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

Founding Members
The European Association for Surface Treatment on Aluminium (ESTAL), Zurich, and the European Aluminium, Brussels, are founding members of QUALANOD.

Associate Members
Companies and industry associations that fall into one of the following categories may be accepted as Associate Members by the QUALANOD General Assembly. Associate Members have the right to be informed of the Association’s activities except financing and the right to express an opinion via the Secretariat.

Licensees (“Direct Licensees”) located in a country or region without a General Licence Holder
Customers of anodizers
Suppliers to anodizers
Aluminium national associations
Other legitimate stakeholders

QUALANOD’s bodies

General Assembly
President
Philip Hilven
Vice President
Peter Watts
Executive Committee
   OEVA, Austria: Ernst Weigl
   QUALUBEL, Belgium: Philip Hilven
   QUALISINO, China: Jerry Li
   ADAL, France: Mélanie Grammaticopoulos
   VOA, Germany: Matthias Krämer
   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: Mansoor Ali Khan Mohammed
   RAEA, Russia: Marina Yatsenko
   Direct Licensees: none
   European Aluminium: Ronald Prenger
   ESTAL: Ernst Weigl
Technical Committee
   OEVA, Austria: Ernst Weigl
   QUALUBEL, Belgium: Philip Hilven
   QUALISINO, China: Jerry Li
   ADAL, France: Mélanie Grammaticopoulos
   VOA, Germany: Matthias Krämer
   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: Gonzalo de Olabarria
   VSA, Switzerland: none
   AYID, Turkey: Dr. Metin Yilmaz
   QUALANOD UK, Great Britain: Robin Furneaux
   QMEA, Middle East: Mansoor Ali Khan Mohammed
   RAEA, Russia: Dimitry Vasilevskiy
   Direct Licensees: none
   European Aluminium: Werner Mader
   ESTAL: Ernst Weigl
Label Committee
Mélanie Grammaticopoulos, Ellie Ganakou, Rolando Ragazzini and Robin Furneaux
Auditor
Secretariat

Working Groups:
N^o 10: Sample Evaluation of new processes
Convenor: Mr. R. Furneaux

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.