International standards drive quality, reliability, and innovation in materials across a wide range of applications. From defining properties or purity requirements to setting guidelines for specific processes, they ensure consistent performance, support sustainability, and build global trust with users and business partners.

Top standards

Plastics — Determination of Charpy impact properties
Part 1: Non-instrumented impact test

Corrosion of metals and alloys — Accelerated testing involving cyclic exposure to salt mist, dry and wet conditions

Rubber products — Guidelines for storage

Textiles — Determination of total halogens in textile products — Combustion and ion chromatography (C-IC) method

Cosmetics — Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) — Guidelines on Good Manufacturing Practices

Textile fabrics — Burning behaviour — Determination of ease of ignition of vertically oriented specimens

Textile fabrics — Burning behaviour — Measurement of flame spread properties of vertically oriented specimens

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