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Legal Metrology | NIST
A pound is a pound is a pound, right? Luckily, when you buy something in the United States, you can be extremely confident that you are getting the quantity you paid for, whether it’s a […]
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Heads Up, High School Class of ’19: New Measurement Unit Definitions Are Coming
From NIST News January 23, 2017 Next year, scientists expect to change the way we define the basic units with which we measure our universe. An article by scientists at the National Institute of Standards […]
Trescal Acquires Exphil Calibration Labs Inc.
Paris, January 3rd 2017. Trescal, the international specialist in calibration services, announces the acquisition of Exphil Calibration Labs Inc., a calibration services provider based in Long Island (New York). The transaction consolidates Trescal’s geographical footprint […]
Calibration of equipment: Govt asks pollution watchdogs to get their instruments calibrated to maintain accuracy – Times of India
Admitting that most of the pollution measuring and biomedical equipment are “not calibrated as per standards in the country which affects quality of the measured data”, the Centre has asked pollution watchdogs – CPCB and […]
Noise, Temperature, and the New SI | NIST
NIST has recently made substantial improvements to its Johnson-noise thermometry system, which is playing a vital role in the worldwide effort to determine the value of a key physical constant in time for the impending […]
Electro Rent Corporation to Acquire Microlease
LOS ANGELES / LONDON – 16 November 2016 – Electro Rent Corporation today announced it entered into an agreement to acquire Microlease from Lloyds Development Capital. The transaction is expected to close during Q1 2017. […]
Primary standards lab receiving upgrade – The Redstone Rocket: Military Scene
After years of planning, a course for the construction of a $30 million renovation to the Army’s only primary standards laboratory facility is moving forward at Redstone Arsenal. The customer is USATA – which stands […]
World’s first LNG research and calibration facility – LNG
Abstract from paper by VSL, SP, IMS, NEL, and Justervesenet: A Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) flowmeter research and calibration facility is being built in Rotterdam by the Dutch metrology institute VSL. This cryogenic test loop […]