The Element Materials Technology Group is one of the world’s leading global providers of testing, inspection, and certification services for a diverse range of products, materials, and technologies in advanced industrial supply chains where failure in use is not an option.
Headquartered in London, UK, Element’s c.9,000 scientists, engineers, and technologists, work across a global network of over 270+ locations, support customers from early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals, and into production ensuring their products are safe and sustainable, and achieve market access.
In 2021, Element set out its new, industry leading environmental commitments, adopting science-based targets and committing to net zero emissions across its entire global business by 2035. These environmental commitments follow Element’s achievement of the highest ESG ranking in the testing, inspection and certification industry from Sustainalytics, a global leader in ESG research and data.
Our journey began in 1996, in the industrial city of Pithampur, located in the heartland of India in Madhya Pradesh. We embarked on our entrepreneurial journey with a mission to design and develop top-of-the-line seating and interior products for commercial vehicles in India.
With a sizeable engineering and development team, we have emerged as India's largest integrated commercial vehicle seating and interiors company; offering end-to-end solutions for Indian and international commercial vehicle OEMs across ICE and EV
spaces.
With a diversified group of companies, we are expanding our business through strategic partnerships to offer a wide range of products and services across industries.
We are India's leading automotive interiors, seating systems, EV components, railway seating and speciality vehicles company.
Accuride International is the largest company in the world dedicated to the design and manufacture of precision movement. Our in-house team of engineers and Accuride-designed manufacturing equipment make us the leader in movement solutions.
You’ll find Accuride products in business and home office furniture, residential furniture and cabinetry, store fixtures, medical equipment, ATM’s, cash drawers, copy machines, toolboxes, appliances, electronic racks, and more.
Accuride began as a small tool and die shop in 1958 in South Gate, California, producing top quality slides for tape drives and copy machines. In the late 1960s, Accuride developed ball bearing slides for metal office furniture. The company's design engineers then took on the wood furniture market, developing features such as breathing tabs to absorb tolerances in wood products.
Today, still privately held, Accuride has more than 1 million square feet of manufacturing space, with facilities located in the United States, Mexico, Germany, UK, Japan, and China.