Testing labs in Piacenza

Agrosistemi Srl a Socio Unico is an Italian environmental services and laboratory analysis company headquartered in Piacenza, Italy, with more than twenty years of experience in the treatment and recovery of biological sludge originating from municipal wastewater purification plants. The company offers a fully integrated approach to sludge management — encompassing physical and chemical treatment, quality-control laboratory analysis, logistics, and administrative management of all regulatory documentation — making it a single-point partner for wastewater utilities and industrial operators throughout Italy. Agrosistemi operates two active treatment plants: its principal installation at Loc. Ca' Morta in Piacenza and a second facility at Via delle Aie, Savio di Cervia, in the Ravenna province. At the heart of Agrosistemi's operations is a proprietary sludge-treatment platform that converts biological waste into compliant organic fertilizer products. The company produces four categories of output: Biosolfato (Biosulfate) and Mild Wet Oxidation products derived from sludge classified as waste, and No More Sludge and Fertilizzante EU (EU Fertilizer) from sludge that exits the waste classification. These products are manufactured under strict quality controls and intended for agricultural soil amendment applications. Agrosistemi also maintains an active research and development programme backed by multiple proprietary patents, with emerging technologies under investigation including Hydro Thermal Dewatering, Hydro Thermal Liquefaction, and advanced metals-removal processes — reflecting a sustained commitment to innovation in environmental biotechnology. Agrosistemi's in-house quality-control laboratory has been accredited by ACCREDIA (Italy's National Accreditation Body) under accreditation number 1734 L since November 2018, in conformity with UNI EN ISO/IEC 17025. This accreditation confirms the laboratory's technical competence and management-system compliance across its defined scope of testing activities. Additionally, the laboratory holds official recognition from MIPAF (Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali — Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies) as authorized laboratory number 80 for fertilizer analysis, enabling it to issue analytical reports carrying full legal validity in Italian regulatory proceedings. Quality assurance practices include systematic participation in interlaboratory proficiency circuits, use of certified reference materials, and routine analysis of internal control samples against validated acceptance criteria. The laboratory performs testing across a broad range of environmental and agro-industrial matrices. For soils and land, it provides control services covering both reclamation (remediation compliance) and agronomic aspects of sludge and compost land-spreading, determining all parameters required by current Italian and EU legislation. Organic waste, digestate, fertilizers, and soil improvers undergo the full suite of chemical and physical analyses mandated by applicable authorizations and EU regulations. Wastewater and groundwater are tested for microbiological compliance parameters, while sewage sludge testing addresses the chemical, physical, and microbiological requirements of Italian law and European directives including Directive 86/278/EEC — which explicitly prescribes monitoring of heavy metals such as cadmium, copper, nickel, lead, zinc, mercury, and chromium in sludge intended for agricultural use. Growing media (substrates) are evaluated for water retention curves and nitrogen immobilization (NDI). Waste characterization for the assignment of European Waste Catalogue (EER/CER) codes is also performed, supporting proper waste classification, disposal, and recovery routing. Among the specialized analyses offered, the laboratory provides detection and quantification of organic contaminants including pesticides, phytopharmaceuticals (plant-protection products), and PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) — priority pollutants in sludge-to-land applications under evolving EU regulatory scrutiny. Microbiological analyses cover pathogens and hygiene indicator organisms relevant to sludge and fertilizer safety. Additional capabilities include Legionella identification with serotyping in water matrices, biological stability measurement using OUR (Oxygen Uptake Rate) and BMP (Biochemical Methane Potential) assays for digestate and organic waste, and dynamic olfactometry for the quantitative assessment of odor emissions from treatment facilities. Analytical methods are drawn from recognized national and international bodies — UNI, EPA, ISO, and IRSA — and are applied alongside internally validated procedures, all operated within the ISO/IEC 17025 accredited quality framework. Agrosistemi primarily serves clients in the environmental and water-services sector — municipal wastewater treatment authorities, industrial wastewater operators, and biogas or digestate producers — as well as agricultural input manufacturers and distributors requiring certified fertilizer analysis. The company's work sits at the intersection of environmental compliance, circular economy, and agricultural productivity: by certifying that recovered organic materials meet the compositional, microbiological, and contaminant thresholds established by Italian and EU legislation, Agrosistemi enables the legally compliant and agronomically safe return of nutrient-rich materials to productive soils. Industry affiliations include membership in Assofertilizzanti (Italy's fertilizer industry association) and active regulatory engagement with ECHA (European Chemicals Agency). In January 2022, Agrosistemi was acquired by Sdiptech AB, a Swedish listed infrastructure technology group focused on sustainable essential services, providing the company with additional capital and group resources while preserving local operational expertise across its Piacenza and Ravenna sites. With over two decades of continuous operation, ACCREDIA ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation (number 1734 L), MIPAF ministerial recognition as an authorized fertilizer laboratory, and an active patent portfolio in sludge-processing innovation, Agrosistemi represents a technically credible and regulatory-grade analytical partner for organizations managing biological sludge treatment, organic waste recovery, fertilizer certification, or land-spreading authorization under Italian and European environmental law.

