In-Lab & Onsite Calibration Services in Kittery, ME

No. Tra-Cal's ISO/IEC 17025:2017, ANAB-accredited laboratory is located at 8577 Atlas Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. We serve Kittery, Kittery Point, and the wider Seacoast from that lab through prepaid ship-in calibration with a typical 5-business-day turnaround, plus scheduled onsite mobile-lab visits when an instrument population justifies the trip. There is no Tra-Cal facility in Maine, and we will not imply otherwise.

Kittery sits roughly 520 highway miles northeast of Gaithersburg, far outside our Mid-Atlantic pickup-and-delivery radius, so prepaid ship-in is the standard path. We send prepaid shipping labels in both directions, calibrate in about five business days, and return every instrument with a NIST-traceable certificate. A dedicated account manager sequences the work so a shop does not lose an entire tool crib at once.

Yes, for the general-purpose test and measurement instrumentation that industrial work depends on: torque wrenches and transducers, micrometers, calipers, bore and depth gauges, dial indicators, pressure and vacuum gauges, multimeters, insulation resistance testers, oscilloscopes, and temperature instruments used for weld preheat and heat treatment. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard occupies 278 acres on Seavey's Island in Kittery and is the Navy's oldest continuously operating shipyard, with work today centered on the overhaul, repair, refueling, and modernization of submarines. Work performed inside naval nuclear propulsion controlled programs carries its own government-specified calibration requirements, so we scope against your program's controlling documents rather than assuming our standard accreditation is sufficient on its own.

We cover 03904 in Kittery and 03905 in Kittery Point, and extend through southern York County to Eliot (03903), South Berwick (03908), and York (03909). Coverage also reaches across the Piscataqua River into Portsmouth, New Hampshire (03801-03804) by way of the Piscataqua River Bridge on Interstate 95, the Memorial Bridge on US Route 1, and the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge on the US Route 1 Bypass.

Yes. Physical and dimensional calibration is one of our accredited disciplines, and shipyard and heavy-industrial customers tend to present it in quantity rather than one instrument at a time. Torque tooling in particular carries short intervals because it drifts with use, so we schedule those populations in staggered batches and keep the calibration history in an asset database instead of leaving a shop to track certificates by hand.

Yes. Across the river at Pease, the New Hampshire Air National Guard's 157th Air Refueling Wing flies the KC-46A Pegasus, which it first received in 2019, alongside the active-duty 64th Air Refueling Squadron, and Pease International Tradeport hosts hundreds of businesses on the former Air Force base. That mix generates RF/microwave, electronic, timing/frequency, and physical/dimensional calibration demand, all of which fall inside our accredited scope.

Tra-Cal is accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 by ANAB. Our procedures reference ANSI Z540-1 and Z540.3, and every certificate is NIST-traceable. That documentation package supports customers carrying AS9100, ISO 13485, ISO 9001, and FDA 21 CFR Part 820 obligations, and it is the level of evidence auditors and government contracting officers expect to see.

Yes. We repair equipment from more than 100 manufacturers and can supply replacements when a repair is not economical. If a unit arrives out of tolerance we quote the repair before proceeding, then calibrate and certify it once the work is finished, so one shipment covers diagnosis, repair, and return to service rather than three separate transactions.