Welcome to Design Environmental

Founded in 1985 and originally based in Kent, Design Environmental is well established as a leading designer and manufacturer of environmental and climatic test chambers. Most of our customers are based in the UK with an ever growing number overseas and we count among them many major international companies in the aerospace, automotive and electronics sectors. We have also become a major supplier in the educational research field and have supplied many Universities and institutions.

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In April 1989 the business was relocated to Ebbw Vale in South Wales to meet the expansion plans for the company by taking advantage of the excellent infrastructure and road networks and a readily available and skilled workforce.

In 1998 Design Environmental became part of the German Schunk group that also owns the Weiss and Votsch companies and thereby became part of the largest group of environmental test equipment manufacturers in Europe. The new ownership enabled DEL to move forward and bought additional financial security and engineering knowledge.

Since 1998 the company has gone from strength to strength with yearly steady growth and in 2007 the company expanded into an adjoining factory unit to double the available production space to 3,000 square metres. This expansion has accommodated the increased turnover and enabled the manufacture of larger projects and also provided additional production space for a long term group contract.

We have a full design and manufacture capability at our South Wales factory and we operate under an ISO 9001:2008 quality management system and provide calibration of temperature and humidity traceable to UKAS.

Design Environmental is a specialist company in the service, manufacture and design of temperature and humidity test chambers. We have a comprehensive range of standard chambers to accommodate a wide variety of testing requirements but our main production is dedicated to affordable customised designs based on customer’s specific needs. This can include high performance in the form of rapid temperature cycling with specific test loads or special work space dimensions for those not so easily accommodated test items.

Our chambers can be supplied to carry out many testing requirements including Environmental Stress Screening, Halt Hass, Reliability, and long term storage and will perform the majority of tests required by MIL and ISO standards etc.

We have a good reputation for interfacing our test chambers with all types of vibration generators in both the vertical and horizontal axis and can offer turnkey solutions if required. Our chambers can also be interfaced with various types of materials test machines.

Products & Services

• Temperature Test Chambers
From bench top models to walk in or drive in rooms. Temperature ranges from -70°C to +200°C. Rates of temperature change vary from standard models at typically 2-3°C/min to customised chambers offering up to 20°C/min with specific test load. Compressor cooled with integral or remote refrigeration plant along with liquid Nitrogen cooled versions are available.

• Environmental Test Chambers
Environmental test chambers or climatic test chambers include the same range of sizes as temperature test chambers with the added ability to control humidity levels from 5%rh up 98%RH.

• Hypoxic Sports Science Rooms
Sports Science rooms provide temperature and humidity control for sea level training and performance studies. They can also be supplied to combine climatic control with a hypoxic environment by controlling the Oxygen content to simulate altitude for human performance studies and altitude acclimatisation.

• HALT HASS Test Chambers
Sigma and Xess range of HALT HASS chambers provide rapid temperature cycling and can be combined with a simultaneous multi axis (six degree of freedom) random vibration table providing high acceleration levels of broadband random vibration up to 100grms with an unequalled energy distribution in the X, Y and Z axes. Temperature ranges from +200°C to -100° with liquid Nitrogen cooling combined with temperature rates of change up to 100°C/min.

• Drystor Low Humidity Storage Cabinets
Drystor cabinets provide low humidity storage for SMD’s or any moisture sensitive component requiring short or long term protection against atmospheric moisture ingress. Low humidity conditions are maintained either by dry air purge for short term storage or by Nitrogen gas purge for longer storage needs. Temperature control is also available.

• Preventative Maintenance & Calibration
Our fully trained and accredited in house and field based team of service engineers provide preventative maintenance, breakdown or calibration services traceable to UKAS for our own or any manufacture of temperature test chamber or environmental test chamber.

• Chamber Hire
We usually have a number of temperature test chambers and climatic test chambers available for monthly hire.

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