ExVA Testing and Certification Ltd. specialises in the safety of hazardous work areas. We create the conditions for reassured work through testing and certification. Owing to its broad spectrum of services, ExVA Testing & Certification has the capacity to provide assistance to every industrial sector where safe work is an important consideration.

ExVA is an accredited certification body that holds certificates recognised in Hungary, Europe, as well as globally. Product testing and certification is performed on an area that is subject to legal regulation, at a high standard, and with focus on our customers’ needs.

Our company mission is to make this world a safer place!

The issuing of ATEX, IECEx, fire-prevention certification, repair workshop auditing, expert services, revision, ex-proof documentation, zone classification, professional consulting, expert opinions, HAZOP studies are all services for which ExVA will be the best specialist you will find.

Our services are offered to all industries that use, produce or supply flammable or explosive materials.

ExVA is unique in being the only firm in Hungary that can provide conformity assessments subject to accredited status and using its own accredited test laboratory. Thanks to its well-equipped laboratory, calibrated instruments and apparatuses, as well as its recognised team of specialists, the company has the capacity to substantiate all certifications it issues through precise, fast and efficient testing. More than 150 types of tests can be carried out in its lab.

It also manufactures testing equipment that is mainly offered on foreign markets – making it a global one-of-a-kind.

Our testing equipment offering is intended to allow users to screen out any arising defects as early as in the design phase, and includes a spark test apparatus, digital precision gas mixers, a minimum safe gap testing rig and other custom testing equipment designed by ExVA.

Thanks to our highly-trained specialists with multiple years of experience, the company can provide the best to its partners, whether we’re looking at power plants, gas storage facilities, the chemical and food industry, oil refinery, bulk loading facilities, the paper and metal industry or other industrial sectors affected by the use of explosion-proof equipment.

ExVA Testing & Certification Ltd. was formerly known as ExVÁ Robbanásbiztos Berendezések Vizsgáló Állomása (‘Explosion-proof Equipment Testing Station’) Kft. The company’s predecessor was established by the Hungarian State’s Ministry of Heavy Industry, and it engaged in the testing and certification of firedamp and explosion-proof electrical installations from 1960. The Testing Station was restructured from 1978, and by splitting from the Central Mining Development Institute, ExVÁ Kft., the testing station for explosion-proof electrical installations, was established as a stand-alone company on 15 March 1994. In 1999, it was already manufacturing a spark test apparatus for testing stations abroad.

The company’s progress involved dynamic steps: In 2000, ExVÁ Kft. became a designated member of the international IECEx organisation (International Electrotechnical Commission System for Certification to Standards Relating to Equipment for Use in Explosive Atmospheres, IECEx System), and in 2003, the company became an ATEX-accredited testing and certification body. Testing and certification was performed on the basis of Minister of Economic Affairs Decree 8/2002 (Feb 16) GM and the 94/9/EC Directive. Through Hungary’s accession to the European Union, ExVÁ Kft. has been a notified body, number 1418, since 2004.

In 2005, the company acquired designation for issuing Fire-Prevention Compliance Certificates, and in 2014, it enhanced its spark test apparatus.

On 27 September 2017, ExVÁ Kft. received a new ATEX designation. At that time, it was already pursuing its activities on the basis of the 2014/34/EU Directive and Minister for National Economy Decree 35/2016 (27 Sep) NGM, as an EU Notified Body.

Over the years, ExVA has proven its indispensable role on the Hungarian and foreign markets alike. The company looks back on 70 years of professional experience. It has issued close to 6,000 certifications over the years, making a name recognised across four continents for itself, and consistently achieving top 5 ranking at international proficiency audits.

ExVA has won the right to use the Y2020 Value and Quality Grand Prize certification mark and the distinction title that goes with it for each of two of its products – the spark test apparatus and the digital precision gas mixer.

Its partners can be confident in their choice of ExVA Kft, because ExVA sees the solution where others see a problem.

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