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Brexit Bonus - how you can exploit post-Brexit opportunities Following Brexit, precious metal prices are on the rise. So now is the prime moment to get your scrap metal tested.  AnchorCert Analytical, part of AnchorCert Group, is a leading UKAS-accredited testing laboratory. At AnchorCert Analytical, we offer a fast and efficient Melt & Assay service for scrap, lemels and sweeps containing gold, silver, platinum and palladium.  Our Melt & Assay service is truly ind…

Introducing AnchorCert Group Since 1773, Assay Office Birmingham has been dedicated to a core mission: protecting the consumer and serving the trade with integrity, innovation and independence. It’s what we do. As our clients needs have grown and diversified, so have we. Today, we are trading as the ANCHORCERT GROUP, which incorporates Assay Office Birmingham (assaying, hallmarking, laser-marking), AnchorCert Analytical (melt & assay, consumer product safety testing, q…

Whether it’s a piece of jewellery, an item of clothing or a handbag, if the item is releasing nickel, it can present a serious risk to consumer health and safety.  Nickel sensitisation is a particularly nasty allergic reaction; it can flare up in angry, sore rashes, develop lesions and require medical attention in extreme cases.  And once you’re sensitised, you’re sensitised for life. So when it comes to nickel or its compounds, it’s a case of once bitten, alw…

Assay Office Birmingham and its divisions AnchorCert Analytical, AnchorCert Gem Lab, AnchorCert Academy and SafeGuard Jewellery Valuations  will be CLOSED for business from  4pm Thursday 24th March 2016 And will re-open at 8:30am on Tuesday 29th March 2016. Wishing all our customers a Happy Easter Break!