The Washington, DC-based American Council of Independent Laboratories (ACIL) announced the 20 laboratories receiving the nationwide 2013 ACIL Seal of Excellence (SOE) Award at the ACIL Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, AZ.  Developed in 1996 to address the industry's quality issues and recognize those laboratories with exemplary quality performance, the SOE Program also provides laboratory data users with a mechanism to evaluate testing laboratories. Participants commit to ensuring data integrity, meeting customers' quality needs and setting performance standards for the testing laboratory industry...

The American Council of Independent Laboratories presented Weck Laboratories with a Special Recognition for Customer Satisfaction, placing in the Top Fifth of program participants.

The Seal of Excellence program participants are committed to ensuring the integrity of laboratory data, meeting customers' quality needs and setting the standards of performance for the testing laboratory industry. The program ranks participating laboratories' previous 12 months of proficiency-testing study rounds, examines customer-satisfaction ratings and feedback, and requires laboratory management to commit to a data-integrity program. The Seal of Excellence program was developed in 1996 to address the industry's need to improve its focus on quality issues and recognize laboratories with exceptional quality performance.

Weck Laboratories has received the ACIL Seal of Excellence & Special Recognition for being in the "Top Five" labs in Proficiency Testing scores for 2008 The Award is presented to laboratories scoring greater than 90% on the combined average of all the PT studies for the previous twelve months and ranked better than 3 on overall customer satisfaction and timeliness as measured by the Seal of Excellence Survey. Weck scored 98.6% relative to the the average of 96.7% for all survey participants.

Each time it has participated, Weck Laboratories, Inc. has received the American Council of Independent Laboratories (ACIL) Seal of Excellence program award and has done so again for 2006. This year the lab has also received a special recognition for being one of the Top Ten Laboratories in timeliness. Any environmental testing laboratory who wants to be recognized as a participating laboratory must maintain proof of annual ethics training and an early detection system for questionable analytical practices, submit a signed code of ethics and twelve months of Proficiency Testing (PT) scores, and distribute satisfaction surveys to their customers...