Member Spotlight: QIMA

About QIMA

QIMA is more than a testing, inspection, certification, and compliance company with their mission to offer their clients smart solutions to make products that consumers can trust. With a global reach spanning more than 100 countries, QIMA serves the consumer products, food, and life sciences industries, supports over 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers, and food growers. QIMA combines on-the-ground expertise with digital solutions that bring accuracy and visibility for quality, safety and compliance data. It also brings positive changes to the testing, inspection, and certification industry through its passion for customers and commitment to integrity and simplifying work.

QIMA’s Scope of Business

Within the consumer products, food and life sciences industries, QIMA offers a full suite of services:

Testing: physical, chemical or cybersecurity performance testing. Assessing the characteristics and efficacy of products and materialsin their network of labs
Inspection: assessing the quality and quantity of production lots
Audit: visiting manufacturing, processing and food growing sites, to assess their conformity to quality or sustainability requirements
Certification: issuing certificates against accreditation scopes to attest that products, sites or people conform to given standards
Professional services: supporting our clients with technical advisory services, outsourced R&D, training or consulting
Software solutions: building innovative platforms and tools to help our client digitize their quality, safety and compliance processes
Innovation: providing state-of-the-art R&D to drive our clients’ business into the future

Your Accreditation Body for NOM Certification

NYCE, a QIMA company, is a leader Conformity Assessment body accredited and authorized to provide product certification, testing and inspection services for products in the Electrical, Electronics, Energy Efficiency, Lighting, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Chemical and Plastics industries. It assesses compliance with Mexican Official Standards (NOMs), Mexican Standards (NMXs), Technical Provisions and other standards or national and international regulatory documents.

Its comprehensive services boost the competitiveness of manufacturers, importers and distributors by providing them with efficient solutions to demonstrate the conformity of their products with the standards established by the Mexican authorities.

NYCE, as a Standardization body, has participated in the development of more than 600 Mexican standards (NMXs) for sectors such as: electronics, telecommunications, IT Software and Gaming, Plastics, Use of water and Chemical, with which it provides SAFETY and TRUST to the industry and consumers in the country.

PEO (Previo en Origen) as called in Mexico

Since 2008, QIMA designed the PEO service for the Mexican market, that consists in a pre-shipment inspection designed specifically for Mexican customs regulations, which consists in registering the customs variables and is specifically designed by the appointed customs broker of the end client, Performed by QIMA inspectors at the loading site.

The primary aim is to:

Streamline Customs Clearance:

Minimize Port Delays: avoid warehouse fees and ensure swift container release within 48 hours.

Reduce Cost

Reduced Fines and Delays: proactive identification of non-compliant goods prevents fines and minimizes time-to-market.

Prevent Damage and Theft: by minimizing cargo handling, PEO safeguards goods from damage and reduces the risk of theft, since containers are not open at the destination port.

Regulatory Compliance

Simplified Documentation: Accurate pre-shipment inspections ensure smooth and compliant customs declarations.

By addressing these critical aspects, QIMA’s PEO service helps Mexican importers to mitigate risks, optimize operational efficiency, and achieve seamless customs clearance, ultimately strengthening their supply chain.

Consumer Product Testing

In today’s fast changing consumer market, manufacturers, brands and retailers must meet product quality and safety requirements. Consumers now look for transparency in the products they buy. With the ever more diversified supply chain, brands and retailers face more challenges in ensuring product quality and compliance.

QIMA has a team of trained experts, and it has its ISO 17025 accredited labs in Asia, Europe and the Americas to help you achieve product compliance in various consumer products including softlines, hardlines, electrical & electronics, and toys & juvenile products.

Supplier Audits

In today’s globalized marketplace, ensuring responsible and ethical practices throughout the supply chain is of utmost importance for businesses. Supplier audits play a crucial role in achieving this goal by providing comprehensive assessments of suppliers’ operations, systems, and compliance with industry standards. As a leading supply chain service provider, QIMA offers a wide range of supplier audit solutions to help businesses mitigate risks, ensure product quality, and uphold their brand reputation.

QIMA covers a comprehensive range of supplier audits includingEthical Audits, Structural Audits, Environmental Audits, C-TPAT Audits and Food Supplier Audits.

QIMA website: https://www.qima.com/

Email: info@qima.com

Tel: 400-009-8282 (China)

DISCLAIMER: The aim of this post is for informative purposes. MEXCHAM is not responsible for the products and/or services provided by the company referred in this post.