Material Testing & Lab Partners

Why Partner With Covalent

More than 1,500 manufacturers, OEMs, and R&D teams worldwide partner with Covalent to solve complex material testing and engineering challenges. Every project is driven by clear data, documented methods, and results that withstand technical and regulatory scrutiny.

Our 30,000 ft² laboratory contains over 75 instruments valued at more than $25M. This equipment covers advanced imaging, compositional analysis, mechanical testing, and failure investigation across metals, polymers, ceramics, and coatings.

The work is led by scientists with advanced technical training. Seventy percent hold PhDs or equivalent degrees, ensuring that results are precise and interpreted in the context of material performance.

Covalent is accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 across more than 60 standardized and proprietary methods. This accreditation confirms that our testing meets international benchmarks for quality, repeatability, and defensibility.

When you partner with Covalent, you gain reliable data, expert interpretation, and a laboratory equipped to support decisions that affect design, safety, and long-term performance.

Lab Partners

Rigaku

Since its inception in 1951, Rigaku has been at the forefront of analytical and industrial instrumentation technology. Today, with hundreds of major innovations to their credit, the Rigaku group of companies are world leaders in the fields of general X-ray diffraction, thin film analysis, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, small angle X-ray scattering, protein and small molecule X-ray crystallography, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray optics, semiconductor metrology, X-ray sources, computed tomography, nondestructive testing and thermal analysis.

JEOL

Since 1949, the JEOL legacy has been one of outstanding innovation in developing instruments used to advance scientific research and technology. JEOL has more than 70 years of expertise in the field of electron microscopy, more than 60 years in mass spectrometry and NMR spectrometry, and more than 50 years of e-beam lithography leadership.

HORIBA

HORIBA Scientific is a world leader in scientific instrumentation with over 200 years of experience developing analytical platforms for life sciences and material sciences.

TORAY Research Center

Covalent deepens our advanced scientific and engineering consulting services to create new materials, new functions, new products, and new processes in our partnership with Toray Research Center. For North American customers, this uniquely opens access to this world class resource of expertise and analytical technology. By working with Covalent, customers have a convenient channel to setup and manage their projects, leveraging the full range of capabilities at Covalent and Toray Research Center.

J.A.Woolam

J.A. Woollam has been the leading manufacturer of spectroscopic ellipsometers for more than 30 years. The company is based in Lincoln, NE, and uses Covalent’s Silicon Valley facility for training and demonstrations on the West Coast. The two parties leverage their respective strengths collaboratively to provide convenient access to world-class instrumentation and expert optical modeling in the heart of a leading US technological hub. J.A. Woollam and Covalent Metrology Services have announced a partnership to promote and further advance spectroscopic ellipsometry technology, a powerful analytical technique used to characterize advanced materials and thin films optically.

Teledyne CETAC

Teledyne CETAC is a global leader in the development of advanced sample-introduction and sample-handling equipment for elemental analysis. Their portfolio of spectroscopy and automation tools are widely used to rapidly trace elements and accurately quantify their concentrations.

Thermo Fisher

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue over $40 billion. Its Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, Thermo Fisher Scientific is committed to supporting them.

Digital Surf

Digital Surf is the editor of Mountains® surface metrology and image analysis software for profilers and microscopes, integrated by 50+ leading instrument manufacturers worldwide and trusted by 20,000+ microscopy and metrology professionals.

Anton Paar

Anton Paar develops, produces, and distributes highly accurate laboratory instruments and process measuring systems and provides custom-tailored automation and robotic solutions. It is the world leader in the measurement of density, concentration, and CO2 and in the field of rheometry.

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