BOC Further Expands Its ISO 17025 Accredited Network.Business Editors MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004 BOC's special gases plant in Port Allen, Louisiana The small city of Port Allen is the parish seat and governmental center of West Baton Rouge Parish, in the US State of Louisiana. Port Allen is located between Interstate 10 and US Highway 190 on the West bank of the Mississippi River. has received ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. accreditation for environmental, NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. traceable and natural gas mixtures. The internationally recognized ISO/IEC ISO/IEC International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ITU-T M 3000) 17025 certification from the American Association of Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA A2LA American Association for Laboratory Accreditation ) is the third such accreditation awarded to a BOC facility in the U.S. over the past 12 months. Previous accreditation was awarded to the company's Riverton, New Jersey Riverton is a Borough located in Burlington County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough had a total population of 2,759. Riverton was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on December 18, 1893, from portions of operation in March 2004 and its Royal Oak, Michigan Royal Oak is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a suburb of Detroit. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 60,062. It should not be confused with Royal Oak Charter Township, a separate community located nearby. plant in May 2003. The ISO 17025 standard is highly valued by customers in many of the industries that BOC serves, including the automotive and aerospace industries. Demand for ISO certification in petrochemical and environmental testing is on the increase. BOC expects the accreditation to reduce the required audit frequency of its plants, increase the global acceptance of its products, while ensuring conformance to QS-9000 and ISO- iso- or is- pref. 1. Equal; uniform: isobar. 2. Isomeric: isopropyl. 3. 16949 mandates for emission testing applications. The BOC Gases accreditation from The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) received last year at its Royal Oak facility was the first for any special gases company in the U.S. The ISO 17025 accreditation formally recognizes BOC's quality system for testing activities, as well as its technical competence in the determination of valid analytical test results. "To assure data integrity and minimize risk, our customers need to have confidence in their supplier's quality and competence," says John Long, national quality manager for BOC's special products. "In addition, this certification will translate into a lower total cost of ownership for our customers," Long added. "In combination with our ISO 9001:2000 certification, the ISO 17025 accreditation should demonstrate BOC's commitment to excellence in the production of calibration gases," notes Long. Established in 1978, A2LA is a non-profit, public service, membership society endorsed by multiple federal and state agencies for their programs of assessment, verification and accreditation of calibration and testing laboratories. Additionally, A2LA holds several mutual recognition arrangements with other laboratory accreditation systems within the United States and around the globe, resulting in recognition of BOC's ISO 17025 accreditation by more than forty (40) economies worldwide. In order to achieve accreditation, BOC was required to demonstrate to A2LA its technical competence in performing specific analytical testing of environmental and NIST traceable gas mixtures. BOC also was required to evidence a program for the maintenance and operation of a quality system that addresses and conforms to all elements of the international standard. The BOC Group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BOX), the worldwide industrial gases, vacuum technologies and distribution services company, serves two million customers in more than 50 countries. It employs 44,500 people and had annual sales of over $7 billion in 2003. Further information about The BOC Group may be obtained on the Internet at http://www.boc.com. |
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