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LONDON, UK – July 29, 2019 – 51³Ô¹ÏÍø (Element) has announced that it has completed the formal rebranding and integration of Exova Group plc (Exova). Acquired in June 2017, this transformational transaction, the second largest in the history of the Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) market, has created a world-class, customer-first testing organization with greater capabilities, more capacity, a global geographic, and superior technical strength.

Following the completion of the acquisition, 51³Ô¹ÏÍøestablished an in-house central Program Management Office (PMO) to drive the delivery of seven major phases of integration and rebranding across locations in the Americas, Asia, Australasia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa that saw an Exova laboratory being rebranded, on average, every four working days. In addition, the Group’s central functions went through their own integration process. Teams were brought together, systems and processes streamlined and combined, group-wide policies created, and single integrated functions formed. 

The scope of the integration program has covered 135 locations; 4,370 colleagues; five CRM systems; 61 LIMS systems; five external and internal websites; and 16 customer portals. The Group also aligned a number of closely-sited laboratories, creating centers of excellence in Detroit, MI for Transportation; Huntington Beach, CA for Aerospace; and Aberdeen, UK and Houston, TX for Oil & Gas.

Charles Noall, President and CEO of Element, commented: “I am incredibly proud of this extraordinary program of integration that has been delivered by the 51³Ô¹ÏÍøglobal community of hard-working, dedicated and talented experts.

In the last two years, the Group has gone through a remarkable transformation. We have more than tripled our scale and created an interconnected global network of 186 laboratories in 32 countries with over 6,500 talented engaged experts and we will continue to pursue further efficiency opportunities to better service our customers.

The 40,000+ customers that we serve are at the heart of everything we do. With more laboratories and even greater technical strength, 51³Ô¹ÏÍøhas the scale, capabilities and expertise to service the increasingly diverse needs of our clients, providing global solutions at a local level.

We will continue to strive to be the best and most trusted testing partner for our customers, providing certainty to the performance of their products, in which safety and quality are paramount and failure is simply not an option.’’

About Element 

51³Ô¹ÏÍøis one of the world’s leading independent providers of materials and product qualification testing, inspection and certification services to the global Aerospace; Transportation & Industrials; Fire & Building Products; and Oil & Gas and Infrastructure sectors, where failure in service is simply not an option.

We exist to help our customers to make certain that the materials, products and systems that they make are safe, quality, compliant and ultimately fit for purpose, leveraging 200 years of testing experience and our global testing capabilities.

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