CATRA is a specialist test, consultancy and test equipment manufacturing company. Our areas of expertise are in cutlery, knives, blades, hand/ garden tools, cookware, razors and shaving products, surgical blades and instruments, metallic holloware.We carry our confidential and independat services, including corrosion testing, knife blade sharpness and life tests, dishwasher tests, chemical analysis of metals, safety evaluations of consumer products. We are experts in the manufacture of these product groups and so offers technical consultancy services and failure investigations.CATRA researches, designs and manufactures a wide ranger of special purpose test machines for performance testing of all types of cutting blades from razors through to large industrial blades and cutters. Our test development services can be useful for new types of consumer goods that don't yet have standards or recognised methods of testing.