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
Metin Yilmaz - Vice President
Philip Hilven - Executive Committee
OEVA, Austria: Ernst Weigl
QUALUBEL, Belgium: Philip Hilven
QUALISINO, China: Jerry Li
ADAL, France: Mélanie Grammaticopoulos
VOA, Germany: Dr. Thomas Becker
AAG NPC, Greece: Andreas Marcou
AFMSZ, Hungary: Andras Bango
QUALITAL, Italy: Riccardo Boi
QUALION, Netherlands: Egbert Stremmelaar
QUALIPOL, Poland: Andrzej Jelonek
APAL, Portugal: Antonio Sequeira
AEA, Spain: Juan Serret
VSA, Switzerland: none
AYID, Turkey: Metin Yilmaz
QUALANOD UK, Great Britain: Robin Furneaux
QMEA, Middle East: pending
RAEA, Russia: Marina Yatsenko
Direct Licensees: Jan Rohdemejer
European Aluminium: Ronald Prenger
ESTAL: Michiel Koot - Technical Committee
OEVA, Austria: Ernst Weigl
QUALUBEL, Belgium: Philip Hilven
QUALISINO, China: Jerry Li
ADAL, France: Mélanie Grammaticopoulos
VOA, Germany: Dr. Thomas Becker
AAG NPC, Greece: Andreas Marcou
AFMSZ, Hungary: Andras Bango
QUALITAL, Italy: Irene Marcolungo
QUALION, Netherlands: Remco Baartmans
QUALIPOL, Poland: Andrzej Jelonek
APAL, Portugal: Antonio Sequeira
AEA, Spain: Juan Serret
VSA, Switzerland: none
AYID, Turkey: Metin Yilmaz
QUALANOD UK, Great Britain: Robin Furneaux
QMEA, Middle East: pending
RAEA, Russia: Dimitry Vasilevskiy
Direct Licensees: Jan Rohdemejer
European Aluminium: Werner Mader
ESTAL: Michiel Koot - Label Committee
Mélanie Grammaticopoulos and Robin Furneaux - Auditor
- Secretariat
Working Groups:
No 3: To compare abrasion test with falling sand test.
To develop a referee test based on the manual abrasion test. Convenor: Mr. R. Boi
No 4: To implement a chrome-free substitute for the CPA test. Convenor: Mr. R. Furneaux
No 10: Evaluation of outdoor exposure testing of MTS systems. Convenor: Mr. R. Boi
No 12: To investigate the Specifications to insure that the Specifications are unambiguous to the question of high mass losses. Convenor: Mr. C. Deyhle
No 13: To determine the R & D projects. 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.