TPT March 2021

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Brad Sprague joins Davis- Standard’s aftermarket group

DAVID-STANDARD has announced that Brad Sprague has joined the company as regional sales manager aftermarket in the Midwest US region. In this capacity he will be responsible for all large aftermarket sales including feedscrews, barrels, feed sections, gearboxes, conversion packages, control upgrades and extruder and equipment rebuilds for customers throughout the midwestern US. He will support all Davis-Standard product groups in this role. Mr Sprague

brings more than 27 years of experience to his position, most recently with Graham Engineering as a regional sales manager. He has previous experience with Davis-Standard as a regional manager for the pipe and profile and elastomer product groups, also serving the Midwest region. Mr Sprague is an active SPE member. Davis-Standard www.davis-standard.com

Brad Sprague

Ametek Land celebrates half century anniversary of UKAS calibration laboratory AMETEK Land, a temperature

“We are very proud to be celebrating the 50 th anniversary of our UK laboratory,” explained Justin Smith, division vice- president business unit manager at AMETEK Land. “Our customers across many industries recognise the value of partnering with our UKAS-accredited laboratory, which operates to the highest international standards.” To date, the laboratory has issued over 22,000 certificates to customers around the world, including industry and research establishments, Formula 1 race teams, other calibration facilities, and national laboratories. The

laboratory calibrates in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025:2017 (general requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories) and offers a comprehensive service for the certification of infrared thermometers, thermal imagers, scanners, and blackbody sources across the range of -10°C to 2500°C (14°F to 4532°F). Mr Smith added: “By having their equipment calibrated in our laboratory, customers can be assured that their temperature measurement systems will achieve optimal operating performance, improving the accuracy of their measurement capability and meeting required national and international standards. It also means their production control systems are fully traceable, reducing risks to the business, and ensuring peace of mind. All processes, which rely on accurate temperature measurement, must have their instruments calibrated periodically to maintain the highest quality standards.” The UKAS laboratory has recently been accredited against the IOS/IEC 17025:2017 (general requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories) standard, in addition to AMETEK Land’s laboratories in the United States and India. Ametek www.ametek.com

measurement and combustion and emission monitoring specialist, is celebrating a major milestone in its company history – the 50 th anniversary of its UKAS-accredited infrared temperature calibration laboratory in the UK. In 1970, the laboratory in Sheffield was the first in the UK to be accredited by the then British Calibration Service (BCS), now the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), for the issue of calibration certificates for non- contact thermometry.

It is the 50 th anniversary of the company this year

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