LONDON, UK – February 25, 2021 – 51³Ô¹ÏÍø (Element) has been recognized with a new Nadcap accreditation for fastener testing at its Huntington Beach, California laboratory.
Element’s Huntington Beach laboratory offers the largest Nadcap-accredited scope of capabilities for fasteners. This includes testing for commercial aerospace fasteners, such as rivets on the exterior of planes; military and defense fasteners; and space applications such as nut fastenings that hold satellites to rockets for launch. The Huntington Beach laboratory is the second 51³Ô¹ÏÍøtesting facility to receive a Nadcap accreditation for fastener testing after Seville, Spain.
Element’s provision of fastener testing includes fastener stress rupture; fastener fatigue; double shear; stress durability; metallography; and hardness testing.
Rick Sluiters, EVP of Americas at Element, said: “We are thrilled our Huntington Beach laboratory has received a Nadcap accreditation for fastener testing. This facility has been testing aerospace fasteners for almost 40 years and our team are experts in this field.
“With the addition of this new Nadcap accreditation at our California facility, we can now offer customers across North America an even broader scope of fastener testing capabilities. The accreditation is a true reflection of our commitment to being the most trusted testing company in the aerospace sector, and to ensuring fastening equipment is tested to the highest standards, and with minimal turnaround time for our customers.”
Element's Nadcap-accredited testing capabilities at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøHuntington Beach supply the base for quality control and product improvement in West Coast aerospace, military, nuclear, and medical manufacturing industries, among others.
About Element
The 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Group is one of the world’s leading global providers of testing, inspection and certification services for a diverse range of materials, products and technologies in advanced industrial supply chains where failure is not an option. Headquartered in London, UK, Element’s team of more than 6,000 expert scientists, engineers and technicians operate from around 200 locations across five continents, delivering an extensive range of solutions to customers in critical industries including aerospace, connected technologies, construction, defense, energy, environmental, life sciences and transportation.
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“The accreditation is a true reflection of our commitment to being the most trusted testing company in the aerospace sector, and to ensuring fastening equipment is tested to the highest standards, and with minimal turnaround time for our customers.”
Rick Sluiters
EVP Americas