Hi Grammar Geek,
Thank you sou much for your comments, they are very helpful!
Yes, they are indeed resume bullets (not sentences!) that are supposed to sum up the activities of the institute. Now, to answer your questions:
1. - test stands=a kind of tables endowed with various devices for performing tests (I found many occurences of the phrase on the net)
- various industrial branches ... that's all! They don't nention anything more about what these branches really are! Can't I leave it this way?
4. - to trade studies: I was intending to say: to commercialize some studies that the company has already carried out. Is it better to use "commercialise" instead?
I have another question: in the first "noun bullet" I used "plant" as a collective noun meaning "large machines and equipment". Shouldn't I use the singular then?
PS1: I know that the text sounds rather abstract and "cold"... Believe me, the same thing is available for the original.
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