Our clearly defined objective is to adopt best practices and Total Quality Management on a daily basis while respecting the environment and extending this aim not just to our products, services, operating and management procedures but also to our suppliers.
For the last 10 years, there has been continuous progression in developing our approach to quality, resulting in a now pro-active offer of quality service.
It has contributed to creating value both within and outside the Group. It aims to be a faithful reflection of the Management commitment, which aims to meet deadlines, efficiently manage products and continually improve services.
The Quality Department
- Represents the customer within the company,
- Ensures product compliance.
The Quality Department works hand in hand with and consults the various departments (R & D, Purchasing, Industrial, Sales, etc.), the production sites and subsidiaries on several different levels and in a cross-functional manner:
Association in the development of new products,
Implementation of delegation of control and supplier evaluation authority,
Audits and measures of internal and external processes,
Control of compliance with the qualitative standards and directives in force,
Proper documentary management and recording of procedures,
Participates in the process of continuously improving quality within the Group,
Proposes preventive and corrective actions.
Certified production sites
The Sauermann Group strengthens its quality policy through obtaining certifications, proof of its total commitment, which have already been acquired for its 2 production sites and, in the case of its subsidiaries, which are in the process of certification
The French production site has been ISO 9001/2000 certified since 2002, and ISO 9001 / 2008 since 2009 in accordance with the international standard of the AFAQ (French Association for Managing and Improving quality), following its ISO 9002 certification in 1997.
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Since July 2006, the TÜV has certified the ISO 9001/2000 conformity of the Shanghai production site (China).
Certified products
The Sauermann Group is not content with self-certification. It subjects its products to the most rigorous controls:
The cETL inter-technological laboratory, certifies that Sauermann products comply with standards in Canada and the United States.
The Quality Department pursues an aim known as “eco-production”, which consists in integrating the environment at the core of the Group’s industrial activities.
By implementing an Environment Management System, the Group is committed to:
Fully complying with regulatory and applicable requirements:
Identifying and preventing pollution risks (UIMM)*
Continually improving its environmental performance.
*Association of Metallurgy Crafts and Industries (France).
Complying with and applying European directives
The Sauermann Group applies the RoHS and WEEE European directives to 100% of its products. It thus contributes to the limitation, treatment and recycling of polluting materials. Any substances likely to be of a hazardous nature for the health of its employees, customers and users or which could be harmful to the environment are forbidden.
The cETL inter-technological laboratory, certifies that Sauermann products comply with standards in Canada and the United States.