Our quality assurance system is certified in accordance with the ISO 9001 standards. An independent quality assurance department is responsible for all working procedures required to ensure that all manufacturing processes are carried out in accordance with international technical delivery conditions like ASTM/ASME, EN, API and with the customer specifications.

Furthermore Permanent steel has been certified in accordance with the OHSAS 18001 to secure the occupational health and safety of our employees and to eliminate and minimize the risks associated with their activities.

Permanent steel has several third party approvals for their manufacturing process as well as customer approvals.

Third party approvals	American Bureau of Shipping	Selection of customer approvals	Saudi Aramco
	Bureau Veritas		Shell International
	Det Norske Veritas		Kuwait Oil Company
	Germanischer Lloyd		Petroleum Development Oman
	Lloyd"s Register		Sabic
	PED		Gasco

Destructive & non-destructive testing (In assuring the quality of our products, our own in-house testing facilities play an important role. Our laboratory is well equipped to perform a wide variety of both destructive and non-destructive quality tests.)

Destructive testing includes	tensile tests	Non-destructive testing includes	eddy current testing
	impact tests		x-ray testing
	bend tests		hydro testing
	hardness tests		ultrasonic testing
	intercrystalline corrosion test		positive material indentification testing
	pitting corrosion test
	metallurgical tests