Plastic products are applied in various areas of daily life as packaging materials, household goods or textile fibres. However, plastics are also widely used in the building sector as flooring, pipes, thermal insulation or roofing membranes. Plastics have also become indispensable in automobile and aircraft construction, electrical and medical engineering, the developing of alternative energy sources such as wind turbines or geothermal probes as well as in the sports and leisure sector.​

The various applications place different requirements on the quality of the products. Owing to its comprehensive technical equipment and its experienced staff, the SKZ testing laboratory is in a position to test the quality and serviceability of a variety of products from many different applications.