Industrial analysis and research services; Material research; Material testing; Setting of safety standards and limit values, being a scientific service; Technical consultancy for federal ministries, trade associations, industrial enterprises and consumer organisations; Technical consultancy in the field of material technology and chemistry, in particular for federal governments, the economy, and national and international organisations; Drawing up of quality standards, and assistance with standardisation and other technical regulations for assessing substances, materials, structures and processes with regard to the early detection of damage or damage prevention, environmental protection and upholding economic values, being scientific-technical services; Research and development, technical construction, testing, analysis, evaluation, certification and authorisation, and consultancy and information in the fields of analytical chemistry and reference materials, in particular quality assurance, methodology of chemical analytics, in particular inorganic chemical analytics, organic chemical analytics, structural analytics, nuclear analytics, chemical safety technology, in particular with regard to heterogenous combustion reactions, containment of reactive hazardous goods, in particular safety of hazardous goods, production monitoring, in particular with regard to the safe transport of packaging and bulk goods containers, hazardous goods tanks and accident mechanics, safety of transport containers and storage containers, environmental sustainability of materials, in particular fundamental principles of environmental protection, coordination with regard to biological aspects of environmental protection and material protection, material emissions, waste disposal technology and remediation of contaminated sites, materials engineering in relation to building materials, in particular the structure and composition of construction materials, material mechanics, operational stability and component safety, material technology with regard to high-performance ceramics and composite materials, joining technology safety, polymer functions, in particular resistance of polymeric materials, mechanics of polymers and fibre composite materials, the disposition and structure of polymers, structural safety, in particular of building materials, structural engineering, non-destructive testing of structural protection for buildings, corrosion and corrosion prevention, material protection, non-destructive testing, in particular tribology, wear protection, surface engineering, non-destructive testing and quality assurance using blasting processes, non-destructive testing using acoustic and electrical processes, technical-scientific cross-departmental functions, in particular measurement technology and testing technology, sensor systems, applied mathematics and information technology, and scientific apparatus construction, determination and evaluation of hazardous material properties; Technical improvement of the safe transport of radioactive materials, namely by means of the development and application of test methods in relation to the safety of transport containers for radioactive materials, and by means of technical consultancy for the safe transport of radioactive materials; Technical testing and development of technical possibilities for detecting explosives; Providing and evaluation of authorised processes and reference materials in analytical chemistry being chemical laboratory services; Implementation and consultancy in relation to ensuring and improving safety in handling explosive, combustible or otherwise dangerously reactive substances, substance systems, objects, and compressed gases in the context of laws regarding hazardous materials, hazardous goods, explosives, weapons, apparatus safety and limiting emissions, being engineering and natural science services; Consultancy in relation to ensuring and improving safety with regard to containment systems for transporting and storing hazardous goods, being engineering and natural science services; Evaluation of the environmental compatibility of materials; Safeguarding of functionality in the use of materials, being engineering and natural science services; Technical examination and technical evaluation of the safety, reliability and durability of building materials, building constructions, structures and structural installations in the case of climatic, corrosive and complex stresses and the effects of fire; Consultancy in relation to ensuring the safe, intended condition of products, installations and systems, improvement of the safety of technical components, being engineering and natural science services; Quality management and quality improvement in relation to testing, being engineering and natural science services; Development and providing of reference materials and processes, being chemical laboratory services; Improvement of safety and reliability in chemical engineering and materials engineering, being engineering and natural science services; Implementation and providing of reference methods, in particular for analytical chemistry, safe handling of hazardous substances and hazardous goods, operation of technical systems and processes, in relation to damage mechanisms and damage analysis, in relation to the safe and environmentally sustainable use of materials, being measurement and testing laboratory services; Inorganic analysis, being chemical laboratory services, in particular high-purity substance analytics and purity characterisation, Determination of element contents, Determination of the isotopic composition of elements, and of atomic weight, High-precision X-ray fluorescence analysis; Non-destructive determination of trace constituents and ultra-trace constituents, being chemical laboratory services; Gravimetric, electrogravimetric and potentiometric precision determination of metals, being chemical laboratory services; Organic analysis, being chemical laboratory services, in particular quantitative high-resolution 1H NMR spectroscopy, Precision determination of ethanol in water, Gas analysis and implementation of gas measurement technology, being chemical laboratory services, in particular gas-chromatographic certification of calibration gas mixtures and reference gas mixtures, Test chamber methods for determining formaldehyde balancing concentrations and the emission of volatile organic compounds, Reference measurement of gas moisture; Testing and calibration of gas sensors; Microscale analysis and microstructure analysis, being chemical laboratory services, in particular precision determination of the chemical composition and specific surface area of solids, Identification of polymorphous forms of organic and inorganic compounds, Phase analysis of nanometre-scale particles, Precision determination of the diameter of monodisperse micro-powders and the proportion of fibres discharged from composite materials, being chemical laboratory services; Testing of mechanical-technological properties, being chemical laboratory services, in particular force calibration; Mechanical and technological testing, Weldability testing of components, Implementation of test methods and calculation methods for fire testing furnaces, Penetration tests using instruments for determining hardness, Testing of optical and electrical properties, being chemical laboratory services, in particular determination of retroreflection coefficients of surfaces and determination of dielectric properties of solids; Non-destructive testing, being chemical laboratory services, in particular determination of the reliability of non-destructive tests, Characterisation of X-ray film systems, Determination of image quality parameters, Measurement of optical densities of X-ray films, Production of reference defects by electrical discharge machining, Measurement of the thickness of concrete components, Locating of slack and prestressed reinforcement in concrete; Testing of surface properties and layer properties, being chemical laboratory services, in particular electron spectroscopy for chemical surface analytics, Spectroscopic ellipsometry, Determination of contents of organic silicon compounds on elastomeric surfaces, Determination of the thicknesses of individual layers in multilayer systems; Penetration tests using instruments for hardness determination, Multi-probe topography analysis, Standard tests and tests using reference organisms; Technical consultancy in relation to scientific or technological databases, being engineering and natural science services.