Kiwa (company)

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Kiwa NV

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legal form Limited Liability Company, LLC
founding 1948
Seat Rijswijk , the Netherlands
management Dr Paul GM Hesselink (CEO); Luc Leroy (COO); Rudy Niemantsverdriet (CFO)
Number of employees 4,700+ (2017)
sales € 529m (2017)
Branch Testing, Inspection, Certification (TIC)
Website www.kiwa.nl

Kiwa is a European testing, inspection and certification (TIC) body with its headquarters in Rijswijk , the Netherlands. Kiwa is active in over fifty countries around the world. The company, founded in 1948 as K eur i ngsinstituut voor W aterleiding A rtikelen (KIWA for short), participates in the safety analysis of many new European and international technologies as well as in the development of safety standards for numerous devices and components. Kiwa provides safety-related certification, testing, inspection, audit, advisory and training services to a wide range of customers including manufacturers, decision makers, regulators, service providers and consumers. In Germany, KIWA is active as a GmbH based in Hamburg at more than 10 locations. KIWA GmbH is a DAkkS accredited body in Germany .

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