Soyuzekspertisa

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Sojusekspertisa of HIK RF (SOEX)

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legal form Holding company
founding April 3, 1923
Seat Moscow , Russia
management MRBimatow (managing director), NA Sokolovskaya (finance)
Number of employees 300
Branch technical services
Website www.soex.ru

Sojusekspertisa of the HIK RF (SOEX) ( Russian АНО "Союзэкспертиза" Торгово-Промышленной Палаты РФ (СОЭКС)), own spelling SOYUZEXPERTIZA , is an independent holding company with an independent national structure and headquartered in Moscow, with its head office SOYUZEXPERTIZA . Sojusekspertisa is a subsidiary of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation (HIK RF). The company's main fields of activity are inspection, certification, expert opinions, laboratory tests, goods registration, verification, testing of goods and services for Russian and international companies. The company has its own test laboratories as well as the center for expert reports and analyzes.

Corporate structure and network

Sojuzekspertisa has 37 branches of its own in major cities and ports in Russia and also offers its services to over 180 regional chambers of commerce and industry of the Russian umbrella association.

As a subsidiary of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Sojuzekspertisa is involved in the day-to-day operations and projects of the Chamber Association. The expert holding carries out joint projects with other HIK subsidiaries, including the leading national exhibition company Expocentre and the oldest national company for copyright protection.

history

In the years after the October Revolution and the civil war , the system of chambers of commerce and the structures related to their content began to re-operate in the Soviet Union, including in the field of product appraisals and patents. In 1923, under the umbrella of the Northwestern Chamber of Commerce founded in Petrograd in 1921, the first office for goods appraisals was established, laying the foundation for today's service company Sojuzekspertisa.

In the 1930s, the newly created Chamber of Commerce in Moscow was authorized by the state to, among other things, patent inventions, register trademarks and designs and check the origin of goods. The establishment of a uniform national goods inspection center could not initially be implemented during the Second World War . However, the chamber's activities in the field of product appraisals were already considerably expanded during the war years.

Since 1957, the Union Chamber of Commerce has been officially authorized to carry out goods inspections throughout the Soviet Union. At the end of the 1950s, the specially established expert committees as well as the advisory and methodology committees took on various business tasks, thereby enabling additional quality assurance for services.

In the 1960s, further measures followed to expand the range of services and to secure internal specialist expertise. In 1988, the Sojuzekspertisa Association of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the USSR was established, which after the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation in 1993 has remained as a structure within the national chamber umbrella organization. In 1999 the company was granted the status of an independent non-profit organization. In 2003 the commercial holding company Sojusekspertisa of HIK Russia (SOEX) was founded with 30 own organizations (branches) in the major cities and ports of Russia.

Services

The company provides services in the following industries:

  • Agriculture - advice on requirements and legal regulations in Russia; Certifications, reports and registrations; Test samples in our own laboratory; Accompanying the manufacturing and delivery process.
  • Food production - advice on requirements and legal regulations in Russia; Support with access to public procurement for large Russian corporations and domestic authorities.
  • Pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry - Declaration of conformity and certificates of conformity for raw materials and finished products; chemical tests and analysis; toxicological studies or risk assessment (TRA); Packaging tests; Certification programs; Registration with the Federal Accreditation Service RusAccreditation (Rosakkreditazia).
  • Consumer Goods and Commerce - Testing and Certification; Inspection service for raw materials, finished products and packaging; Supplier audit; Appraisals of goods returns; Advice on the development and quality assurance of products, processes and supply chains.
  • Construction - Verification of compliance with construction plan and budget; Advice and project support before the start of construction and in the construction phases as well as in construction disputes.
  • Healthcare - compliance check with requirements and standards in Russia and other countries; Support with product launch on the Russian market; Expertise, laboratory and certification services.
  • Hotel and hospitality industry - confirmation of the classification (including star classification) and rating reviews; Control of quality management systems; Laboratory tests and laboratory analysis; Inspection services, energy audit; Supplier audit.
  • Logistics - quality and quantity control of cargo loads in delivery companies and ports; Packaging tests; Audits, risk management, incident management; Personnel certification and training.
  • Mechanical engineering - tests, conformity assessments of processes and projects; Creation of confirmations of conformity with Russian legal regulations and standards for quality, efficiency, safety and health protection in industry as well as with international regulations and contract regulations.
  • Petroleum Industry - inspections, appraisals and certification from production to shipment of raw materials and finished products; Process optimization of oil exploration and production.
  • Financial and banking sector - independent appraisal, valuation and legal appraisals of various types of property (buildings, equipment and systems, corporate property, intellectual property).

Memberships

Sojusekspertisa of HIK Russia (SOEX) is a member of the following national and international organizations and associations:

  • TIC Council (Testing, Inspection and Certification), Belgium
  • Committee for Economic Cooperation with the Countries of Latin America, Russia
  • Association of professional planners, Russia
  • Association of small and medium-sized construction companies of the business association OPORA, Russia
  • Interregional Association of Appraisers in the Energy Sector, Russia

Sojusekspertisa employees are members of committees, working groups and councils of the HIK RF, the Federal Office for Technical Regulation and Metrology Rosstandard , the Federal Accreditation Body RusAccreditation, the Association of Appraisers.

The company works with international expert organizations, including Baltic Control, Bureau Veritas, Control Union, Intertek, IEI and Omic.

International projects

Sojusekspertisa has been accompanying the construction and renovation of large infrastructural and industrial properties abroad since the 1970s and offers international clients services, including acceptance tests, pre-shipment controls, and deadline monitoring for the production and delivery of industrial plants.

In Argentina, Sojusekspertisa took on the quality control of systems in the Salto Grande, Piedra del Aguila and Los Caracoles hydropower plants.

activities

As part of the strategic realignment decided in 2017, the company is implementing a number of measures, including quality assurance of business processes and the expansion of the customer base. To expand international collaborations, the company is developing strategic partnerships with certification and assessment organizations from China, India, Vietnam, South Korea, Cuba, Ecuador and Uzbekistan.

Since August 2019 Sojusekspertisa has been a member of the technical committee for standardization "Organic agricultural production, raw materials and food". The tasks of the Rosstandard Committee include the development, expert opinion, coordination and drafting of national, bilateral and international standards in the organic food industry. A joint initiative of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, the Federal Office for Technical Regulation and Metrology Rosstandard and the National System for Quality Control is intended to enable a legally binding separation between an ecological and organic food industry and thus ensure more transparency for end consumers. The committee is part of the catalog of measures to establish a modern organic food industry in Russia.

According to its own statements, Sojusekspertisa is committed to ensuring the quality of goods and protecting against counterfeit products in the consumer goods industry. The holding acts as a co-organizer and member of the jury for product competitions at various international trade fairs in Russia, including Mebel (furniture), Houshold Expo, Textillegprom (textile and light industry) and MIT DETSTWA (world of childhood).

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