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IKATES Company, Ltd. was established in year 1996 by specialists with long experience in field of testing and assessment of glasses. Company worked initially as the testing laboratory for glass and building products, and later expanded its services on the certification of glass and chemical analyzes.

Subject of activities is also cooperation in the normalization, expertise assessment, auditing of quality management systems in the glass industry, lecturing. Company IKATES focuses on the security parameters of the glass products, health harmless of the beverage glass, chemical analyzes of silicates, raw glass and wastewater.

It tests and assesses the conformity of fire resistant glass, thermally toughened glass, laminated glass, insulating glass units, curved glass, matt-glass, glass blocks and pavers, mirrors, etc., performs analysis of raw materials for glass industry, raw glass and finished glass products. It tests glass for automotive industry, glass with applied films, special products, railing glass infills, glass fibre products, but also glasses, cups, vases, bowls and plates.

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Authorised Body / Notified Body 

The company IKATES is in the field of building products conformity assessment authorized in the Czech national system as Authorised Body No. 225. It does the conformity assessment of glass building products acc. to the Decreee of Gov. No. 163/2002 Coll. as amended. IKATES, s.r.o. is also Notified Body No. 1394 for evaluation of conformity acc. to Regulation  of the European Parliament and of the Council No.305/2011 (Construction Products Regulation - CPR).  more ...


 

Certification Body
Certification Body does the characteristics assessment of many different types of glass, e.g. bullet resistance, resistance to manual attack, pendulum impact resistance etc. It certifyies also the beverage and utility glass acc. to number of Czech and International standards, incl. the requirements of Decree No. 38/2001 Coll.  more ...

 

Testing laboratory - physical and mechanical properties
In the laboratory are tested glasses, glass building products and other materials replacing the glass. Laboratory tests basic soda lime silicate glass products (float glass, patterned glass, drawn shhet glass, channel shaped glass), coated glass, curved glass, toughened and laminated safety glass, heat-strengthened glass, filmed glass, acid-etched and sand-blasted glass, drilled and grounded glass and also insulating glass units, mirrors, glass blocks and pavers, mats and plates from glass fibres, plastic sheets etc. It tests also the glass bottles and beverage glass.
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Analytical Laboratory
Analytical Laboratory does chemical analysis of silicates, i.e., glass, glass ceramics, raw materials, analysis of surface and waste water, incl. of sampling. The tests aree carried out using of modern method, e.g. WDXRF, AAS and other procedures  more ...


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