Every plastic, rubber, coating, or packaged product is expected to survive years of real-world use, but you rarely have years to wait and find out. Accelerated aging testing solves this by exposing materials to controlled heat, humidity, and time-compression protocols that simulate long-term aging in a matter of weeks, giving you a reliable read on shelf life, durability, and failure risk before a product ever reaches the market.
At Kiyo R&D Lab, our NABL-accredited (ISO/IEC 17025:2017) facility in Chennai runs accelerated aging programs to ASTM, ISO, and IS standards for automotive components, plastics and rubber compounds, coatings, and sterile medical device packaging. Whether you need a shelf-life claim validated or a component qualified for years of field exposure, our team designs a protocol matched to your material and application.
Heat, humidity, UV exposure, and time all degrade materials in ways that aren’t obvious on day one. A rubber seal can go brittle after two summers, a coating can chalk and lose adhesion, and a sterile medical pouch can lose its barrier integrity long before its labelled expiry date. Waiting years to observe this naturally isn’t practical for product launches, warranty commitments, or regulatory submissions.
Accelerated aging testing uses the Arrhenius principle and controlled environmental chambers to compress years of real-time aging into weeks, so you can predict shelf life, validate packaging integrity, and catch material weaknesses early — before they become field failures or compliance issues.
Kiyo R&D Lab offers a full suite of thermal accelerated properties testing for plastics, rubber, coatings, and packaging, tailored to your industry and standard.
Sustained heat-chamber exposure for plastics and rubber to assess long-term thermal degradation and property retention.
Accelerated aging of sterile medical device packaging to validate seal strength and barrier integrity claims.
Air-oven aging to track hardness, tensile, and elongation changes in vulcanized rubber over simulated time.
Heat and humidity cycling to evaluate coating adhesion, gloss retention, and cracking over accelerated timeframes.
Arrhenius-based modelling from multi-temperature aging data to project real-time shelf life with statistical confidence.
Tensile, flexural, and hardness retesting after aging to quantify exactly how much property retention is lost.
Our accelerated aging protocols are built around internationally recognised standards, so your test reports are accepted by OEMs, regulators, and auditors alike.
ASTM ISO IS
| Standard | What It Covers | Typical Use |
|---|---|---|
| ASTM F1980 | Accelerated aging of sterile medical device packaging | Medical device pouches, trays, and sterile barrier systems |
| ASTM D3045 | Heat aging of plastics without load | General-purpose plastic components and housings |
| ASTM D573 | Rubber deterioration in an air oven | Rubber seals, gaskets, and elastomer components |
| ISO 188 | Rubber vulcanized — accelerated aging and heat resistance tests | Automotive rubber parts, hoses, and moulded components |
| ASTM D4714 | Oven aging for elevated-temperature performance evaluation | Coated and composite materials under sustained heat |
| IS 13360-5 | Plastics — determination of thermal ageing behaviour | Domestic and export plastics compliance testing |
Need a customer-specific or OEM-defined aging protocol instead? Our team can design and execute a customised schedule around your exact application.
Kiyo R&D Lab runs accelerated aging testing from two facilities in Tamil Nadu, serving clients across Chennai, Kanchipuram, and the wider industrial belt.
Our NABL-accredited main laboratory, equipped for thermal accelerated aging, mechanical, and material testing.
📞 Call 90420 86986 💬 Request a QuoteOur second branch, positioned close to the automotive and manufacturing cluster for faster turnaround on OEM samples.
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Product failures caused by heat, humidity, and time are avoidable when you know how a material behaves before it ships. Our NABL-accredited accelerated aging testing gives you real, standard-backed data — not guesswork — to back your shelf-life claims and design decisions.
From our labs in Chitlapakkam, Chrompet and Oragadam, Sriperumbudur, our team is ready to design a protocol around your plastic, rubber, coating, or packaging application.
