Northwest Aerospace News June | July 2019 Issue No. 9 | Page 10

An Ethos of
Certainty
By Robin Bishop
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ith roots nearly twice as old as the aviation industry, Element, an award-winning global testing, inspection, and certifi-
cation (TIC) partner has seen a rebirth in the past decade. Prior to a 2010 management buy-out, Element was known as Stork
Materials Technology with a pedigree rooted as far back as 1827 as Netherland’s Stork Engineering Group’s in-house lab.
While they offer services to major industries such as infrastructure, environmental, fire, oil and gas, transportation, and med-
ical, Element has grown its international aerospace solutions right along with the industry from the very beginning. Funda-
mentally, Element strives to stay abreast of innovation and cutting-edge technology that will directly impact their customer’s
testing, calibration, and certification requirements, none more so than aerospace.
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