INTERTEK, a leading quality solutions provider to industries worldwide, has officially opened its newly expanded centre of excellence for corrosion testing services.
The company has invested £1.2m in its production and integrity assurance (P&IA) facility in Trafford Park, to meet growing demand for high-end corrosion and materials testing in the oil and gas industry.
New contract awards worth more than £1m won by the P&IA team in recent months include studies for major clients in the UK, Middle East and South East Asia.
The work covers a wide range of technical areas, such as corrosion fatigue, pipeline wet layup simulations, corrosion in super critical CO2 environments, evaluation of corrosion resistant alloy sand non-metallic materials under high-temperature/high pressure conditions plus a range of studies related to corrosion inhibition.
This has driven the site expansion which now covers 27,000 sq ft and is one of the world’s largest independent laboratories dedicated to corrosion testing.
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