Research and Development is not contained only within our company and the wishes of our customer base. In addition to our own internal research and testing, we also enlist the help of laboratories and universities whose technologies flow into our daily engineering work. Not until new ideas and products are submitted to extensive tests and use under real world conditions, and each result can be positively evaluated, are they declared marketable. This approach guarantees that all of our newly launched products work as designed, without the need for recall or fear of failure in the field.