Element wins Boeing Performance Excellence Awards

AMoct19News - Element
AMoct19News - Element

Element Materials Technology has been awarded the 2018 Gold Boeing Performance Excellence Award (BPEA) for its Huntington Beach, California laboratory, while the Element Los Angeles laboratory won Silver.

The annual award recognises superior performance in the highest tiers of Boeing’s supply chain. This is the second year Element Huntington Beach has achieved the Gold award and the first year that Element Los Angeles has achieved Silver status.

The award measures a 12-month performance period which coincided with the successful integration of two former Exova laboratories, following their acquisition by Element in 2017. A series of investments were also made to support the growth of the metallic testing centre of excellence in Huntington Beach and the non-metals destructive centre of excellence in Los Angeles.

To strengthen its capabilities, Element has acquired a new 30,000ft2 machine shop and remodelled 20,000ft2 of existing footprint to bolster its destructive metals testing capability in Huntington Beach. The laboratory specialises in stress rupture and creep testing; failure analysis; dynamic and fatigue testing; chemical analysis; metallurgy and microscopy; mechanical; heat treating; and machining.

In Los Angeles, a 10,000ft2 expansion has delivered one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive non-metals destructive testing laboratories, enhancing technical expertise. It specializes in thermal analysis; flammability; mechanical testing; electrical properties evaluation; and environmental testing.

Rick Sluiters, EVP Aerospace at Element, said: “We are proud to receive a Gold and Silver award from Boeing this year, which demonstrates our commitment to excellence in aerospace testing and customer service.

“Our long-term relationship with Boeing continues to go from strength to strength and, combined with our ongoing investments in technical resources, equipment and capacity, we are striving to maintain our position as the market leader in the industry.”

Element has over 80 years’ experience in both commercial and military aerospace testing and dedicates more than 3,000 technicians, engineers and scientists to the sector.

The company has 29 Nadcap-accredited laboratories with 46 Nadcap accreditations.

www.element.com

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