Intertek acquires Epsilon

06 Feb 2008

Intertek, the leading global provider of quality and safety services to a wide range of global and local industries, today announces its acquisition of Epsilon. Winner of the Queens Award for Enterprise in 2007, UK-based Epsilon is a leading provider of hazardous-area site assessment, and product testing and certification services under the ATEX Directive.

“Epsilon is a perfect complement to our burgeoning hazardous locations product testing and certification business,” said Gregg Tiemann, Executive Vice President, Commercial and Electrical Division, Intertek. “Their expertise provides our clients with a full range ATEX and DSEAR services from one provider; bringing cost efficiencies and further speeding their time to market. Epsilon’s deep regulatory and technical knowledge in this area will be a valuable resource to our clients and staff.”

Epsilon’s Managing Directors Sean Clarke and Stephen D’Henin added, “As many of our customers have a global presence, we can provide a secured infrastructure that enables us to deliver high quality services to them, now and in the future. Intertek has offices and laboratories in over 100 countries worldwide and becoming part of that network we can more effectively deliver what our clients need, wherever they are in the world.”

The integration of Epsilon with Intertek provides manufacturers with a full suite of complementary service lines required for launching products globally. Manufacturers seeking hazardous-area product assessments and certification now have single-point access to electromagnetic compatibility testing, product safety testing and certification with Intertek’s ETL Listed Mark for North America, and product performance testing.

Epsilon has hazardous-area product testing laboratories in Chester, UK; and Webster, Texas.