Materials Testing Laboratory in Bhubaneswar, Odisha

TCR Eastern at a glance / ଏକ ନଜରରେ ଟିସିଆର ଇଷ୍ଟର୍ନ

TCR Eastern is the NABL ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited laboratory (TC-15993) and field base that TCR Engineering runs at Bhubaneswar for Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand and the north-east, with a branch office at Paradip. English on the left, Odia on the right.

Orientation in Odia / ଓଡ଼ିଆରେ ପରିଚୟ

TCR publishes its employee orientation film in Odia for the Bhubaneswar and Paradip teams: identity, safety and due process, in the language the work is done in.

Play: Odiya - TCR Employee Orientation: Identity, Safety, and Due Process

What TCR Eastern is

TCR Eastern was launched in March 2023 as a central hub for eastern India, serving cross-country pipeline radiography and ultrasonic work, advanced NDT, metallurgical consulting including failure analysis, Fitness-for-Service and remaining-life assessment, alongside destructive materials testing. The laboratory was formally opened on 18 April 2023 and is run by Samir Choudhury, General Manager.

It is the third accredited TCR laboratory in India, after Mahape in Navi Mumbai (NABL NABLT0726MH18640) and Vadodara (TCR Advanced, NABL TC-6739). A client in Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand or the north-east reaches the same scope, the same methods and the same report format without shipping samples across the country.

Accreditation

The Bhubaneswar laboratory holds NABL accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 under certificate TC-15993. The scope carries 409 items and the certificate is valid 30 April 2025 to 29 April 2029. Accreditation is site-specific: this certificate covers Bhubaneswar, and the Mahape scope (NABLT0726MH18640, 1483 items) covers Navi Mumbai.

• NABL ISO/IEC 17025:2017, certificate TC-15993, 409 scope items, valid 30 April 2025 to 29 April 2029
• Certificate and scope: NABL ISO 17025, Bhubaneswar laboratory (PDF)
• ILAC MRA reciprocity, so a report issued here is accepted in over 90 economies without re-testing

Laboratory testing at Bhubaneswar

The mechanical testing laboratory at Bhubaneswar runs the destructive and analytical bench under the NABL scope. Every test follows an internationally recognised method and is reported against the standard it was run to.

• Physical and mechanical destructive testing, including tensile, hardness, impact and bend
• Chemical analysis of metals and alloys
• Corrosion studies
• Metallurgical evaluation and metallography
• Welder qualification testing, WPS and PQR, and certification of qualified welders
• Non-destructive testing

Sample scope and method availability are governed by the NABL scope document linked above. Where a client needs a method outside the Bhubaneswar scope, the sample is run at Mahape under the Navi Mumbai accreditation and the report names the laboratory that performed it.

Pipeline radiography and field NDT

Cross-country pipeline radiography and ultrasonic testing are run out of Bhubaneswar, which is what the office was opened to serve. The field bench covers girth-weld radiography on pipeline spreads, advanced NDT, and the metallurgical follow-up when an indication has to be explained rather than just recorded.

Radiography anywhere in India is carried out under TCR's AERB licence (23-IRLOP-893925). The related capability pages are Pipeline Radiography, Pipeline RT Crawlers and Conventional NDT.

Offices and address

TCR Eastern operates from two addresses in Odisha. Paradip is a branch office and reports to Bhubaneswar; it is not a separate accredited laboratory.

Why Odisha

Odisha is one of India's fastest-growing industrial states, with steel and metals, mining, power and energy, ports and infrastructure, and heavy engineering and fabrication all expanding at once.

Having the laboratory and the NDT crews in the state rather than in Mumbai cuts turnaround, cuts logistics cost, and puts a metallurgist on site the same week rather than the same month.

Documents

Download the reference documents for this page. Every file is hosted on this domain and is also listed in the site document library.

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  NABL ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Certificate and Full Test Scope, Bhubaneswar (2025-2029)

  Accreditation, certificate TC-15993, 409 scope items, valid 30 April 2025 to 29 April 2029. Certificate first, then the 39-page scope annexure

  PDF (545 KB)

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  Toyo and Technip Approval, TCR Engineering Bhubaneswar

  Approval documentation for the Bhubaneswar laboratory on Toyo Engineering and Technip project work

  PDF (7.9 MB)