DIN CERTCO is the certification organisation of TÜV Rheinland Group and DIN, the German Institute for Standardization. It is highly regarded at home and abroad for its independence, neutrality, competence and more than 30 years experience in the field.
Standards are indispensable instruments in ensuring safety technology, in protecting health, the environment, and customer interests, generally. They play a vital part in the national economy and lay the foundations of free exchange of goods and services.
DIN, as other standards bodies, maintains a comprehensive collection of technical rules that sustains the efficient manufacture, testing, and assessment of products. DIN promotes the application of standards by its activities in the field of conformity assessment.
With its network of partners, DIN CERTCO offers certification services that adapt flexibly to specific requirements. As a result, the proof of conformity provides exactly matches the scope deemed necessary.
Testing and assessment can accordingly take various forms: from the supplier's declaration of conformity to third-party assessment, from prototype-testing to type examination, or the assessment of a quality or environmental management system.
Testing - Assessment - Surveillance
The impartial demonstration of safety - quality - fitness for use.
In order to document the functional efficiency of our certification system we have had ourselves either accredited or recognized both in the voluntary and in the regulatory sector by independent bodies from inside and outside Germany.
As a certification body and modern services company we have to meet the challenge of our competitors every single day. The quality of our processes and of their results and the satisfaction and trust of our clients are essential factors in our commercial success. This also extends, in addition to our certification activities, to the functions of sales and the development of new certification schemes.
It is not possible to store, distribute, or sell many products, e.g. foodstuffs without packaging. It is therefore impossible to imagine daily life without it. Packaging is made up of several logistic units from several product units or bulk goods, for example, without which transport or sale is not possible.
Today, packaging is significantly more than the wrapping around a product. It fulfils key functions. It protects the contents, guarantees more effective storage and transport, often serves as an information or application carrier and is more environmentally friendly, recyclable or even biologically. Ecological aspects are playing an increasingly important role.
The DIN certification mark and compostability marks have already shown themselves to be effective guides to these special products. The marks shows the the difference.
DIN CERTCO operates a certification scheme for compostable products made of biodegradable materials and licenses the use of the corresponding Mark developed by European Bioplastics (the former IBAW Interest Group for Biodegradable Materials).
Certification is here an integral part of an industrial recycling system. It enables compostable products to be identified by a unique mark and channelled for recovery of their constituent materials in specially developed processes. The Compostability Mark thus conveys product information to waste-disposal plant operators and product image to consumers.
A certfication can be conducted according to the following well international accpeted standards:
Depending on the properties and composition of the materials, intermediates, biodegradable additives or final products, the following tests may be necessary:
These tests ensured that, among other things, no heavy metals enter the soil and the compost quality is not adversely affected.
Materials, additives and intermediates can be registered.
Any products that enter the market can be certified. For example, they may consist of materials that have already been registered. The right to use the Compostable Mark will be granted. It is ensured that compostability is tested in an economically efficient manner. By structuring the certification system in registration and certification, testing costs are kept to a minimum.
Product samples are regularly checked to ensure the product’s conformity with the originally certified components.
After successful assessment by DIN CERTCO a certificate and the right to use the respective DIN certification mark together with an individual registration number for a fixed period of time specified in the certification scheme is awarded.
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