Motis builds fire testing instruments for laboratories that have to defend their numbers: classification bodies, manufacturers' test labs and research institutes. The range covers the instruments behind the world's main reaction-to-fire and fire resistance regimes - from the bench-scale cone calorimeter to room-scale installations such as the single burning item apparatus and the Steiner tunnel.
Instrument families
Heat Release & Calorimetry
Cone and mass-loss calorimeters, MCC, OSU and UL 9540A heat release measurement, bomb calorimetry.
Smoke Density & Toxicity
NBS chamber, 3-metre cube, ASTM D2843 and FTIR smoke toxicity analysis.
Flammability & Ignition
UL 94 chamber, oxygen index, glow wire, needle flame, auto-ignition and flammability limits.
Building Materials Fire Testing
SBI, non-combustibility furnace, single flame source, flooring radiant panel and flame spread rigs for EN 13501-1.
Fire Resistance Furnaces
ISO 834 furnaces for full elements, plus indicative furnaces for development screening.
Cable Fire Testing
Bunched cable flame spread, IEC 60331 circuit integrity and cable smoke measurement.
Battery Fire & Thermal Runaway
UL 9540A calorimetry, cell abuse and fire exposure instruments.
PPE Thermal Protection
TPP and related fabric methods, flame manikin, mask, helmet and molten-metal splash rigs.
Evidence first: numbers from the instruments themselves
Fire testing is a measurement business, so this site leads with measurement. The cone calorimeter's radiant cone delivers 0 to 100 kW/m² from a 5000 W heater. The non-combustibility furnace holds 750 ± 5 °C. The SBI test room measures 3 m by 3 m with an exhaust capacity of 0.50 to 0.65 m³/s. These are the documented figures for the instruments on the product pages, where you will also find the standard each instrument is built to and what its test reports.
How laboratories buy from Motis
Fire test instruments are configured per standard, per specimen and per building. The working route is: identify the standard your reports must cite, open the instrument page, and send an inquiry with the standard, your materials and your laboratory conditions. You receive the datasheet for the matching configuration and a quotation. Calibration, maintenance and training services for installed instruments are covered on the services page.