PICA Corp.’s story begins with its founder, Dave Russell, growing up in England in the 1960s and hating his banking job.
“I was just not cut out for it,” Russell says.He received advice about getting involved in a trade instead, and in his first job at English Electric, he had his first experience with nondestructive testing — i.e. X-ray, ultrasonic and eddy current methods — doing inspections of nuclear submarine parts.Now, all these years later with Canadian-based PICA Corp. — standing for Pipeline Inspection and Condition Analysis — Russell has further developed that expertise, establishing a successful niche manufacturing and deploying
