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How can quality help power performance? That is what November 12’s World Quality Day 2026, part of the global World Quality Week organized by the Chartered Quality Institute, asks us to explore. In this article, Maria Karlman, Head of Quality and Sustainability at Kiwa Sweden, explains how our focus on quality enables us to deliver consistent performance for our customers, as well as fueling collaboration, innovation, and a culture of continuous improvement.

Following a successful audit by Kiwa, Sloop- en Handelsbedrijf Doldersum B.V., specialized in demolition, metal trading and recycling, has achieved certification for ISO 14001, the CO2 Performance Ladder and WEEELABEX. This marks an important step for the family owned company in Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk, Netherlands, as it continues to develop its business and expand its activities.

Cyberattacks rarely impact a single company. Instead, the shockwaves are felt through the chain, impacting suppliers, technology providers, and other third parties. Recent high-profile information security incidents have highlighted this, with several affecting everything from online orders to the availability of products in stores. For Linda Porter, Principal Assessor, Information Security Management Systems at NQA, a Kiwa company, these incidents demonstrate why organizations are paying closer attention to how they manage their suppliers, and how ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for information security can help.

Two important developments have recently taken place in the fields of artificial intelligence, medical devices and quality management systems: the publication of Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 – Digital Omnibus on AI and the new edition of ISO 9001:2026. Discover more in this article.

I have seen that the demand to sustainable products and services has increased a lot over the last years and became a top priority topic for international governments, organizations and society. The Paris Agreement from 2016 is for me one of the biggest drivers towards serious changes concerning the climate. Over 170 countries agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit the global temperature. The market is asking for more sustainable production because the end consumers are demanding more sustainable products.

Yara Suomi, a supplier of fertilizers and environmental solutions, wanted to assess the condition of a concrete chimney at its sulfuric acid plant in Siilinjärvi. Using traditional methods, the inspection would have been a demanding task, requiring extensive scaffolding to be erected around the tall chimney. However, there was also an alternative: a new inspection method that would eliminate the need to work at height altogether.

Global Ethics Day, founded by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and now in its 13th year, invites organizations to reflect on the values and principles that shape how decisions get made. This year it falls on 21 October, with the theme “Re-centering Ethics.” For a testing, inspection, certification and consultancy company like Kiwa, impartiality is essential, and that puts ethics at the center of our work.

From 18 February 2027, electric vehicle, e-bike, e-scooter and large industrial batteries sold in the EU need a digital battery passport, a QR code that links to key data about each battery. Discover how Kiwa can help you comply on time, from assessing your readiness to creating and managing your passports with a platform built on Twintag technology.

Ensuring that everyone in our world has access to safe, nutritious food, while preserving the global food systems that produce it, is a job that's never finished. World Food Day 2026, marked on October 16 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), puts a spotlight on this challenge. This year’s theme, ‘Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow’, asks how innovation can help build a more resilient food system for the future. We spoke to Susan Mallin, Food Schemes Manager at Kiwa, about what this future may look like and why trust is more important than ever.

Corporify works with sensitive corporate data and has therefore paid close attention to cybersecurity from the outset. However, as the company began attracting larger clients and expanding internationally, this was no longer always enough. More and more clients explicitly asked for ISO 27001 certification. Corporify decided to pursue it and chose Vinçotte as its certification body. The process took around a year from initial idea to certification. Internally, it also helped make many processes clearer and more structured.

Discover the focus of Safety Week 2026, running from 5 to 9 October. This year, we introduce the Energy Wheel as a practical prompt to help colleagues recognize energy sources before work starts, especially during the Last-Minute Risk Assessment.

EEW Energy fromWaste Delfzijl B.V. recovers energy and raw materials from waste streams and was recently certified by Kiwa at Level 1 of the CO2 Performance Ladder version 4.0. This means that EEW has demonstrated that its CO2 management system meets the strengthened requirements of the updated Handbook 4.0 of the CO2 Performance Ladder. With this certification, EEW underlines its ambition to structurally monitor, achieve and safeguard its sustainability goals.

Hydrogen storage systems must perform safely and reliably under demanding operating conditions. Comprehensive testing plays a key role in verifying their durability, performance and compliance before they enter the market. To meet this demand, Kiwa ET has expanded its hydrogen testing infrastructure and can now perform standardized testing on hydrogen pressure tanks with volumes of up to 600 litres.

Medical device manufacturers operate in an increasingly complex regulatory environment. While compliance requirements such as the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) apply across the industry, the path to certification is rarely the same for every organization.

Sustainability plays an important role in the animal feed chain. For Denkavit, a global producer of young animal nutrition and feed ingredients, this is not a new development. The Dutch company has been working for many years on nutritional solutions that contribute to healthy animals and a future-proof livestock sector. By becoming the world's first animal feed organization to be certified by Kiwa according to the new GMP+ MI5.7 Feed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) standard, Denkavit is taking the next step in making the environmental impact of its products and processes transparent and demonstrable.

In recent years, NIS2 has mainly been about awareness, impact analyses and preparations. The phase has now begun in which organizations must not only make plans, but above all demonstrate that they’re actually implementing them. The question is no longer: ‘Do we need to do something with NIS2?’ but: ‘Can we demonstrate that we are managing our cyber risks?’.