About
Industry Leader
Wilger Testing Company is the industry leader in producing fast, thorough, and technically sound NRTL listings for our clients. We have spearheaded more projects of new technologies than any other firm, including HID lamp Igniters, lampholders and electrical bases for illuminating sources, electronic ballasts, thermoplastic housings and components, emergency lighting equipment, thermoplastic lampholders, UV-protected outdoor lenses and refractors, variable overload sensing circuits, tritium exit fixtures, and other products that incorporate new and/or unusual technologies not anticipated in published safety standards.
Additionally, we represent clients to CSA, ETL, UL, and other safety compliance organizations internationally while protecting their interest in getting their products marketed faster without creating technical and/or performance delays, product failures, or technical barriers to NRTL or CB approval.
Professional Personnel
Our seasoned staff has the necessary experience and technical qualifications to make your road to product safety compliance fast, accurate, and complete. They participate in the ANSI standard-making process for all relevant electrical and lighting standards, sharing their expertise to help make safety standards relevant, less ambiguous, and anti-business.
We also participate in the UL Preferred Partner program, where our staff has been duly qualified and audited by UL engineers in the electrical and lighting categories. In addition, we have two resident engineers who hold the Lighting Certified professional credentials awarded by the National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions, furthering our commitment to excellence in the lighting industry.
Product Safety Testing Concerns
While uncompromisingly the leader in servicing the lighting and other electrical industries and maintaining an extremely high level of proficiency, Wilger Testing Company nevertheless realizes that a manufacturer is only as relevant as the last product it developed for the market. Where new products could be introduced every year in the past, the internet has changed the game, and product introductions need to be completed monthly, if not weekly.
The problem created by fast product cycles is that the design staff does not have the time required to do a thorough product safety review, so details get overlooked, and overlooked details in product safety testing could result in two possible scenarios:
Overdesigned Product
This happens when there is an attempt to remove non-compliant issues that may or may not exist.
Modified Features
When a product is reviewed by the NRTL, some features and benefits may need to be removed or modified. In a worst-case scenario, a test failure could pop up. Imagine how late-stage modifications can effectively derail your marketing plan, or more importantly, get you pulled off a specification.
Pre-Review Service
No one will argue that late changes or test failures in a product safety program will derail a project, which is disastrous for any company. The solution is the Wilger Testing pre-review service for upfront products where obstacles that inflate NRTL costs are removed to save you time.
Our pre-review service addresses performance issues even before you’ve tooled the product. Simply put, no other firm has the historical or technical knowledge to deliver what we do, which is uncompromising technical service. Wilger Testing Company always keeps you ahead of the curve.
Compliance
Compliance engineering is the essence of what we do, ensuring that your products meet the minimum level of safety required without jumping into bureaucratic hoops.
A Note from a Customer
“ As a former NRTL employee, it was a pleasure to work with Wilger. Wilger sets the bar high among other companies that participate in the Client Test and Data Acceptance Programs because of the quality of their work. Their knowledge of how their products comply with the standards and testing shows in the way they provide their documentation packages. I was always confident that by working on a Wilger project, I would have to put in little effort because the work was already completed. In addition to having near-flawless documentation packages, it was always a pleasure to work with the Wilger staff!”
– Julianne M. Lambiasi,
Evaluation Engineering Supervisor, Magnetrol International
