TECO is North America's value-added, truly independent third-party certification agency for building products. We certify all types of structural and non-structural panel products including: OSB, plywood, particleboard, and MDF panels manufactured throughout North, Central, and South America, as well as Europe. In addition to panel products we inspect and test deck and guard-rail components as well as many other building product types requiring ICC-ES code report inspections. We test a wide array of other products, including structural wood adhesives and formaldehyde emissions of panel products. Since 1933, TECO's name has represented quality and innovation in the wood products industry.
Headquartered in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, TECO operates state-of-the-art test laboratories in Eugene, Oregon, and Shreveport, Louisiana, equipped to test a full range of engineered wood products and adhesives. We support our global presence with international representatives in Japan and Brazil; and since 1993, have been recognized by the Japanese government to apply the JAS certification mark to structural wood products manufactured for export into Japan. (more about our accreditations)
The TECO TESTED® certification mark is recognized worldwide as a symbol of product and code compliance. Its presence on wood products gives manufacturers instant market recognition, while assuring architects, engineers and builders that the products they design and use for building have met both TECO's and regulatory agencies' requirements for proven performance.
Certification programs are available for:
- Oriented strand board (OSB) --- PS 2-10 (U.S.), CSA O325 (Canada), and JAS (Japan)
- Rim Board --- ANSI/APA PRR-410
- Plywood --- PS 1-09 (U.S.), JAS (Japan), and AS/NZS 2269 (Australia/New Zealand)
- Wood Panel Siding --- ANSI/APA PRR-210
- Glulam --- CSA O177/O122 (Canada) and JAS (Japan)
- Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) --- JAS (Japan)
- Formaldehyde emission from wood-based panels according to the requirements of the Airborne Toxic Control Measure (ATCM) developed by the State of California's Air Resources Board (CARB)
- Particleboard --- ANSI A208.1-2009 (U.S.)
- Medium-density fiberboard (MDF) --- ANSI A208.2-2009 (U.S.)
