TÜV Rheinland has opened a new €28 million laboratory center in Taicang, near Shanghai in China focused on testing electronic products, photovoltaics, e-mobility and autonomous driving.

The Yangtze River Delta Operation Hub covers an area of almost 40,000 sq m with around 500 employees, making it the testing service provider's largest laboratory site in China. The site also has laboratories for safety and performance testing for various sectors such as textiles, toys, infant and child products, chemicals, light industrial products, home appliances, electric and garden tools, lighting fixtures, audio and video products, and automotive LiDAR with state-of-the-art technology. The hub also features a new packaging and transportation physical testing laboratory, a light distribution laboratory with a large distributed photometer, and an intelligent driving sensing fusion laboratory.

TÜV Rheinland has been active in China for more than 35 years. Greater China is now the most important region outside Germany for TÜV Rheinland and contributed around one-fifth (€485.40 million) of the group's total €2.44 billion revenue in 2023. With more than 4,700 employees in 28 main cities work TÜV Rheinland operates a total of 131 different testing and laboratory centers in greater China. In 2020, TÜV Rheinland opened the Smart Lab in Shanghai, the world's first fully automated, intelligent and unattended laboratory in the testing, inspection and certification industry.

Taicang, 50 km from Shanghai, is home to around 530 German companies.