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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.