Mission and vision

Kiwa wants to help companies and organisations go forward as an independent, impartial and innovative partner. You have the ambition and Kiwa has the knowledge to help you achieve progress. Kiwa’s core business lies in activities in Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) and Training. The specialists from Kiwa aim for a long-term relationship with you that is based on equality in order to help you improve your organisation, products, services, processes, management systems and employees. Thus, we aim to contribute to organisations being able to offer quality and adding value to society thanks to their reliability, safety, efficiency and sustainability. Trust, Quality, and Progress!

Kiwa Laboratory

Our mission

Kiwa creates trust by contributing to the transparency of the quality, safety and sustainability of products, services and organisations as well as of personal and environmental performance. Ambitious, Reliable and Engaged.

Our vision

Kiwa aims to be an autonomous global organization in Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) and training services, active in selected market niches worldwide. Thus, we aim to create trust.

Independence

Kiwa is strictly independent and not involved in manufacturing, trading or other activities that might endanger our impartiality. There is no external influence on our decisions or opinions regarding the outcomes of our own operational activities. Our management and personnel understand the crucial importance of objectivity and impartiality in carrying out certification, testing and inspection. We analyze our activities on a regular basis to identify possible conflicts of interest to ensure undisturbed objectivity and impartiality. Additionally, Kiwa is evaluated in a transparent way by several accreditation bodies, audited by external organizations and qualified by governmental bodies.

See our Corporate Code of Conduct (PDF)