Korea Testing & Research Institute

The Korea Testing & Research Institute (in Korean: 한국화학융합시험연구원), abbreviated as KTR, is a testing and certification institute in South Korea which performs integrate testing, certification, and technical consulting for all fields of the industry.

The Institute is known as an international recognized testing body (ISO/IEC 17025),[1] a national recognized inspection institute for certifying ISO/IEC 17020, an international product recognition body (ISO/IEC Guide 65),[2] and a national certification body (NCB) by International Commission on the Rules for the Approval of Electrical Equipment (IECEE).[3]

In addition, KTR performs not only national certifications such as KC and KS, but also the international certification works such as CE, GOST-R, JIS, IECEE-CB, FCC, NSF, PSE, and Energy Star which are issued by the abroad main exporting countries, for example Europe, Russia, Japan, and the U.S.A., through construction of business partnership with 24 foreign countries and 81 bodies. Based on this, KTR performs Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) of Europe, China, Japan, etc. Moreover, KTR does supportive business for enterprises such as KOLAS/KAS officially recognized training, enterprise product development, failure cause analysis, associate business of industry, academy, and research, etc.

Purpose of Foundation

KTR is established to effectively perform testing, research, and certification as well as technical development for the chemical & environment, bio & nanotechnology, component & material, information & communications, and high-technology convergence. To provide good quality of testing and certification service to companies through the conformity assessment such as testing analysis, inspection, certification, assessment, evaluation, type examination, and calibration, the technology & research development, standardization business, actions to technical barriers, diagnosis & inspection & assessment for factor of technology & administration, assessment works, conformity assessment support for green products and green technology, support for technical innovation of national industry, provide of technical information, supportive business for educational training and advertisement, international cooperation program including MOU, and to enhance Korean testing and certification bodies’ international competitiveness, KTR (In Korean, 한국화학시험연구원) is combined with EMC Research Institute (ERI) (In Korean, 한국전자파연구원) on July, 2010, and then enlarged KTR (In Korean, 한국화학융합시험연구원) is launched. (National Standard Regulation Article 30, Clause 2)

  1. National Standard Regulation Article of Korea[4]

Location and branch

KTR comprises offices in 11 Korean major cities as geographical areas and abroad branches:

Headquarter

Local branches

Abroad branches

Organization

KTR is mainly organized by 11 offices, 61 teams and 2 foreign offices:

References

  1. ↑ ISO/IEC 17025
  2. ↑ International Organization for Standardization
  3. ↑ IECEE Members
  4. ↑ National Standard Regulation Article

External links

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