Management buy out NDT

NDT Inspection and Testing has been acquired by its management team from its former owner Royal Dutch Shell.

NDT Inspection and Testing has been acquired by its management team from its former owner Royal Dutch Shell.

With its headquarters in Queensferry and with operating sites in Worcester, Sittingbourne and Caerphilly, NDT Testing and Inspection is one of the largest independent inspection service providers in the UK and provides laboratory testing services and on-site industrial NDT.

The management team is led by Chris Aylward and Bill Browne.

Managing Director Aylward has many years senior management experience in the services sector within Shell, which acquired the company from the original founders in 2002.

Browne boasts over 30 years experience in the NDT sector and was a Group Head with AEA Technology and MD of AEA Sonomatic and Cats International before becoming an independent consultant ten years ago.

Aylward said: "Over the past three years under Shell's ownership and investment, we have established a platform for the future development of the business, which is expanding at the rate of 25% per annum".

"We offer 17 fully functional x-ray bays and staffing levels have been increased with the recruitment of qualified and experienced personnel, together with the retraining and requalification of existing staff".

Browne added: "Apart from our unrivalled radiographic facilities, which are primarily of interest to the aerospace and automotive sectors and are continually being uprated, we also offer NDT technology for industrial applications, in disciplines from ultrasonics to eddy current testing".

NDT Inspection and Testing is UKAS- and Nadcap-accredited and operates from operating sites throughout the UK.

It is a centre of excellence for radiography, advanced ultrasonic imaging and many more traditional inspection services and has been continuously trading for over 35 years.

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