Why Choose CONTROLS

10+ reasons to choose us

Committed to our Customers

We work in close partnership with our customers to understand their unique requirements. This helps us design and deliver specialist, innovative testing solutions that deliver the most accurate and reliable testing results possible.

Global Reach, Delivered Locally

With six international offices, a network of over 100 distributors, and a dedicated team of highly experienced product specialists, support is always close at hand. We have the global reach to give you access to the relevant technical expertise, pre-and post-sales technical support and training to ensure you get maximum lifetime value from your investment, wherever you are in the world.

A Flexible Approach

Our global scale means that we are able to support your every needs, from general product advice and supply of parts and consumables for small labs to the management of complex projects for large corporations, or government departments.

Integrity

We care about our people and customers and hold ourselves accountable to the highest ethical standards in everything we do. This principled approach guides all our activities and runs throughout our organization affecting everything we do.

Unrivalled Expertise

Our team of specialized product managers, technical sales and support engineers is the largest in the industry and is always close at hand to provide recommendations, pre-sales advice and post-sales technical support, whenever and wherever you need it.

Comprehensive Range

Our comprehensive range of over 4,000 construction materials testing products allows us to build specialized knowledge and deliver a high-value proposition to the testing systems market for aggregates, asphalt mixtures, bitumen and binders, concrete, cement, soils, rocks and structural steel.

Sharing Knowledge and Expertise

We love to share our knowledge and expertise when developing our latest testing equipment . We constantly publish blog articles, collaborate with specialized magazines and send regular email news updates with the latest industry developments to our customer community.

Forward Thinking & Innovation

We embrace innovation and invest in a robust policy of continuous research and product development. Coupled with our in-house Training Laboratory, our customers, distributors and staff all gain from these latest developments, innovations and know-how. The result is that all our customers benefit from the real lifetime value through owning one of our products.

Our Heritage Drives us Forward

Established in 1968, we have amassed over 50 years’ experience of innovation and technical leadership in civil engineering and construction materials testing. We apply this experience as we look to the future to anticipate trends and adapt our products to your needs with the aim of continuing to provide the highest value for our customers.

Quality Standards & Accreditation

ISO:9001 accredited and an active member of all the main international standard organizations, including ISO, EN, ASTM, AASHTO and AWRG, we are also involved in steering future Standards’ development so they are written with practical operation and application in mind for the benefit of the end-users.