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V.Group’s technical services companies successfully renew ISO certification status

The technical services companies within V.Group successfully completed their latest round of ISO9001:2008 recertification audits with Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance last month.

The companies undergoing recertification since January this year included UMC in Singapore, Dubai and UK, our global Seatec Communications and the Glasgow, Scotland based – Seatec Safety, CBM, Marlins, Seatec Repairs and Seatec Engineering.

Kirsten Duffin, QHSE manager said: “Our employees should be very proud of this achievement, which reflects months of hard work, collaboration and effort across several business units. Recertification provides continued assurance of our commitment to quality for our clients.”

The next round of audits to the new ISO9001:2015 standard will begin early in 2017.

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  • Business enterprise

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  • lloyd's register quality assurance
  • quality assurance
  • umc
  • marlins
  • seatec

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