(Intertek: Houston) -- Intertek, a global provider of quality and safety solutions serving a wide range of industries, has expanded its analytical testing services to materials and industrial products clients in the United States with a new laboratory in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The new facility is called Intertek Analytical Sciences Americas (ASA).

Intertek will provide high-end expert analytical laboratory services from the ASA lab to a wide range of industries and markets, as part of a long-term laboratory outsourcing agreement with Air Products, an industrial gases company, headquartered in Allentown, serving the industrial, energy, technology, and health care markets.

The laboratory has significant expertise and state-of-the-art instrumentation in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), microscopy, spectroscopy, chromatography, surface science, and other analytical techniques used by clients for research and development, quality control, failure analysis, and trouble-shooting needs and support.

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