ISO/IEC 17025 accredited by ACCREDIA (No. 02253) testing laboratory (accreditation status: active). Accredited test areas include: Chemical Elemental Analysis. Located at 29122, Piacenza, Italy.

SIET S.p.A. — whose full registered name is Società Informazioni Esperienze Termoidrauliche S.p.A. — is an independent Italian testing, calibration, and certification laboratory headquartered at Via Nino Bixio 27/C in Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna. Founded in 1983, the company has accumulated more than four decades of specialised experience in thermo-fluid-dynamic and mechanical testing of components and systems destined for energy-production plants, industrial process installations, and fluid-distribution networks. SIET also serves as an accredited calibration centre (laboratorio metrologico) and operates as an accredited product and management-system Certification Body, making it a rare single-source partner for testing, measurement traceability, and third-party conformity assessment. Its international recognition — including inspections by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and collaborations with major global reactor developers — underlines its status as one of the world's most capable thermal-hydraulic experimental facilities. The core laboratory testing service at SIET covers a wide range of industrial components subjected to thermo-fluid-dynamic and mechanical qualification regimes. Components routinely tested include industrial valves (valvole industriali), hydraulic disconnectors (disconnettori idraulici), thermostatic valves (valvole termostatiche), shell-and-tube and helical-coil heat exchangers (scambiatori di calore), piping and fittings (tubazioni e raccordi), sealing devices (dispositivi di tenuta), and automotive components. For heat exchangers, SIET performs characteristic-curve testing covering head-to-flow-rate, power-to-flow-rate, and efficiency-to-flow-rate relationships across water/water, water/steam, air/water, and air/oil configurations. Tests are conducted under prototypic fluid temperatures, pressures, and flow rates, with data used to validate thermal-performance models and to support component qualification and certification programmes. The metrological and calibration division holds ACCREDIA accreditation (accreditation number 00124, scope LAT) under ISO/IEC 17025, providing traceable calibration services across a uniquely broad set of physical quantities: pressure, temperature, flow rate, dimensional quantities, electrical quantities, force and torque, mass, volume and density, acoustic noise, time, humidity, and velocity. The laboratory is listed in the Italian public-administration e-procurement portal (MePA), making its calibration services accessible to government and regulated-industry clients. For quantities beyond the core accredited scope, SIET additionally provides reference-traceable calibration services, ensuring that industrial customers can satisfy regulatory and quality-management requirements for their entire instrument fleet from a single supplier. SIET is widely recognised as a world leader in experimental research for the nuclear power sector. The company operates high-pressure, high-temperature experimental loops — referred to as simulatori di impianti nucleari — capable of replicating the thermohydraulic conditions inside light-water and advanced reactors. Specific research capabilities include steam-separator testing, passive safety-system verification (circuiti a circolazione naturale), jet-pump performance mapping, rod-bundle (fascio di barre) heat-transfer experiments, and water-purification (potabilizzatore d'acqua) system development. A landmark project was the full-scale testing of NuScale Power's helical coil steam generator (HCSG) at SIET's Piacenza facility, conducted at prototypic operating conditions to validate thermal-performance codes and assess flow-induced vibration behaviour. SIET has also carried out ENEA-commissioned passive-cooling system tests for advanced Generation III+ reactors, working alongside ENEA's Nuclear Safety and Sustainability Division and Politecnico di Milano. Beyond testing and calibration, SIET operates as a multi-scope Certification Body accredited by ACCREDIA under scheme PRD (product certification) and MS (management system certification). The certification division issues third-party product conformity certificates and management-system certificates, including in information-security management (ISO/IEC 27001) following a successful transition to the updated accreditation standard ISO/IEC 27006-1:2024. The combination of in-house test execution, traceable measurement, and independent certification under one roof allows SIET to support the full qualification lifecycle — from development prototype through regulatory submission — without requiring clients to engage multiple bodies. SIET's engineering and training division leverages the technical-scientific competencies built over decades of experimental work. Services include design and supply of custom experimental plant and didactic test benches (banchi di prova didattici), thermo-fluid-dynamic computational analysis (calcoli termofluidodinamici), measurement-uncertainty evaluation, instrumentation management, and technical training courses. These offerings allow industrial clients and academic institutions to commission bespoke experimental infrastructure or to outsource complex modelling tasks to SIET's engineering team, extending the lab's value well beyond conventional testing services. SIET holds ACCREDIA accreditation (number 00124) across four scopes — LAT (calibration), LAB (testing), PRD (product certification), and MS (management-system certification) — and is certified to ISO 9001 for its quality management system. The laboratory has undergone inspections by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, attesting to the rigour of its test protocols and data-quality practices in safety-critical applications. Ownership by Italian national bodies including ENEA (the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) further anchors SIET within the national and European energy-research ecosystem. With its combination of rare large-scale experimental loops, broad ACCREDIA accreditation, and more than 40 years of documented expertise, SIET S.p.A. represents a highly credible and technically authoritative testing partner for clients in the energy, industrial-process, nuclear, and advanced-engineering sectors.