Kiwa

We are Kiwa. With our certification, inspection, testing, training and consultancy services, we create trust in our customers' products, services, processes, (management) systems and employees.

We do so in a wide variety of markets segments, ranging from construction and energy supply to drinking water, healthcare, food, feed & farming. Areas of expertise include management systems, corporate social responsibility and lab testing, among many others.

We have clients in manufacturing and process industries, (business) services, public and private utilities, governments and international institutions.

Kiwa employs over 4,500 people in over 40 countries, mainly in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

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), Training and Consultancy. 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!

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), training and consultancy 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.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Kiwa operates at the heart of society: our aim is to create trust in people's health and safety at work and at home. We carry out our business in close collaboration with many stakeholders, from customers to suppliers, from our employees to our shareholders and society at large. Therefore, we recognise and appreciate the corporate social responsibility we have towards all these stakeholders, society and the environment. 

Kiwa's Services

Quality, safety, health, sustainability, efficiency, control - they all come down to trust. As an entrepreneur, you want to be able to create trust in your products, services, processes, (management) systems and employees. We are here to help you take the necessary steps, to help you evade and solve problems and to independently assess you through our Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) services. Adjacent to and stricty separated from those services, we also offer you training courses and expert consultancy in a wide variety of (international) markets and subjects.