KEMA Labs is world renowned Testing, Inspections & Certification organization. Located at several sites across the globe, we combine traditional with state-of-the-art gear to ensure every kind of grid equipment, from medium- to ultra high-voltage , can be tested, satisfying today’s increasingly demanding criteria for performance and safety .
Brief history
1927 KEMA is founded by Dutch power utilities
1929 The company wins its first foreign contract
1937 KEMA sets up its first large-scale high power laboratory
1938 It sets up its first large scale high voltage laboratory
1952 The laboratories are rebuilt after WW2
1958 A new high power laboratory is created
1977 KEMA, which now employs 1,200 people, celebrates its 50 th anniversary
1987 Introduction of three phase synthetic testing
1990 KEMA buys Powertest in Chalfont, Pennsylvania, USA
1992 The company’s high power laboratory measurement system is digitalised
2001 The company opens a Medium Voltage laboratory
2008 KEMA opens a flex power grid laboratory
2009 A new high voltage laboratory is opened
2009 The company buys ZKU in Prague, Czech Republic
2012 DNV GL buys KEMA
2014 A new HVDC cable testing laboratory is opened
2017 The high power laboratory is expanded to test at ultra-high voltage levels of 800 – 1200 kV
2019 CESI acquires KEMA