First foreign quality control company

Asociatia de Acreditare din Romania (Romanian Certification Association РRENAR) last week authorised the first foreign quality control company on the Romanian market, Soci̩t̩ G̩n̩rale de Surveillance Romania.

“A company certified by SGS will be a sound, serious and trust-worthy company, with reliable products,” RENAR official Ion Hohan stated on this occasion. SGS Romania offers services of qualitative and quantitative control, consulting in the fields of agriculture, mineral products, oil and petrochemical products, civil buildings, international certification (ISO, EN, GOST).

SGS Romania, member of the Swiss group Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), currently has nine territorial agencies in Romania as well as three laboratories, two in Constanta and one in Braila, whose fixed assets are worth around two million dollars.

SGS Romania, set up in 1992 with Swiss capital, posted 2.3 million dollars in turnover in 1999, and similar results are expected for this year, SGS Romania general manager Viorel Oproiu stated.

SGS Romania is specialised in supervising and monitoring international trade services for farming, mineral oil and petrochemical products, industrial equipment and common goods.

SGS group is a world leader in the field of technical services of control, testing and certification and operates in more than 140 countries through its network of subsidiaries and laboratories, employing more than 36,000 persons. SGS derives yearly revenues of about two billion dollars.