UL Solutions Retail Center of Excellence in Arkansas, USA

Benefits of working with UL Solutions Retail Center of Excellence

This advanced retail testing laboratory will feature deep technical expertise to help retailers, brands and suppliers identify critical risks, quickly bring products to market and evaluate to safety, quality and sustainability requirements.

• Speed and scale: Spanning across 100,000 square feet in Lowell, Arkansas, the new Retail Center of Excellence is one of the largest testing laboratories in North America dedicated to retail and consumer products. Our workflow is optimized for speed, scale, and flexibility.
• Expanded capabilities: We have expanded testing capabilities and capacity in strategic areas, including packaging, reliability, tear down, furniture, electrical and electronics, sporting goods, and chemistry, with space for future expansion.
• Consumer insights: Our Product Experience Center helps you gain valuable perceptions from consumers on product performance, assembly, instructions, and usability to identify potential issues prior to production. This unique service puts the consumer at the center to help our customers reduce risk and improve star-ratings.
• Expertise: Key subject matter experts will be onsite for real-time collaboration with customers. Our experts will leverage the UL Solutions global safety science network across product categories to help solve problems and provide valuable insights.
• Collaboration: This facility will be a showcase center for meetings and events. Retailers, brands, suppliers, and test partners can come together in this location to address industry and customer challenges, educate stakeholders on testing and quality assurance processes, and bring safety, sustainability, quality and performance to the forefront of the product development process.