27 May 2010 - Petrochina visits EffecTech UK – Representatives from Petrochina visited the EffecTech head office in the UK today. The visitors included the President of Petrochina, Dr Huang Liming and several of his management team. The Petrochina visitors were accompanied by Dr Gregor Friedrichs a consultant from the Dusseldorf based company Competence Engineering. The visit was organised to allow the Chinese visitors to understand how the UK’s natural gas transmission and distribution system operates, focusing particularly on the key metering issues across the entire network. Presentations from key experts in the field were given by Dr Dave Lander, formerly National Grid Gas and Chris Cowper along with other members of the EffecTech team.

January 2010 - EffecTech are amongst the final three nominees for the Sentinel Business of the year award 2009. This premier sector award requires the nominees to have demonstrated outstanding success during the last financial year and includes exceptional growth, development of services and products. The award will go to the business that has not only increased its own potential but also has had a positive impact on the economy of the region as a whole. The awards ceremony will take place at the Moat House Hotel in Stoke-on-Trent on Tuesday 23 March. 

January 2010 - Following a successful audit by BSI, EffecTech is now an ISO 9000 registered company, the official registration date was 23 November 2009.  

October 2009 - First Calibration Gas Order for Egypt

EffecTech have secured their first calibration gas order from Egypt this week. This order for 10 calibration gases was gained through EffecTech being recommended by a UK subsidiary of the Egyptian company

September 2009 - Record delivery time

A new record has been set by the calibration laboratory in the UK. An urgent order for ten ISO 17025 calibration gases for a client in Vietnam has been manufactured, calibrated, labelled and packed in 8 working days.  

31 March 2009 - Effectech wins Sentinel small business of the year award 2008

EffecTech Ltd should, as they say, be cooking on gas having won the Business Initiative-backed Small Business of the Year Award.

The Uttoxeter company has a crucial role in deciding how much is paid for natural gas by large-scale users, dealers, and – ultimately – homes and factories using it or electricity from gas-fired power stations. Effectech’s business development director Paul Holland said: "It is a very prestigious award and we are really glad to win."

24 March 2009 - EffecTech has won a prestigious contract to supply GAIL India Ltd with 48 ISO 17025 calibration gases.

This will provide internationally traceable measurements of natural gas quality on the HBJ pipeline in India. The contract was awarded today by GAIL India Ltd following a tendering process which started in October 2008.

The EffecTech gases will be used to calibrate a large number of process gas and laboratory instruments providing GAIL India Ltd with state-of-the-art accuracy for their natural gas quality measurements.