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FCF's
High Quality Standards
Earn ISO-9001 Certification
Framatome Cogema Fuels recently celebrated the award of ISO-9001
Certification to the company by the International Organization
for Standardization (ISO). Nearly 200 FCF employees gathered to
celebrate the award at the annual FCF Fall Fling.
Meeting the standard indicates FCF has met a series of 20 defined
quality standard criteria in three business segments: 1) management
support; 2) core systems; and 3) operating systems.
“Framatome Cogema Fuels has always set and met a high quality
standard because of our core business of manufacturing nuclear
power plant fuel and the accompanying Nuclear Regulatory Commission
standards,” said FCF President Bob Hoffman. “This certification
is another indication of quality and allows us an additional benchmark
to compare ourselves against.”
“ISO-9001 is important because it initiated a major management
review that emphasized procedure simplification,” Hoffman said.
“Because of the certification process and audits, we all became
more aware of our quality management system.”
Hoffman expressed gratitude to FCF employees. “This represents
a major milestone for our company, and it was mainly through the
hard work of the Quality and Business Integration organizations,
with the input of many employees, that we achieved this accomplishment,”
he said.
ISO-9001 Certification is an ongoing process and involves periodic
reviews by Bureau Veritas Quality International, a highly recognized
ISO certification agency accredited in Europe and the United States.
The ISO standard is used by both manufacturing and service organizations
to certify their quality system from initial design and development
of a product or service, through production, installation and
servicing.
European companies use the ISO-9001 Certification as a standard
and as FCF increasingly does business overseas it is important
that this worldwide-recognized certification be obtained and maintained.
FCF’s sister company, Franco Belge de Fabrication de Combustible
(FBFC), is ISO-9002 certified.

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