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Certified quality

94.30% 73.5% 978,586

of the volume produced in of the volume produced Quality controls with 99.68%
Spain is ISO-9001 certified internationally is ISO-9001 compliance

Aqualia’s strategy is centred around the end users, with
CLEAN WATER
AND SANITATION particular attention to the quality of the supplied product.
To do so, the company focuses its efforts on ensuring the best
quality of water to consumers, guaranteed by extensive testing
at company laboratories.

The public information on and are audited by an in 2017 for a total of 978,586
the quality controls carried national accreditation body. quality controls that resulted
out are posted for consumers in 99.68% compliance.
on the SINAC website and In this regard, the company’s On World Quality Day 2017,
local website wherever we Spanish network of 27 Aqualia celebrated the 20-
operate. laboratories will consolidate year anniversary of its first
into 7 accredited laboratories ISO 9001 quality management
We began a laboratory and 2 certified laboratories certification in 1997. Two
reorganisation project back with a significantly higher years later, the company
in 2016 that continued into production capacity than secured its first ISO 14001
2017 to take further steps the present laboratories environmental management
certificate. The company
in adapting to the new and broader scope of joined the celebration
Commission Directive (EU) accreditation, including organised by the Spanish
2015/1787 on the quality of analytical techniques that Association for Quality (AEC)
water intended for human previously had to be done under the slogan “Liderar en
consumption, whose by external laboratories. tiempos de cambio” (Leading
transposition into Spanish in times of change) with a
law is scheduled for 2018. In this new configuration, retrospective of the major
This directive requires our currently accredited milestones achieved over
that water analyses follow laboratories analysed an the past 20 years.
Standard EN ISO/IEC 17025 overall total of 24,388 samples

5 laboratories in Spain and 2 in
the Czech Republic are accredited
under UNE-EN 17025.

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