Certify This: TÜV Rheinland Celebrates 140 Years

“For 140 years, people and companies around the globe have placed their trust in TÜV Rheinland because of our history, reliability and long-standing reputation in the industry,” said Gerhard Luebken, the chief regional officer and the president and chief executive officer of TUV Rheinland North America Holding Inc., TUV Rheinland of North America, Inc. (Boxborough, MA). “We keep our focus on serving customers, achieving success and developing safe and sustainable solutions for the challenges of today’s ever-changing markets.”

TÜV Rheinland maintains its services and technical testing up-to-date with the latest innovations and standards, which allows it to work with the most groundbreaking products on the market. The company combines new ideas, expertise and a strong global network to contribute to further development of products, services, systems and people, making them more competitive.

In addition to investing in and enhancing its existing capabilities, the company also makes strategic acquisitions and builds new laboratories to assure a leading position in important and emerging markets. For example, the company’s recent additions of railway and materials testing capabilities, combined with its already extensive in-house expertise, have made TÜV Rheinland a leading worldwide provider of such services. The company’s photovoltaic testing laboratory in Arizona is one of six such laboratories in the company’s global network, giving it a leadership position in the rapidly growing solar power industry. Additionally, the company’s recent commissioning of the new high-technology product testing facility in Arkansas has greatly expanded the company’s capabilities for consumer product safety and environmental testing capabilities.

The company maintains a has an annual revenue of $1.9 billion (€1.4 billion) that includes inspection of technical equipment, products and services, overseeing projects and helping to shape processes for a wide variety of companies through its worldwide network of approved labs, testing facilities and education centers. Since 2006, the company has been a member of the United Nations Global Compact to promote sustainability and combat corruption. www.tuv.com/us