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Welcome to Stork Garwood Laboratories Inc.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
STORK ACQUIRES CONTROLLING INTEREST IN GARWOOD LABORATORIES OF CALIFORNIA
Stork and Garwood testing laboratories support many mutual clients in aerospace, defense, medical, other industries.
Stork Materials Technology has acquired a controlling interest in Garwood Laboratories of California, with an option to purchase all remaining shares in the future. Garwood is a leading provider of product qualification and development testing for the aerospace, military, telecommunications, automotive, commercial and medical markets.
Over 50 years serving industries with quality testing
Founded in 1954, its two facilities in Pico Rivera and San Clemente serve domestic and international customers with a wide range of services, including: EMC/EMI, product safety, and climatic and dynamic testing. Other offerings include NEBS/ Telecom, package, seismic, shock, vibration and hydraulics / pneumatics testing. The laboratories are fully accredited by A2LA to ISO/IEC 17025, registered to ISO 9001:2000, and NVLAP-accredited.
Acquisition is mutually beneficial
Stork Materials Technology Chief Executive Officer Charles Noall said, “The acquisition of Garwood Laboratories allows us to offer an extended range of capabilities to the aerospace, defense and telecom sectors. For many years, Stork and Garwood testing laboratories have supported many mutual clients. Stork Garwood will continue to operate successfully with their excellent staff and General Manager Jim Armstrong's leadership, and we look forward to working together to provide an even more comprehensive portfolio of services.”
Stork Garwood General Manager Jim Armstrong said, “We are excited to become a part of Stork and provide our customers even more access to the global marketplace, with international locations and the additional testing capabilities of twenty-nine other testing laboratories.”
The transfer of the controlling interest to Stork Materials Technology was effective April 30, 2008.
About Stork Materials Technology
Stork Materials Technology is a subsidiary of Stork B.V., a key provider of machinery, engineering, and technical services to industry since 1868. Stork's global network of testing laboratories has become the preeminent provider of laboratory testing in aerospace, architectural, automotive, chemical, manufacturing, medical, nuclear, power generation, polymer, and telecommunications markets.
Garwood Laboratories Inc. is a full service product certification lab located in Southern California . We have three facilities located in Orange and Los Angeles Counties to serve you. For more than half a century we have been providing quality, cost effective testing services for the commercial, military, space, medical, transportation, and aviation industries. Our facilities are well equipped to cover almost any testing need you may have. We pride ourselves on not only our extensive capabilities, but more importantly, our quality people who are here to ensure your test program is handled with the utmost of care and the highest level of professionalism.
Our testing services are diverse and extensive so that we can tailor a testing program to you specifications and needs. We perform Aerospace, Automotive Compliance, Electromagnetic Compatibility / Emissions / Interference, Environmental, Climatics, Fire Testing, Hydraulics, Induced Lightning, MIL-STD, NEBS/Telecommunications, Product Reliability, Product Safety, RTCA/DO, Seismic/Earthquake, Shock & Vibration, Space Simulation certification testing.
Our laboratories are located in Pico Rivera , Ca. and San Clemente , Ca. Pico Rivera is 10 miles South East of downtown Los Angeles . Our dual San Clemente laboratories straddle the South Orange county and Northern San Diego county line. They are 65 miles from Downtown San Diego and 27 miles from Irvine , CA .
We invite you to enter our website to further research our product certifications testing capabilities to discover if we can provide you with the best quality testing services you can find.
Contact us today to discuss your testing needs and allow us the opportunity to prove that Garwood Laboratories Inc. is second to none.
