How it works
Four steps from a standard code to a signed report.
You keep one account. Every lab you work with reviews your requests in their own system and issues reports back into yours — so a company testing at five laboratories has one place to look rather than five.
Search a standard
Type the code you need to test against. Results are labs whose accredited scope covers it — not labs that merely mention it.
Compare on accreditation
Each lab shows its body, certificate number and validity, and whether your test is inside the accredited scope or simply offered.
Send a request
Describe your samples, pick the standard for each, attach drawings. The lab reviews it — nothing is accepted automatically.
Track and download
Watch tests complete, then download the issued report with its report and ULR numbers when the lab releases it.
What it costs you
Zymiq is free. You pay the laboratory, not us.
Accreditation is public information and this directory treats it that way. Searching, sending requests, tracking the work and downloading your reports all cost nothing — the only invoice is the laboratory's, for the testing it does.
Without an account
Search every published laboratory, read its accredited scope, check its certificate against the issuing body, and send an enquiry to a listing that takes them.
With an account — still free
Send sample requests to laboratories on Zymiq, answer their questions in one thread, track tests as they complete, and download every issued report from one place.
Finding the right laboratory
Search the accredited scope, not the company name.
A laboratory’s name tells you nothing about what it can test. Its accredited scope tells you everything — and it is the scope this register is built on.
Search by standard code
Paste the code off your specification — IS 1599, ASTM A370, ISO 6506-1 — and the register returns the laboratories accredited to it. This is the most exact question you can ask, because a standard names a method rather than a subject area.
Search by test method or material
Tensile strength, conductor resistance, water absorption, proximate analysis. Or by what you are holding — coal, stainless steel, cables, drinking water. The search reads the published scope, so it answers “who can test this” rather than “who is called this”.
Browse by category or country
When you have no vocabulary for the test yet, start from the discipline — mechanical properties of metals, solid fuels, cables and wires — or from where you need the work done. Every category page carries the laboratories accredited in it with their certificate numbers on the card.
Check before you send
Certificate current, test named in the scope, range covering your material. Each is on the laboratory’s page, and each links back to the accreditation body’s own register entry so you can confirm it at the source rather than take ours.
Working with a laboratory
One thread, from the first question to the issued report.
What happens between sending a request and downloading a report is mostly conversation — and it is conversation that usually happens across email, phone calls and attachments nobody can find six months later.
The request is a proposal
You describe the work: the specimens, the standard each is to be tested against, the date you need it, and anything the laboratory should know about the material. It reviews that and accepts, asks a question, or declines with a reason. Nothing is committed until it accepts.
The quote is part of the same thread
An amount, a turnaround and a date the offer stands until. Accept it and the work begins; decline it and the laboratory can revise. Your contact details reach them when you accept and not before.
Receipt and acceptance are different moments
Samples arriving is not the same as samples being fit to test, and a laboratory records the two separately because ISO/IEC 17025 asks it to. Both timestamps appear on your job, which answers the question somebody who couriered four drums across a country is actually asking.
Reports arrive per specimen
A job with four specimens finishes one at a time. Each report appears against the job it came from as it is issued, rather than everything landing at the end, so you can act on the first result while the fourth is still on the bench.
Questions
Working with laboratories, in plain terms.
- Do I need an account to find a laboratory?
- No. Every listing, its accredited scope, its certificate numbers and its validity dates are public and readable without signing in. An account exists for the half that is yours: the requests you send and the reports that come back.
- What is a test request form?
- The document a laboratory works from: what you are sending, how many specimens, which standard each is to be tested against, when you need it, and anything they should know about the material. On Zymiq you fill one in once and the receiving laboratory reviews it in their own system.
- Can I send one request to several laboratories?
- Each request goes to one laboratory, because each is an offer that laboratory reviews and prices. You can send as many as you like from one account, and every one of them appears in the same list with its own status and its own thread.
- How long does testing take?
- The laboratory sets the turnaround when it accepts, because only it knows its queue, its instrument availability and the method. What Zymiq gives you is the date it committed to and the progress against it, rather than a number this site invented.
- What happens to my samples?
- The laboratory records receipt and acceptance separately — arrived is not the same as fit to test — and both timestamps are on your job. What it does internally afterwards is its own ISO/IEC 17025 record of custody, storage and disposal, kept for the auditor rather than published to you.
- Who can see my requests?
- You and the laboratory you sent them to. A request is not visible to another laboratory, to another company on Zymiq, or to anybody browsing the directory.
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