Letter to our clients from the Presidents of TUV Rheinland of North America and Unified Testing Services
We are excited to announce the strategic acquisition of Unified Testing Services (UTS) by the TÜV Rheinland Group. This agreement will benefit our clients with added expertise, geographic expansion of coverage, and an increase of service portfolio offerings to additional industry sectors.
Stephan Schmitt President and CEO of TUV Rheinland of North America
“This acquisition enhances our ability to serve additional segments in different industries that we have not served in North America before. Previously we had offered our services in this industry segment for export to the rest of the world. Now we can offer these services for the North American market, which is huge benefit to our clients. Having this significant local expertise will complement our global proficiencies and provide a better network that will benefit local customers.”
TÜV Rheinland currently serves many industry sectors and markets worldwide. With this merger an even larger market can be addressed. The UTS client base includes many diverse groups including: state departments of transportation; universities; banking and real estate institutions; paper and steel mills; power plants; fabrication and machine shops; automobile industry suppliers; industrial equipment suppliers; steel fabrication shops; amusement/theme parks; and state and local governments.
UTS has extensive expertise in a wide variety of testing and inspection services focused on materials, construction, transportation, facilities and environmental engineering. Overall, services include: environmental consulting and testing; destructive and non-destructive materials testing; and shop fabrication inspection of structural steel bridges.
In the environmental arena, UTS provides quality, cost-effective environmental and testing services that include testing, sampling, and analysis of paints for lead concentration as well as assessment and observation of lead–based paint. The staff is trained in a full range of asbestos identification and management services consisting of facility surveys and assessments, abatement design, abatement monitoring and laboratory analysis. A full range of environmental site assessment services ranging from “due diligence” assessments for real property transactions to sampling and testing can be offered. UTS also has the capability to provide indoor air quality testing and assessment (covering both airborne and microbiological contaminant sampling and analysis); underground – and – above ground storage tank assessment and management; and management and storm water permitting.
UTS can greatly aid production part inspection needs with computed radiography in addition to other non-destructive testing (NDT) methodologies: visual; ultrasonic; magnetic particle; and liquid penetrant inspections to any code or specification. This wide range of NDT techniques and procedures supports clients in an industrial atmosphere including ”outage-type” situations. Services include annual boiler inspections, critical piping and pressure vessel inspections, or mechanical integrity verification. Personnel have experience working with pulp and paper, power plants, chemical refineries and bulk storage facilities. A full service lab is located near many automotive manufacturers, as well as, support industry for defense contractors.
Don Uptain President of Unified Testing Services
“ I am very pleased with our merger with TUV Rheinland. We are now part of the premier global testing and certification company having offices in 60 countries. This is remarkable and says much about the quality of our company. We can be proud of our past and look forward to our future with TUV Rheinland. Over the last 15 years UTS faced many challenges and opportunities as our company grew and our markets changed. Our competitive markets will continue to change and now, as part of TUV Rheinland we can take advantage of the opportunities that are coming. We are now more than a regional Southeastern U.S. company and our services can be provided throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico.”
One key element of the merger is a synergistic view of the importance of quality service. In a recent customer satisfaction survey, 98% of TUV Rheinland customers stated that they were very satisfied with the service they received. UTS has always shown a commitment to the highest quality possible in the services that they provide.
The addition of UTS extends the geographic reach of TUV Rheinland of North America. Locations now include: United States – Boston, Rochester, Newtown, Raleigh, Birmingham, Orlando, Detroit, Chicago, Austin, Houston, San Diego, San Francisco, and Portland, Mexico – Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City, Canada – Toronto.
This acquisition will be beneficial to all parties, but most importantly to our collective customers who will benefit from the added industry solutions we can now deliver with consistent high quality.
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