Ondeo Industrial Solutions gains ISO 17025 accreditation for laboratory

The laboratory at Ondeo Industrial Solutions (SUEZ), a leading provider of services, engineering and equipment for industrial water and wastewater treatment, has been awarded its ISO 17025 accreditation for Total hydrocarbons, pH, COD, phenol, and low level cations and anions from the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). The 24-hour laboratory, based at Grangemouth, Scotland, has been in operation since 2005 and having grown rapidly in this period, has recently...
Aug. 10, 2007
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GRANGEMOUTH, Scotland, August 8, 2007 -- The laboratory at Ondeo Industrial Solutions (SUEZ), a leading provider of services, engineering and equipment for industrial water and wastewater treatment, has been awarded its ISO 17025 accreditation for Total hydrocarbons, pH, COD, phenol, and low level cations and anions from the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).

The 24-hour laboratory, based at Grangemouth, Scotland, has been in operation since 2005 and having grown rapidly in this period, has recently moved to larger premise. It now facilitates ten staff and with benefits such as a three-day turnaround, its growth continues apace.

To achieve UKAS accreditation, all analysis completed within the Ondeo IS laboratory had to conform to a stringent quality system. Over the past year, significant strides forward have been made in the overall quality of work completed within the laboratory. The UKAS auditors who commented favourably on the maturity of the system commended the high standard of the quality system.

Dr. Rhoda Brown, the lead analyst comments, "We are delighted to have achieved ISO accreditation. It has taken hard work and dedication from the entire team to completely restructure and then implement the quality system. From the outset, each analyst has contributed to this achievement, either through validation work or ensuring all new quality control measures are carried out.

Previously, we had stringent quality checks and standards in place, but gaining our accreditation gives our customers the reassurance that we are complying to regulatory standards and that they will continue to receive a high quality service."

Ondeo IS core expertise lies in the technical knowledge and capability of its people. In addition to offering its customers accurate industrial water testing for cooling and boiler systems, Ondeo IS can provide technical expertise, which offers root-cause analysis and solutions, with the overall aim of improving compliance and efficiency.

Looking to the future, Dr. Rhoda Brown continued, "At Ondeo IS, we aim to carry on improving the quality of our laboratory services. This includes widening our existing accredited water analysis range, so we can offer a fuller customer service. We are very pleased at how far we have come over the previous two years, and the service we offer, sampling, analysis, and interpretation through to operations and maintenance of water systems is unique in the industrial market."

Ondeo Industrial Solutions, a subsidiary of the Environment branch of SUEZ, is a leading provider of process and management improvements across the entire industrial water cycle. It operates and maintains over 200 water treatment plants for industry throughout Europe. Ondeo Industrial Solutions has built more than 2,000 industrial effluent treatment plants and more than 1,800 process water production plants.

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