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Below is a short list of European institutions offering thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity measurement services.

There is a summary with essential information to give users a view of the possibilities offered. More detailed information, searchable by name, material types, temperature range, accreditation, country etc., is available under a search on Services or may be given by the contact names below of each institution.

Type of service	Institute & link	Country	Contact	Phone
Thermal conductivity - Comparative steady-state - Contact transient methods Thermal diffusivity - Laser flash	ARCS	Austria	Wolfgang Hohenauer	+43 50550-0
*Thermal conductivity* - Guarded hot plate - Comparative steady-state *Thermal diffusivity* - Modulated heating beam *Electrical resistivity* - Four-probe technique	IKE	Germany	Ruediger Brandt	+49 711 6852374
*Thermal conductivity* - Two-probe, collinear four-probe and square four-probe electric resistivity	IMF-1	Germany	Magnus Rohde	+49 7247 824328
Thermal conductivity - Subsecond technique	IMGC	Italy	Ferruccio Girard GianCarlo Bussolino	+39 011 3977342 +39 050 3152549
Thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, specific heat capacity - Plane source: pulse and step-wise transient	IPSAS	Slovakia	Ludovit Kubicar	+421 2 5941 0576
*Thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, specific heat capacity* - using Hot Disk, a transient plane source technique	Hot Disk AB	Sweden	Lars Hälldahl	+46 18 590575
Thermal diffusivity - Laser flash *Thermal conductivity* - Guarded hot plate	LNE	France	Bruno Hay	+33 1 30 69 12 20
Thermal conductivity - Guarded hot plate - Comparative steady-state - Contact transient methods *Thermal diffusivity* - Laser flash *Electrical resistivity* - Four-probe technique	NPL	UK	Thermal services	+44 20 8943 6444
*Thermal conductivity* - Guarded hot plate - Heat flow meter - Transient Plane Source or Gustafsson Hot Disc *Thermal resistance/ thermal transmittance* - Guarded hot box	SP	Sweden	Bertil Jonsson B.Adl-Zarrabi	+46 33 165160 +46 33 165202
*Thermal conductivity* - Guarded hot plate - Hot wire method *Thermal diffusivity* - Laser flash *Electrical resistivity* - Four-probe technique	ZAE	Germany	V Drach	+49 931 70564 36