There is a lot of noise and conspiracy theories being floated in the market about fender testing, trying to convey the message, everybody is cheating. We at ShibataFenderTeam rather focus on the important issues like a holistic approach to fender designs, which we have been living for decades. A part of that is also testing, and the SFT Group promotes stringent testing, but it has to be done correctly, and unlike others, we provide the full story on the best practice testing approaches. Independent 3rd party testing is one of the tools for clients, and SFT just successfully completed performance testing at University of Washington adding this project to a long list of independently verified performance tests. When it comes to testing of fenders at independent facilities, keep in mind that results could vary between different labs or even within the lab. The keywords here are repeatability and reproducibility, which needs to be considered when assessing test results of any kind. We consider this information part of the full story our clients need, when performing independent tests of any kind.
