Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
PMTC, which was originally founded within the Philips electronics organization, provides specialist testing facility for games and multimedia, DVD video and hardware products.
The company has team of testers located in offices in London, Paris, Hamburg and Belgium.
The acquisition shows how Catalis is continuing to diversify its QA solutions in areas outside its core DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray home entertainment system testing market.
Testronic, which is based in Burbank, California, said the merger would consolidate its status as the world’s leader for QA for home entertainment DVD industry and would help the company to grow into other digital media testing markets like games.
PMTC will add testing services for PC and online games, mobile applications, education and e-learning software and localization testing for popular games consoles.
PMTC’s revenue for 2006 is expected to be around $4.3m. The company is also expected to return a pre-tax profit of $1m.
The new organization will operate from offices in the UK, Belgium, Poland and California.
