Latest news from Kiwa

Kiwa has today announced that it is expanding its global presence, following an agreement with Element Materials Technology (“Element”), through the addition of NQA (USA, UK and India), the management systems certification division of BM Trada (UK), Unitek (USA), the technical services division of Trialon (USA), and the remaining 50% stake in SNQA, a joint venture partner (China). These businesses bring Kiwa additional expertise across a wide variety of markets and throughout the global Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) sector.

Curious about the latest in PV quality assurance? Kiwa PVEL and Kiwa PI Berlin reveal essential strategies in their new white paper, Raising the Bar. Discover expert insights on testing protocols to ensure reliable, high-performance solar projects in today’s rapidly advancing landscape. Dive in and elevate your PV standards.

This National Food Safety Education Month, explore three simple ways to make a difference. Learn, donate, and raise awareness to help prevent foodborne illnesses and ensure a safer food supply for everyone.

Blaine Hunt, P. Eng., of T2 Utility Engineers, recently presented at the 2024 UESI Pipelines Conference on the use of AI in Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE). He discussed the challenges, ethical considerations, and the need for transparency and quality control when integrating AI into engineering practices.

In the realm of food safety, the market is flooded with various certification programs designed to guarantee the quality and safety of food and beverage products. The sheer multitude of choices can pose a daunting task for producers seeking the most suitable certification. This is where ASI Food Safety (member of Kiwa Group) comes in. ASI is here to simplify the complex landscape of certification.

PPI Quality & Engineering, a Kiwa company headquartered in Houston, Texas, provides professional engineering, quality assurance, and auditing services to the energy industry clients around the world. Read all about PPI’s evolution of energy services, and their services for the global supply chain in our latest article.

PI Berlin and PV Evolution Labs ( members of the Kiwa Group) will join forces at RE+ in Las Vegas, Nevada from the 11-14th of September. We invite you to visit booth #7433 and talk to representatives from both companies about the value and importance of properly managing quality in the solar industry.

Buyers around the world rely on PVEL’s Product Qualification Program (PQP), a series of extended reliability tests, to help inform procurement decisions. Learn more about the PQP program, and how it helps mitigate risk for the solar industry.

Next month from August 14th-16th, @ASI Food Safety is hosting a Virtual 3 Day PCQI Training, FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Food. This training is designed to provide professionals with the ability to develop and implement effective food safety plans, perform risk assessments, and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, such as the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) principles.

T2 Utility Engineers, member of the Kiwa Group, is celebrating 30 years of providing Subsurface Utility Engineering services. Thanks to the support of clients and the work of our outstanding team members, T2ue provides Subsurface Utility Engineering and related services for more than 2,000 projects each year from 26 offices in the United States and four offices in Canada.

Since 2019, Raba Kistner’s Cultural Resources team have been working on The Alamo, a historic Spanish mission and fortress founded in the 18th century, located in San Antonio, Texas. The objective of the project was to assess the condition of the Church and the Long Barrack, the oldest buildings on the Alamo historic site and where many Texian rebels made their last stand in the 1836 battle for Texas’ independence from Mexico.

Kiwa announced the merger with ASI LLC to strengthen Kiwa’s United States footprint significantly in providing Food, Feed & Farm certifications.

The revised ISO 27001 standard for information security has been published on 25 October 2022. The updated standard has been aligned with ISO 27002:2022 and includes some technical corrections.

As of 14 October 2022, Kiwa Group (Australia and North America) and CMW Geosciences have merged. CMW Geosciences joins the growing family of Kiwa businesses in the Asia-Pacific region including Construction Sciences, SureSearch, Trilab and Geochempet Services.

One of the ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to capture and store or use released CO₂. To do this efficiently and safely, additional knowledge is needed. Kiwa has invested in new facilities to investigate and test with high pressure CO₂.

While concrete applications of hydrogen are already fully operational, there is still much to be discovered about the properties of the gas. At Kiwa, materials expert Sjoerd Jansma is conducting research into the phenomenon of permeability.