SIQ is a professional, independent and impartial institution providing complete solutions in the fields of product testing and certification, management systems assessment, metrology, and training.

Providing a wide range of comprehensive services, it is their objective to support organizations in their endeavours to realize their goals relating to the quality of their products and services, and to increase the productivity and efficiency of their operation. For more than 50 years they have cooperated with organizations in their endeavours to enter markets, increase productivity, improve quality and reach excellence.

Numerous accreditations and memberships of international certification schemes and associations are evidence of the international validity and high professional level of their work. Their key competitive advantage is the knowledge and experiences of their experts, international recognition and credibility, flexibility, complete solutions, ever new services and ability to adapt to the market.

Mission

By assessments and by passing their knowledge and experience on to their clients, they want to contribute to the development of the society that will be knowledge driven and based on products and services of highest quality.

Their staff are experts in areas covering safety of products and systems, metrology, management systems assessment and training. Joined, they are capable of delivering complete solutions for your easier and smoother access to various markets.

Their complete solutions are your advantage.

History

The history of their institute started in 1964 with the establishment of testing, measuring techniques and activities related to the maintenance of measuring instruments in the Sector for Measurements and Quality of the Institute for Automation.

Slovenian Institute of Quality and Metrology (SIQ) was founded towards the end of 1992 as the successor of the Institute of Quality and Metrology (IKM) with the founding contract signed by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Iskra
Holding d.d. (as a representative of the Iskra Group), Gorenje Gospodinjski Aparati d.o.o., Triglav Insurance Company d.d. and the Institute of Quality and Metrology (IKM).

They have been expanding and upgrading their scope of services in all fields of their activity. Professional competence of individuals, their ability to use their initiative and creativity, and their reliability are given full value in team work. The synergy of knowledge within SIQ is manifested in complete solutions adapted in their entirety to the needs of an individual organization.

This applies to product testing, product certification and metrology activities that they have been operating since their very beginnings in early sixties, as well as to the management system assessment and certification activity that they introduced in the beginning of the nineties. Their seminars and training programmes complete their scope of activities. In all fields of their activity their assessments are professional, independent and impartial.