The JANÉ CRASH TEST CENTER was created in 2003 when, as a result of the company’s commitment to child safety, it decided to set up its own research and development centre, where it could put the car seats to the limit to take safety beyond the regulatory requirements. The laboratory is the only private crash tunnel in Spain and is one of the most advanced in the world. It is equipped in accordance with ECE regulations and is set up to stage crashes at a greater speed than those defined in the EURO-NCAP test protocol.

The JANÉ CRASH TEST CENTER makes it possible to design child safety products that have been subjected to tests that are even stricter than those required by regulations and test the products as many times as necessary to offer one of the most tested seats on the market and with the strictest certification of Europe.

The laboratory consists of a catapult type crash tunnel, designed exclusively for car safety seats, that allows different speeds of impact to be tested (up to more than 65 km / h). Three types of crashes are tested: frontal, rear and side.

The tests are carried out with all the groups of child safety seats: from newborn up to 36 kilos. The laboratory has all the P series of dummies available and also the advanced Q series (dummies fitted with state-of-the-art technology with sensors, accelerometers, etc. and with advanced biofidelity).

Each car seat is tested with the dummy with the right size and weight for the group being tested. The dummies, whose body is a replica of the representative child for each group or age, are made with maximum biofidelity and with sensors that measure decelerations in different parts of the body, as well as torsion, bending or intrusions that occur to critical parts of the baby’s body.

After each crash precise readings are obtained from each of these sensors which, along with the visual inspection and readings offered by the high speed cameras (more than one thousand images per second), help us to improve our products.

The Jané Crash Test Research Center laboratory also has the technology necessary to carry out the tests defined in the stricter «i-Size» regulations. We have the technology necessary to perform side impact crashes and those under the new Isofix specifications. Thanks to this centre, we have been able to develop innovative and unique products like the Groowy car seat, the first evolutionary i-Size car seat for use from birth up to 150 cm.

Thanks to the constant research carried out at the Jané «Crash Test Research Center» laboratory, assessments of the highest level have been achieved.