Institut Pro Testování a Certifikaci A.s., Bratislava

The Institute for testing and certification, a. s., Zlin is an independent testing, certification, supervisory, counselling - consulting and inspectional company with a wide scope. The outset of organization goes back to the year 1969, when the activity of State testing department no. 224 was opened within VUGPT (Instituteof Rubber and Plastic Material Technology Research) in Gottwaldov. It was spinned off from the structure of VUGPT in 1990 and was named State testing Department of Chemical Industry (SZUCHP) since 1990, which was in 1993 transformed with all its competences into a joint-stock company under the same name. The primary activity of the Institutewas orientated mostly on rubber and plastic material technologies. The company paid the efforts to offer a complex service what lead to a gradual revitalisation by means of the professional capacities and technical equipment in the field of testing the textile, tanning, shoemaking, grocery, chemical, constructional and electrotechnical industry products. As a consequence of this, several separated working places work within ITC.