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Transcat Expands Services Business with Acquisition of Spectrum Technologies

December 30, 2015 Office

ROCHESTER, NY, December 30, 2015 – Transcat, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRNS) (“Transcat” or the “Company”), a leading provider of accredited calibration and compliance services and distributor of professional grade handheld test, measurement and control instrumentation, announced […]

Danaher Announces New Diversified Industrial Growth Company to be Named Fortive Corporation

December 3, 2015 Office

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) (the “Company”) today revealed the name of the new diversified industrial growth company expected to launch in 2016 as Fortive Corporation. Fortive will be comprised […]

A New, World-Class Facility for Infrared Calibrations

October 21, 2015 Office

Source: http://nist.gov/pml/div685/grp03/new-facility-for-infrared-calibration.cfm NIST is about to open the world’s most accurate facility for calibrating infrared (IR) detectors. It is made possible by the establishment of an extremely precise reference scale for detector performance based on NIST’s […]

Pacific Accreditation Cooperation Recognizes IAS Management System Certification Body Accreditation Program

June 23, 2015 Office

The International Accreditation Service, Inc., (IAS) achieved full signatory status to the Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (PAC) Multilateral Recognition Arrangement (MLA) during a signing ceremony on June 17 at the PAC Plenary meeting in Colombo, Sri […]

Quality Magazine Unveils New Trade Show

June 19, 2014 Office

The Quality Show is a brand new tradeshow launching on October 27-29, 2015 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. The Quality Show, back home in Rosemont, is dedicated exclusively to connecting […]

Trescal Pursues Its Acquisition Strategy In N.A.

April 10, 2014 Office

Paris, April 10th 2014 – Trescal, the international specialist in calibration services, announces today that it has acquired Instrument Calibration Services and Test Equipment Repair Corporation, two companies that provide calibration and repair services for […]

Take F2: NIST’s Latest, Most Accurate Time Standard Debuts

April 9, 2014 Office

April 3, 2014, BOULDER, Colo. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has officially launched a new atomic clock, called NIST-F2, to serve as a new U.S. civilian time […]

NIST Gives Astronomers a Better Ruler in the Search for Extrasolar Planets

March 26, 2014 Office

NIST Tech Beat March 26, 2014 – Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have rejuvenated a technique for finding planets near distant stars.* New measurements of light from special lamps could […]