National Technical Systems (NTS), the leading provider of environmental simulation testing, recently acquired Trace Laboratories. Trace’s 45,000 square foot Palatine, IL facility will become a test center for inspection, certification services for dynamics, climatic, EMC, lighting, product safety, mechanical and fluids. Trace’s Baltimore, MD facility will be used for materials testing. According to William C. McGinnis, President and CEO of NTS, “the addition of Trace Laboratories brings to NTS an excellent management, engineering, and technical team, and allows us to expand our geographic reach and further our presence in two parts of the country critical to our customers’ success: Chicago and Baltimore.” NTS tests innovative aviation, space, defense, nuclear, industrial, medical, and automotive technologies before they hit the market.

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