Our research helps companies reach the moon and the depths of the ocean.

About Us

Our Valued Customers

Touchstone Research Laboratory is an award-winning supplier of materials testing, industrial problem solving, and outsourced R&D services to commercial and government customers. Over the past two decades, Touchstone has developed for numerous clients, a host of technologies which account for sales totaling hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

Large or Small – A Research Lab for All

We provide services to over 10 of the Fortune 100, dozens of the Fortune 500, and of course, numerous smaller companies looking to make their fortune. Overnight, you can have access to hundreds of pieces of lab and testing equipment, and the engineers, scientists, and PhD’s to solve your problems.

Spanning Numerous Industries

Our customer base includes many aerospace primes, automotive companies and their suppliers, chemical companies, construction, health care, military, mining, and many government agencies. Our research helps companies reach the moon and the depths of the ocean.

Evaluating Many Materials

Composites, metal matrix composites, titanium, steel, aluminum, super-alloys, plastics, foam, nanomaterials and coal are just a few of the numerous materials evaluated at Touchstone.

Below is a partial list of our many valued Customers & Partners:

  • 3M
  • Air Force Research Laboratory
  • Air Force
  • Alcan
  • Alcan Engineered Products
  • Alliant Techsystems (ATK)
  • Army
  • Bayer Material Science
  • Boeing
  • Century Aluminum
  • Ceralink
  • Clemson University
  • Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC)
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
  • Department of Energy (DoE)
  • Florida International University
  • General Dynamics
  • Gulfstream
  • Harrop Industries
  • Hexcel
  • Hitco Carbon Composites
  • Illinois Clean Coal Institute
  • Island Mould
  • LaBelle Nails
  • Leading Edge
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Marines
  • Matthews International
  • MDA
  • Mittal
  • National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC)
  • NAVSEA
  • Navy
  • North Carolina State University
  • Nova Tech
  • Ohio Coatings Company
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Pratt & Whitney
  • San Diego Composites
  • Severstal
  • Structural Composites
  • Texas A&M University
  • Thermex Thermatron
  • Troy Group
  • University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI)
  • University of Delaware
  • United Dairy
  • United Space Alliance (USA)
  • United Technologies
  • University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • Wellsville Foundry
  • West Liberty University
  • West Virginia University
  • Wheeling Corrugating
  • Wheeling Jesuit University
  • Wheeling-Nisshin
  • Ziegenfelder’s Ice Cream

Our purpose is to bring value to you.

Please contact us to see how we can support your testing program, develop a new product, or innovate a new process.