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  • Industrial Research Limited

    Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand

     

    MSL is New Zealand's national metrology institute operating within Industrial Research Limited under the authority of the Measurement Standards Act 1992.

  • Chris Young verifying a weigh station

    MSL offers calibration services

     

    As New Zealand’s National Metrology Institute, one of our main functions is to provide calibrations traceable to New Zealand’s National Standards and to the SI. All of our routine calibration certificates are recognised internationally as demonstrating traceability to the SI.

  • Resistance Bridge Calibrator

    New Zealand's measurement structure

     

    The measurement infrastructure in New Zealand presently consists of a number of autonomous organisations with specific and separate responsibilities which cooperate to ensure a coherent measurement system is possible.

     

    MSL has the primary responsibility for the provision of physical measurement standards.

  • 15-06-2011 Scientist for a Day
    Businesses are being offered the services of some of New Zealand's top scientists and engineers as part of a programme aimed at demonstrating the benefits of research and development.
  • 15-03-2011 Proposed changes to the SI system of units.
    The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) have now drafted resolutions on the intention to redefine the kilogram, the ampere, the kelvin and the mole.

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