PTS Group supports safety and certification for global heavy lifting company
06/05/2026
PTS Group, an established family firm and non-destructive testing (NDT) company based in Stafford, is working with Mammoet, a major engineered heavy lifting and transport company, headquartered in the Netherlands, to ensure safety, certification and compliance.
The companies have been working together for over 20 years and PTS has now begun the mammoth task of testing and inspecting around 500 items of equipment.
The work will take many years to complete and will ensure that Mammoet is compliant with all certification requirements, legislation and regulation for the work it does across energy and infrastructure sectors.
Ed Roe, Director at PTS Group, said: “We have begun the huge task of supporting Mammoet in the testing and inspecting of their auxiliary equipment.
“We are thrilled the well-known worldwide company chose PTS to carry out this mammoth task and are hard at work on the project, testing the most critical components first.
“The ongoing quality and maintenance checks on all their auxiliary equipment will help Mammoet to maintain standards and ensure safety going forward while supporting the expansion and continued development of PTS Group as well.
“We will be testing the equipment on site in the yard and workshops at Mammoet’s depot near Stafford using various NDT methods to update certification and continually ensure the quality of the welds.”
PTS is completing ultrasonic testing (UT), magnetic particle testing (MPT) and eddy current testing (ECT) for Mammoet, having worked together over many years on production and manufacturing repair work to components of the company’s heavy lift equipment.
Recent projects the two companies have collaborated on include the Lawley Middleway Viaduct in Birmingham for the HS2 project in England, where Mammoet handled the movement of a 1631 tonne bridge that was constructed at the roadside and moved it into place on site.
Mark Sadler, Managing Director at Mammoet UK, said: “This ongoing quality and maintenance testing is an important task for us to ensure the quality of our vast auxiliary equipment fleet and we had no hesitation in choosing PTS Group to complete this project for us.
“Their proximity to our fabrication workshop in Staffordshire provides the perfect location for this vital testing to be mobilised from and the scope they are completing will ensure that our equipment is safe to use on projects across the range of infrastructure sectors we service.
“Our two companies have worked together for a number of years and we have always had a professional and first-class relationship, ensuring our customers get the very best service on time and in the knowledge that equipment is compliant.”
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| Ed Roe (left) and Steve Baldwin, Directors of PTS Group |
Mammoet has broken a string of world records for the heaviest structures lifted and transported. The company engineers, builds and operates a fleet of equipment including the SK6000, which is said to be the world’s strongest land-based crane, and well over 4000 axle lines of self-propelled modular transporter, the global industry standard for heavy transportation, which it co-created in 1983.
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| Mammoet at work on tunnel boring machine (TBM) removal for HS2 at Green Park for Herrenknecht |
PTS Group also works with businesses in the oil & gas, construction and nuclear sectors, as well as many more industries, and carries out testing from its Stafford base as well as working on sites across the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and Bahrain.
The company was founded by Technical Director Steve Baldwin’s father in 1995 and is currently experiencing a period of growth, doubling its workforce to cope with demand.
www.ptsgroup.co.uk
