CEQ is a multi-purpose structure for business support, born from the collaboration between the Industrial Association of the Province of Pistoia (now known as Confindustria Toscana Nord) and local centres, with the funds of the L.R. 317 on industrial districts

Born in 1998, first of the Valdienevole’s footwear department, CEQ has progressively expanded its field of activity which today concerns the upholstered furnitore sector and more generally wood-furniture, the textile and clothing sector, plastic materials and products for homes, the metalworking and transport sector, with particular attention for companies in the railway sector, metallic carpentry, heat treatmentes and painting.

The services for the calibration of the measuring and testing instruments, are then gradually added, now they are addressed to the companies of each product sector.

Among the different activities conducted by the laboratory CEQ, here we remind the tests for the railway sector.

CEQ’s Quality, Testing and Calibration Service is therefore a point of reference for Tuscan companies (and not only) of very diversified sectors (from tannery to footwear, from leather goods to clothing, from wood-furniture to buildings up to mechanics but united by the commitment to quality, to innovate and to face the markets with the weapons of competition and the ability to innovate products and processes.

As a public-owned facility (the Camera di commercio di Pistoia is owner of more than 75% of the Laboratory’s equipment) managed by a mixed public-private entity (Next Technology Tecnotessile srl), CEQ is part of the Tuscany Region’s technological network.

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