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We're Hiring
Certification Engineer Job Description: This is a full-time, on-site role for a Certification Engineer at Fastener Testing Services...
Apr 291 min read
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Welcome to the team
Fastener Testing Services Limited is pleased to welcome Lynsey Griffiths to our expanding team. Lynsey has joined the company part-time...
Mar 311 min read
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Embrittlement
Embrittlement can reduce the tensile ductility of a material, potentially leading to premature failure and a brittle fracture. Various...
Mar 311 min read
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DID YOU KNOW
Fastener Testing services are located on the old Sunbeam Motor Car Factory. In 1905 Sunbeam Motor Car Company Limited acquired a...
Mar 41 min read
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CHEMISTRY UPDATE
Room coming along nicely, in the final stages of training and machine verification, hoping to get the UKAS extension sent in March 2025...
Feb 251 min read
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INTRODUCTION
May I have 30 seconds of your time to introduce myself?. My name is Gary Harley, and I am the Managing Director of Fastener Testing...
Feb 111 min read
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Chemistry Update
Machine is in location and the process to start the results validation as become. We are hoping to get the Application into UKAS to add...
Jan 271 min read
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Merry Christmas
Fastener Testing Services wishes to express gratitude to all of our customers for their orders and support over the past year. At...
Dec 4, 20241 min read
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OES Update
ARL Machine delivered and being installed ready for result validation The ARL 3460, is a multi-channel optical emission spectrometer, ...
Dec 4, 20241 min read
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OES Room, Building Underway
We hope the OES machine will be delivered in December, allowing us to begin the validation process.
Nov 28, 20241 min read
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Ontime Delivery
Being a family business, we believe we are in a great position to meet all our customer demands So when a customer rings up and asks for...
Nov 28, 20241 min read
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UKAS Audit
Gary Harley, would like to thank all the staff who were recently involved in the UKAS audit. A couple of niggly findings, but overall...
Nov 27, 20241 min read
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FURTHER GROWTH
Due to the successful growth of the business, including the the extension to scope to include the metallurgical testing over the last 12...
Nov 15, 20241 min read
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New Starter
FTS, would like to announce and welcome John Malpass, to our team. John is a vastly experienced metallurgist having spent the last 6...
Aug 20, 20241 min read
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Extension to Scope Granted
FTS are proud to announce we have been granted UKAS accreditation to ISO 17025 for the following tests Depth of Decarburisation, (Optical...
Jul 21, 20241 min read
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Metallurgical Lab
The expansion of FTS to include our Metallurgical Lab, is coming along nicely, all the equipment is now in place and calibrated & ...
May 8, 20241 min read
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New Starters
Fastener Testing Services are Delighted to have Craig Easton & Dave Skeldon join our team. Between them they have over 45 years of...
Apr 15, 20241 min read
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