East Hartford, CT, November 3, 2010: QuEST Global Engineering, a leading pure play engineering services provider, is adding a new third floor with 8,000 square feet and space for 80 engineers to its East Hartford, Connecticut center dedicated to providing engineering services to Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company.
QuEST’s dedicated facility, is within two miles of Pratt & Whitney headquarters, and provides office space for more than 170 QuEST employees who serve Pratt & Whitney on aero engines design and project engineering services. With this expansion, QuEST will be able to continue to grow the valued services that it provides to Pratt & Whitney.
Ajit Prabhu, chief executive officer, QuEST; and Robert Harvey, senior vice president, Strategic Accounts, QuEST Global Engineering, inaugurated the QuEST facility expansion with Al Brockett, vice president Engineering-Module Centers, Pratt & Whitney; and Mahesh Patel, manager, Global Engineering Sourcing, Pratt & Whitney.
“QuEST Global has been a valued partner and we are delighted they are expanding their facility in East Hartford to provide us with the engineering services we require to meet the growing needs of our global aerospace customers,” said Al Brockett, vice president Engineering-Module Centers, Pratt & Whitney.
”The expansion of our dedicated center in East Hartford marks another milestone in our strategic partnership relationship with Pratt & Whitney. QuEST provides complete life-cycle integrated engineering services on both a local and global level,” said Robert Harvey, senior vice president, QuEST Global Engineering. “We will continue to provide a combination of functional and domain expertise through our Local-Global Delivery Model, to attain the highest level of customer satisfaction. This expansion will open up additional aerospace career opportunities and we look forward to aggressively growing our capabilities and services and the value we deliver to Pratt & Whitney.”
QuEST Global’s relationship with United Technologies and Pratt & Whitney dates back to 2002, when a dedicated engineering design team was first established in East Hartford. QuEST now serves five United Technologies divisions from 10 separate locations with more than 350 employees. QuEST’s East Hartford employees work on many key programs at Pratt & Whitney.
About QuEST Global Engineering:
QuEST Global Engineering is a diversified Engineering Services company, employing 2000 professionals across 13 global delivery centers. The company helps customers in aero engines, aerospace & defense, power generation, oil & gas, industrial machines, consumer goods and other verticals to cut product development and project costs, shorten lead times, extend capacity and maximize engineering resources availability by providing support across the complete product life cycle. We leverage our local presence and global reach to support engineering cost reduction initiatives for our customers.
About Pratt & Whitney:
Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries.
About QuEST Global
We are Quest Global. We’re in the business of engineering, but what we’re really building is a brighter future. It’s not just what we do, but why we do it that makes us different. We believe engineering has the unique opportunity to solve the problems of today that stand in the way of tomorrow. For 25 years, we have strived to be the most trusted partner for the world’s hardest engineering problems. As a global organization headquartered in Singapore, we live and work in 17 countries, with 56 global delivery centers, driven by 13,000+ extraordinary employees who make the impossible possible every day.
Quest Global brings deep industry knowledge and digital expertise to deliver end to end global product engineering services. We bring together technologies and industries alongside the contributions of diverse individuals and their areas of expertise to solve problems better, faster. This multi-dimensional approach enables us to solve the most important and large-scale challenges across the Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Energy, Hi-Tech, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Rail and Semiconductor industries.
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