Atlas Center of Excellence in Chicago, IL offers accelerated weathering featuring a variety of xenon, carbon arc, fluorescent and metal halide weathering instruments to meet most accelerated test methods from national and international standards organizations such as ISO, ASTM, SAE, GM, Ford, Chrysler, JIS, DIN, and others. In addition, the lab performs optical property and physical evaluations using the leading measurement instrumentation technology available, providing you with a complete testing program.

AWSG is ISO/IEC 17025 accredited and accredited or approved by Ford, General Motors and Dade County (FL).

Weathering Instrumentation at this lab includes:

• Ci5000 Xenon Weather-Ometer®
• Ci4000 Xenon Weather-Ometer®
• Ci3000+ Xenon Weather-Ometer®
• Ci65A Xenon Weather-Ometer®
• CDMC Enclosed Carbon Arc Weather-Ometer®
• CXWA Sunshine Carbon Arc Weather-Ometer®
• UVTest
• UV2000 UV/Condensation Device
• UVCON
• SUNTEST CPS+
• SUNTEST XLS+
• XENOTEST® ALPHA HE & LM
• XENOTEST® BETA LM

Atlas' test capabilities in the field of environmental testing include Temperature/Humidity Cycling, High Temperature, Low Temperature, and Temperature Shock conducted in accordance with the appropriate MIL-STD specifications. Temperature/Humidity Testing (MIL-STD-810D, 202D, etc.) Number of Chambers: 2 Volume: 1.7 m3 (64 ft3) Interior Dimensions: 1.2 x 1.2 x 1.2 m (4 x 4 x 4 ft) Temperature Range: -73