TÜV SUD AG, the parent company of TÜV SÜD America, recently acquired two German companies, a move that will allow it to extend its services in the chemical, pharmaceutical and process industries.

Effective Oct. 1, the materials technology unit of R&M Industrieservice Höchst Spezialitäten GmbH & Co. will merge with TÜV SÜD Chemical Services GmbH, TÜV’s European chemical services provider. R&M is based in Frankfurt, Germany, and is a provider of regional technical services for the process industry. Also in October, TÜV SÜD will take over the remaining shares in SIGNUM Gesellschaft für Anlagensicherheit mbH, further strengthening the company’s expertise in chemical, pharmaceutical and process industry regulatory supervision and inspection.

“The transfer of this field of activity to TÜV SÜD Chemical Services marks an important step which was necessary to continue effectively satisfying the requirements of the changing testing and inspection market,” says Joachim Kreysing, R&M managing director. “Additionally, this merger will give rise to new cooperative opportunities along the entire life cycle of process engineering plants and installations.”

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