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Stellenbosch - South Africa
MLS Test Systems Pty Ltd, was founded in 1998. In 2004 it was registered as a limited company with Johan Müller as president. The directors of the company have extensive experience in electro – mechanical design and pavement engineering. Prof Fred Hugo Fellow of South African Academy of Engineering , has forty years of accelerated pavement testing experience and extensive project management experience of more than twenty years. During this time he was co-owner of a large engineering company that employed more than 400 engineers at the time.
The main purpose of MLS is to develop and manufacture research and test equipment for the road and airport pavement industry. The cooperative research of the directors had previously lead to the registration of a patent for the MLS technology in the field of accelerated pavement testing (APT) in 1991. Shortly thereafter the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). commissioned the development of a full-scale APT machine (TxMLS), based on the patented MLS technology. A five year research programme with the TxMLS followed with Fred Hugo as Project Manager.
Fred Hugo's experience of forty years in the field of APT served as the basis of the initiative to embark on the manufacturing of APT test equipment. Thus far thirteen MMLS3 systems have been manufactured and exported to the USA , Europe and China. MLS Test Systems has been involved in more than twenty APT research projects since its founding. The projects were located in southern Africa, Europe and the United States. The findings have been widely published.
The office of MLS Test Systems Pty Ltd is located in Stellenbosch with a support staff of ten persons. The company has the benefit of working in close association with the research institutes at the University of Stellenbosch where both directors were on the staff for a long time.
