Sturbridge Metallurgical Services Inc., Sturbridge, Mass., announces that it has been approved as a Materials Testing Lab for Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. (a Lockheed Martin Corp.) and its manufacturing supplier base. Manufacturers, suppliers and/or vendors of Sikorsky, as well as Sikorsky directly, can now utilize the full scope of Sturbridge Metallurgical’s materials testing capabilities. Suppliers can access their approved certification letter through the Sturbridge Metallurgical website and navigate to the quality assurance section.
Sturbridge offers chemical analysis, SEM/EDS analysis, failure analysis, tensile testing, GE grain size ratings, corrosion testing, metallography, hardness and microhardness testing, and a variety of other metallurgical testing services.
“Our team has worked extremely hard to put the systems in place to ensure that organizations such as Sikorsky and their supply chain will want to have their parts tested here,” says Brendan Fullam, General Manager and Business Development Manager at Sturbridge. “We have a great team here and everyone works very hard to keep our customers happy. Having Sikorsky grant us approval validates all of the effort and time that they have put into the organization, and keeps us even more focused on demanding the best from ourselves.”
