Solar Atmospheres of Michigan achieves Nadcap accreditation for laboratory

Solar Atmospheres in Chesterfield, Mich.

Solar Atmospheres of Michigan has achieved Nadcap AC7101/4 accreditation for its captive metallography laboratory. The accreditation will allow the Chesterfield, Mich., plant to continue testing for microhardness, surface contamination, intergranular oxidation, and grain size—tasks that previously were completed at the Warren, Mich., facility. The plant also will add metallographic preparation equipment and metallography software to expand its R&D capabilities and assist in new product development.

“This was the next step in moving operations from Warren to Chesterfield,” said Plant Metallurgist Greg Scheuring. “To limit downtime and maintain on-time delivery, we gave ourselves a week to make the move and conduct the audit. It was an extremely abbreviated period time for such a task but personnel at both facilities pulled together to make it happen.”