International standards drive quality, reliability, and innovation in materials across a wide range of applications. From defining properties or purity requirements to setting guidelines for specific processes, they ensure consistent performance, support sustainability, and build global trust with users and business partners.

Insights

Carbon footprint: Measuring and reducing our environmental impact

Companies are increasingly becoming aware of their carbon footprint and its intrinsic link to energy use. But exactly what is a carbon footprint, and how can renewable energy reshape the business landscape?

Quality management: The path to continuous improvement

There are many misconceptions about what a quality management system (QMS) does. Let’s delve into what a QMS is, what it should look like and why your company absolutely needs one.

The circular economy: building trust through conformity assessment
Standards and conformity assessment provide assurance on aspects of the circular economy including product lifetime and recyclability, safety and efficiency.

Top standards

Preparation of steel substrates before application of paints and related products — Visual assessment of surface cleanliness
Part 1: Rust grades and preparation grades of uncoated steel substrates and of steel substrates after overall removal of previous coatings

Cosmetics — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients
Part 2: Criteria for ingredients and products

Plastics moulded parts — Tolerances and acceptance conditions

Compressed air
Part 1: Contaminants and purity classes

Plastics — Determination of tensile properties
Part 1: General principles

Plastics — Determination of the melt mass-flow rate (MFR) and melt volume-flow rate (MVR) of thermoplastics
Part 1: Standard method