Knowledgeable.
We harness vast amounts of data, information, and expertise to develop vital knowledge for those who rely on us.
Leveraging on our local expertise, APCER harness vast amounts of data and information, and develop them into vital knowledge for the benefit of professionals, businesses, or support the trade, regulatory, governmental organizations in our country. Through IQNET, this knowledge additionally fuels international initiatives and projects, aiming to bring benefits to global markets.
APCER has been in the certification business for more than 28 of years. On top of these, we have created an infrastructure to ensure reliability and recognition of people, products and services, such as supply chain audits, verification and training. We are a proud IQNET Member since 1996.
These long years of experience and continuous improvement are sending ripples of benefits to our global community - in forms of trustworthy cooperation, global recognition, and knowledge-sharing within IQNET:
IQNET is involved in a total of more than 60 executive, advisory, technical committees, working groups in stakeholder areas: 29 in international standardization activities (ISO); 25 in accreditation such as International Accreditation Forum (IAF), European Accreditation (EA), and Inter American Accreditation Cooperation (IAAC); five in scheme owners areas such as European Aerospace Quality Group, Food Safety Scheme Council, Smart Freight Centre; and three in relation with the quality infrastructure, such as with INetQI and UNIDO.
Ricardo Teixeira is representing IQNET in ISO/PC 250 Event Sustainability. Through this representation, our stakeholders benefit from the information that only our country or our network can provide, as well as allow us to make a contribution to the changes in the conformity assessment industry that may impact our clients.
Recently, Ricardo Teixeira has been appointed as IQNET Brand Manager for sustainable events management system area, responsible to assist IQNET and the market on information about available solutions, trends, events, and developments related on this specific field.
All this expertise is harnessed towards developing vital knowledge for you, and for others who rely on us. See more in our official IQNET Day 2024 website.
Why we mark IQNET Day
Celebrated every 11 November, IQNET Day highlights the importance of the network to the conformity assessment community.
Its worldwide representation through IQNET Association Partners has significantly strengthen the importance of certifiable management systems, products, processes and services apart from other types of conformity assessment activities - benefiting organizations, regardless of size and location - in improving their business processes as well as advancing on their competitiveness in the global marketplace.
By combining local expertise with global experiences and recognition, IQNET Association is one of the few organizations tapped to shape proactive policies and practices in terms of accreditation, standardization, scheme development, and quality infrastructure, both at a local, regional and international level.
First established in 1989 as EQNet, the network was later registered as IQNET - The International Certification Network (1990) to signify its presence worldwide. To date, IQNET has grown to 36 Partner certification bodies, and collectively providing conformity assessment services from more than 400 offices, through the competent and committed work of a team of more than 55’000.
