corporation, has locations in southern Florida and the Arizona desert. Q-Lab is a contract test service which includes laboratory simulations and outdoor exposures for weathering, lightfastness and corrosion testing.

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Corporate History

George Grossman, Founder
A young pilot in the US Air Corps returned to civilian life after serving his country. His name was George Grossman, and he began a new career selling supplies and equipment to paint labs in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Wherever he went, George made it a practice to ask his customers, “What do you need that you can’t get from your current suppliers?” Many customers told George that they needed a consistent, reproducible test surface. They wanted to make sure that if a coating failed during testing, it was because of a bad paint and not because of a contaminated substrate.

George founded Q-Panel in 1956 to fulfill this industry need. When designing the first test panels, George was looking for a way to place a logo on his product that would not be obscured when the lab technicians sprayed the panels with paint. He decided that a “Q” shaped hole would do the trick. Plus, it would represent the quality and quick delivery that George wanted for his panels.

In 2006, Q-Panel Lab Products changed its name to Q-Lab Corporation to reflect the wide range of instruments and services it provides, and the industries it serves.