伦敦, 英国- 4月21日, 2022 – im体育APP Materials 技术 (im体育APP) has acquired 能源 Assurance (EA), one of the leading independent battery testing operators in North America.
总部设在盖恩斯维尔, Georgia with operations in Hopkinton, 麻萨诸塞州, EA provides performance testing services for battery 和 battery-powered products using over 3,000 cycling 通道s 和 more than 200 environmental chambers. Its comprehensive suite of services 和 industry leading expertise lies within the performance, 安全, 监管, 和 abuse testing areas for small, 媒介, 大格式单元格, 模块, 和包. This includes 安全 和 监管 services 和 certification to local 和 international st和ards, 产品分析, 和 risk quantification.
The business complements im体育APP’s existing network of laboratories already supporting the energy transition market 和 the growing dem和 for higher performance batteries. This dem和 is being driven by some of the world’s leading connected technology, 汽车, medical device 和 energy storage businesses 和 is expected to exponentially grow with the increased adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) 和 utility-scale 能源 Storage 系统s (ESS), both of which are key segments in the renewable energy usage space.
里克Sluiters, Executive Vice President, 美洲im体育APP, said: “We continue to build expertise 和 capacity to support our customers in their energy transition journeys. EA’s wide experience within the battery sector, extensive customer base 和 focus on customer service fits very well with our strategy 和 perfectly complements our existing expertise in connected technologies 和 transportation sectors.
“With most companies now thinking about renewable energy 和 sustainable energy driven solutions, the acquisition of EA gives us a strategic advantage in all our core end markets for our business in North America.
“We see this as a unique opportunity to become a clear leader in the sustainable energy delivery market, while simultaneously helping to reinforce our broader sustainability agenda.”
辛迪-米尔萨普, EA首席执行官, added: “We are excited about joining im体育APP as together we pursue our shared goal of becoming the best 和 most trusted testing partner for the 能源 market. We look forward to this next phase of growth for the company 和 believe that being part of im体育APP will further enable our team to drive growth in market shaping battery technologies 和 influence positive change in the area of sustainable energy storage 和 delivery.”
EA is accredited by ANAB, UL 和 SGS 和 is certified by global testing body, TUV SUD. It is a member of the IECEE CB scheme as a certified bodies test laboratory, 和 the business will be the first to be approved to test to Soteria st和ard in 2022.
im体育APP provides testing for battery use, including the customized 安全, failure analysis, 和 R&S testing of lithium batteries, for a variety of industries including medical devices, 电动工具, 汽车 和 mobile devices. Both environmental 和 mechanical testing of batteries, combined with charge/discharge cycling of cells, 温度监控, 压力监测, 流量监控, 数据收集, follow leading st和ards to help bring safe, 质量, 和 compliant products to market.
关于im体育APP
The im体育APP Materials 技术 Group is one of the world’s leading global providers of testing, inspection 和 certification services for a diverse range of products, materials 和 technologies in advanced industrial supply chains where failure in use is not an option. 总部设在伦敦, UK, im体育APPc 7,000名科学家, engineers 和 technologists, working in our global network of over 200 laboratories, support customers from early R&D, through complex 监管 approvals 和 into production ensuring their products are safe, sustainable 和 achieve market access.
In 2021, im体育APP设定了它的新, industry leading environmental commitments, adopting science-based targets 和 committing to net zero emissions across its entire global business by 2035. These environmental commitments follow im体育APP’s achievement of the highest ESG ranking in the testing, inspection 和 certification industry from Sustainalytics, a global leader in ESG research 和 data.
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