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Internal Laboratory for Quality Control of Plywood Boards

Transparency of Procedures

Panguaneta LaboratoryThe Panguaneta Laboratory determines all necessary control measures for monitoring the validity of tests and/or calibrations carried out.  The resulting data is recorded in such a way as to facilitate the detection of any eventual tendencies corresponding to the samples.  In some cases, technical statistics have been applied to be able to understand the results more competently.  It is for these reasons that Panguaneta Laboratory considers the internal laboratory as one of the instruments that effectively determines quality control.

Quality Systems

The activities of the laboratory is an integral part of the quality control manual, in particular, that related to the planning, interpretation and evaluation, corrective actions, documentation and recording of results.  The laboratory constitutes an important data bank for the company.

Scientific Prestige

The Panguaneta Laboratory is renowned internationally: for several years now, it has been involved in research and benchmarking conducted simultaneously in laboratories found all over the European Union; it collaborates with prestigious research institutes with the same areas of certifications as those possessed by Panguaneta ,like the French institute FCBA (www.fcba.fr), the German institute WKI FRAUNHOFER (www.wki.fraunhofer.de) and Italian institutes like CATAS (www.catas.it) and CRA (www.populus.it). It also keeps constant contact with the entire academic reference system by transmitting results, reference evaluations, criteria for evaluation and any eventual corrective actions to be taken.

Reliability of the Data

The quality of the results obtained is therefore guaranteed by the scientific planning of tests and verification procedures on the integrity of the results obtained. To summarize:

  • Regular use of materials of reference;
  • Inter-laboratory comparisons;
  • Repetitions of the tests, double tests;
  • Correlation of different results.