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eco-INSTITUT accreditation switched to current DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018
eco-INSTITUT has been an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited testing laboratory for many years. In this regard, the German Accreditation Body certifies the technical competence and quality of our testing services. With immediate effect our accreditation is based from now on on the new DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018.
Technical paper: Measurement uncertainty in the evaluation of measurement results
No measured value is exact; every laboratory result also contains measurement uncertainty – the true value may therefore be either a little higher or lower. How does eco-INSTITUT deal with this? How is it decided whether a specification (e.g. from the eco-INSTITUT-Label) is met or not, especially when results...
eco-INSTITUT with new company logo and better differentiation between testing and certification body
eco-INSTITUT is modernising its appearance: The company now has a new company logo. eco-INSTITUT has opted for a different design in order to enable a better differentiation between the logo of the company’s own quality label, the eco-INSTITUT-Label (the design of which remains unchanged), and the company’s logo.
European Coatings Journal: “Seeking a uniform regulation. Regulations for VOC emissions from coatings.”
For the current issue of European Coatings Journal (03/2019) Daniel Tigges, managing director of eco-INSTITUT, contributed in cooperation with specialised journalist Karin Roth the article: “Seeking a uniform regulation. Regulations for VOC emissions from coatings”.
DIM and eco-INSTITUT pool competences in the fields of furniture and pollutant testing
Cologne. German Institute for Furniture Technology Rosenheim (Deutsches Institut für Möbeltechnik – DIM) and eco-INSTITUT Cologne pool their expertises in the fields of furniture and pollutant testing. This was announced today by the two institutions during Cologne furniture fair imm cologne.
DIN EN 16516: new analytical reference method for formaldehyde tests of wood-based materials according to Chemical Prohibition Ordinance (ChemVerbotsV)
On November 26th, 2018, German Federal Gazette (BAnz AT 26.11.2018 B2 – in German only) published DIN EN 16516, a new reference method for measuring formaldehyde emissions from coated and uncoated wood based on Annex 1 of the Chemical Prohibition Ordinance (ChemVerbotsV).
Federal Environment Agency: Publication of AgBB scheme 2018
August 6th, 2018, German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt – UBA) published the updated AgBB scheme which is in connection with the principles of the German Institute for Structural Engineering (Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik – DIBt) the relevant standard for testing and health evaluation of volatile organic compounds (VVOC, VOC...