SGS Ukraine is Grain & Maritime days in Odessa-2018 exclusive sponsor

Foreign enterprise SGS UKRAINE, representative of SGS International Group (founded in 1878 in France) became an exclusive sponsor of Grain & Maritime Days in Odessa 2018.

SGS is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. Today SGS Group is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 95,000 employees, SGS operates a network of more than 2,400 offices and laboratories around the world.

For over 140 years, SGS renders services for clients, aimed at monitoring quantity and quality of goods and compliance with all the applicable law requirements of various markets.

SGS Ukraine is engaged in testing aimed at risk mitigation, time saving for the product entry into the market, checking product quality, safety and functional specifications. SGS Ukraine core services can be divided into four categories:

  1. Inspection.  Product quantity and quality checking for the whole production and sale cycle.
  2. Laboratory testing. Checking compliance of the product specifications with national, international, industrial and other standards, at the customer’s territory or nearby. SGS Ukraine Testing Center is the only laboratory in Ukraine certified according to the State Standard ISO 17025 UNBA (ILAC). Apart from standard physical and chemical tests, it is engaged in the environmental safety testing (e.g. detecting the residual content of pesticides, heavy metals, toxins, GMO, dioxins), microbiologic research and fixing the agricultural product phytosanitary values.
  3. Certification. Certification of product, service and system compliance with standards prescribed by governments, standardization bodies of SGS clients.
  4. Fumigation. Our main advantage is use of global top manufacturers’ products, proper equipment and qualified personnel, in order to facilitate processing quality and to mitigate the risk of obstacles during the product import in the destination country. We use only registered products, permitted for use in EU.

Special attention should be drawn to SGS Ukraine Agroindustrial Complex Department. Every year SGS inspects millions tons of various agricultural cargos, renders a wide range of services in accordance with industrial requirements, including integrated sets of services specially for the client’s individual demands. SGS practice is based on regular expansion of skills and experience, in order to act both as qualified consultant and reliable business partner, being able to assess and to mitigate its clients’ possible risks. SGS inspectorate performs a large scope of tasks, apart from traditional surveillance and control. Due to growth of the clients’ demands and the necessity in complex services, SGS Ukraine is always ready to propose the ultimate products aimed at risk mitigation and supply chain improvement.

Join the conference Grain & Maritime Days in Odessa to study the company’s operation in details, to ask the questions of concern and to listen to the SGS experts’ report on Black Sea grain quality.