Organisation

QUALANOD
Association for Quality Control in the Anodizing Industry.  QUALANOD, P.O. Box 1507, CH – 8027 Zurich, Switzerland.

Quality label
Mark registered on 2 October 1974 with the Federal Office for Copyrights and Patents (reg. no. 272069) and entered on 21 October 1974 in the International Trademarks Register (no. 409951) by the Association for Quality Control in the Anodizing Industry (QUALANOD), Zurich.

Secretariat
ARCO Association Management AG, Tödistrasse 42, CH – 8002 Zurich, Switzerland.

Members of QUALANOD
Membership is open to all representative national or international associations of anodizers that have entered into a general licence agreement with QUALANOD.

QUALANOD’s bodies

  • General Assembly
  • President
         Peter Watts
  • Vice President
        Ernst Weigl
  • Executive Committee
        OEVA, Austria: Ernst Weigl
        QUALUBEL, Belgium: Philip Hilven
        QUALISINO, China: Jerry Li
        ADAL, France: Mélanie Grammaticopoulos
        VOA, Germany: Dr. Alexa Becker
        AAG NPC, Greece: Ellie Ganakou
        AFMSZ, Hungary: Imre Feher
        QUALITAL, Italy: Irene Marcolungo
        AMELAQ, Mexico: Montserrat Rios
        QUALION, Netherlands: Ralph Bot
        QUALIPOL, Poland: Arkadiusz Ptak
        APAL, Portugal: Antonio Sequeira
        AEA, Spain: Gonzalo de Olabarria
        VSA, Switzerland: none
        AYID, Turkey: Dr. Metin Yilmaz
        QUALANOD UK, Great Britain: Peter Watts
        QMEA, Middle East: Azeem Khan
        Direct Licensees: none
  • Technical Committee
        OEVA, Austria: Ernst Weigl
        QUALUBEL, Belgium: Philip Hilven
        QUALISINO, China: Jerry Li
        ADAL, France: Mélanie Grammaticopoulos
        VOA, Germany: Jörg Steinkemper
        AAG NPC, Greece: Giannis Tsoulfaidis
        AFMSZ, Hungary: Imre Feher
        QUALITAL, Italy: Irene Marcolungo 
        AMELAQ, Mexico: Montserrat Rios
        QUALION, Netherlands: Remco Baartmans
        QUALIPOL, Poland: Arkadiusz Ptak
        APAL, Portugal: Antonio Sequeira
        AEA, Spain: Joan Serret
        VSA, Switzerland: none
        AYID, Turkey: Dr. Metin Yilmaz
        QUALANOD UK, Great Britain: Robin Furneaux
        QMEA, Middle East: Abdul Mobin
        Direct Licensees: none
  • Label Committee
        Jerry Li, Mélanie Grammaticopoulos, Ellie Ganakou, Rolando Ragazzini, Metin Ylmaz and Robin Furneaux
  • Auditor
  • Secretariat
        General Secretary:     Sergio Marchionni

General licence holder Organisation that may grant QUALANOD sub-licences to anodizing plants. Such organisations include national associations and QUALANOD.

Sub-licence holder (licensee) Anodizing plant authorized to use the quality label.

Testing institute Organisation that is accredited under ISO/IEC 17025 and approved by QUALANOD to be responsible for inspecting the anodizing plants of licensees. Inspectors are nominated by testing institutes. The testing institutes come together as QUALISURFAL to share experiences and organise inter-laboratory round-robin testing.