Laboratory TNO Automotive (Helmond - The Netherlands)

Early in 2008 TNO (the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) completed the relocation of its Automotive business unit from Delft to Helmond. In addition to the existing VEHIL hall, built in 2003, a new hall was built with an Engine Emissions Laboratory and a 160-metre long full-scale collision track. In addition to doors for this new hall, Merford also supplied partition walls, staff/workshop cubicles and test cubicles.

The TNO Automotive emissions laboratory has six testing areas where engines, transmission systems and electric hybrid systems can be tested. The doors and windows of these laboratories must therefore be sound-insulating and fire-resistant. Merford supplied sound-insulating, fire-resistant doors and windows for these laboratories, the latter also having bullet-proof properties. Merford also supplied transformer doors for the transformer rooms and doors for the fire-resistant partition walls in the plant rooms and along the collision track.