NTS (News - Alert) is a company that has been in the product certification business for more than five decades. Capable of providing official conformity assessment and certification services for a vast array of standards and requirements covering numerous industries and product types, the company opens a large network of formally accredited test laboratories. The company’s certification services cover everything from product safety to electromagnetic compatibility.

Recently, the company announced that it was selected by the USNAP Alliance as its exclusive testing and certification lab partner. Apart from certification testing, NTS will also come up with a test tool to help in the development and certification testing of USNAP certified products that comply with the CEA-2045 Modular Communication Interface (MCI) standard.

The USNAP Alliance was established to offer manufacturers with a standard communications interface between consumer electronics products. Those include meters, in-home displays programmable communication thermostats and major load appliances, such as electric water heaters, HVAC, washing machines, and pool pumps, the company stated in a press release.

“NTS has worked extensively and built valuable relationships with manufacturers and utilities over the past several years in the Smart Energy and Smart Grid markets," said NTS CEO William McGinnis in a press release released by the company. "The addition of the USNAP certification program to our capabilities is yet another example of our commitment to the rapidly expanding energy market.”

Recently, the company also announced that it acquired all the outstanding shares of stock of privately-held Garwood (News - Alert) Laboratories Inc. Garwood is a full-service product certification lab for the commercial, defense, space, medical, aviation, and transportation industries. Based in Southern California, it is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of NTS and currently has two Southern California locations: one in Pico Rivera in Los Angeles County, and the other in San Clemente in south Orange (News - Alert) County, within close proximity to San Diego County.

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