Our products and services are used to test coatings, plastics, automotive, personal care, roofing, inks, textiles, pharmaceutical, packaging and sealants.

Our corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities are located in Westlake, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Q-Lab sales and distribution facilities are located in Manchester, England and Shanghai, China.

Q-Lab Weathering Research Service, a division of Q-Lab Corporation, has locations in southern Florida and the Arizona desert. Q-Lab is a contract test service which includes laboratory simulations and outdoor exposures for weathering, lightfastness and corrosion testing.

Corporate History

George Grossman, Founder
A young pilot in the US Air Corps returned to civilian life after serving his country. His name was George Grossman, and he began a new career selling supplies and equipment to paint labs in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Wherever he went, George made it a practice to ask his customers, “What do you need that you can’t get from your current suppliers?” Many customers told George that they needed a consistent, reproducible test surface. They wanted to make sure that if a coating failed during testing, it was because of a bad paint and not because of a contaminated substrate.

George founded Q-Panel in 1956 to fulfill this industry need. When designing the first test panels, George was looking for a way to place a logo on his product that would not be obscured when the lab technicians sprayed the panels with paint. He decided that a “Q” shaped hole would do the trick. Plus, it would represent the quality and quick delivery that George wanted for his panels.

In 2006, Q-Panel Lab Products changed its name to Q-Lab Corporation to reflect the wide range of instruments and services it provides, and the industries it serves.