Stork Materials Technology Netherland's Laboratory awarded Nadcap Accreditation
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS - 30 June 2004
Stork Materials Technology is pleased to announce that Stork FDO, its Material Testing and Failure Analysis Laboratory located in Amsterdam has been awarded a Nadcap accreditation for Mechanical Testing.
The accreditation, under the Nadcap supplier programme, covers a full range of mechanical testing capabilities including tensile testing, impact testing, hardness testing, bend testing, microscopic and macroscopic evaluation, heat treatment and corrosion testing.
This is a significant achievement for Stork FDO, which becomes one of the first independent material testing laboratories in mainland Europe to be Nadcap accredited. A number of other Stork Materials Technology laboratories in the United States already hold Nadcap accreditations.
Nadcap, is a US based organisation representing major prime contractors, suppliers and government agencies in aerospace, defence and related industries on a worldwide basis. The Performance Review Institute (PRI), an independent, not-for-profit trade association affiliated with the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), administers Nadcap. Through Nadcap, PRI accredits subcontractors and suppliers to aerospace and defence industry consensus standards.
Stork Materials Technology is an integrated network of more than 20 independently operating, long established materials testing laboratories located in North America and Europe. Stork Materials Technology employs 650 scientists, engineers and technicians who are specialists in material technology and service customers worldwide.