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UTAC
At its Proving Ground in the UK (Millbrook Proving Ground), UTAC has 70km of varied test tracks, including hill routes, high speed areas and challenging off road courses. Its professional drivers and engineers perform repeatable tests on all types of vehicles in a secure and safe environment.
At its Proving Ground in the UK (Millbrook Proving Ground), UTAC has 70km of varied test tracks, including hill routes, high speed areas and challenging off road courses. Its professional drivers and engineers perform repeatable tests on all types of vehicles in a secure and safe environment. It has a range of test facilities for components and full vehicles. These include engine dynamometers, environmental chambers, crash laboratories, battery test facilities and advanced emissions chassis dynamometers.
Millbrook Proving Ground in the UK is home to innovative companies who benefit from access to UTAC’s testing facilities and expertise, forming an integral part of the UK’s vehicle technology cluster. UTAC hosts exceptional vehicle-related events for up to 7,000 people.
UTAC’s winter test facility, which is based in Northern Finland, specialises in vehicle and tyre testing in winter conditions. The team in Lapland are experts at preparing snow and ice tracks for repeatable testing and at performing development and type approval tests on tyres. The world’s first indoor winter test facilities make testing on natural snow available twelve months of the year.
UTAC, a leading group in the field of development and validation testing, automotive homologation and new technologies related to the autonomous, connected and electric vehicle, provides vehicle testing and validation services and equipment to the automotive, transport, tyre, petrochemical and defence sectors.
The group has 8 test centres in France, the UK, Finland and Morocco (opening end of 2021), test laboratories in the USA and subsidiaries in Germany, Russia, China and Japan. UTAC currently employs around 1,280 people at its various sites.