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CENTA's Quality Management System On The Right Track: Ress Elease

CENTA has been granted approval by Germanischer Lloyd (GL) to perform acceptance testing and final certification of their type-approved couplings in-house. This makes CENTA the first company worldwide to receive this authorization from GL. CENTA's quality management system has been certified according to ISO 9001 standards for over 20 years and their high standards have been recognized by several international classification societies. This new approval from GL is recognition that CENTA's quality management system is operating effectively.

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CENTA's Quality Management System On The Right Track: Ress Elease

CENTA has been granted approval by Germanischer Lloyd (GL) to perform acceptance testing and final certification of their type-approved couplings in-house. This makes CENTA the first company worldwide to receive this authorization from GL. CENTA's quality management system has been certified according to ISO 9001 standards for over 20 years and their high standards have been recognized by several international classification societies. This new approval from GL is recognition that CENTA's quality management system is operating effectively.

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PRESS RELEASE

CENTA’s Quality Management System on the Right


Track

The first company authorized by Germanischer Lloyd to


perform in-house acceptance testing on its own couplings

Haan, May 2008 - CENTA is the first company worldwide to which Germanischer
Lloyd (GL) has conferred the responsibility for alternative product certification of
type-approved couplings. In the future, CENTA will have the authority to carry
out acceptance testing and final stamping of those couplings, which have
previously been classified as approved types. These tests have to be performed
in accordance with the “Alternative Product Certification”, a modular
certification system developed by Germanischer Lloyd (GL). The approval
becomes valid by their joint signatures under the pertinent product certificate.

CENTA is one of the leading manufacturers of flexible drive components


worldwide and has been supplying couplings for marine applications for more
than 20 years. In 1990, the company’s quality management system was first
approved by DIN ISO 9001. Since that time, all subsequent audits since have
been passed successfully. Only recently, did the classification society Det
Norske Veritas (DNV) attest the coupling manufacturer to support a higher-
than-average quality management system.

Several international classification societies, such as the Det Norske Veritas


(DNV), Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (NKK), and the Maritime Register of Shipping
(MRS), have already granted CENTA the authority to stamp their type-approved
series couplings on its own in-house. CENTA has a stock of approximately 65
approved types. In 2007, roughly 2,000 certifications by several classification
societies were carried out on CENTA’s premises. In the future, CENTA will be
the first manufacturer worldwide to be granted approval by Germanischer Lloyd
(GL) for carrying out acceptance tests on its own flexible couplings up to 100
Nm.

Germanischer Lloyd (GL) is one of 10 internationally recognized classification


societies and has been setting technology and quality standards for more than
140 years, standards which are ensuring safety on more than 6,500 ships all
over the world. “We have been maintaining close and trusting cooperation with
several classification societies for more than 20 years”, says Gerhard Kirschey,
founder of CENTA Antriebe Kirschey GmbH. “We are continuously striving to

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improve the quality of our products and processes. Approval by Germanischer
Lloyd for carrying out acceptance testing of our couplings on our own, in-house,
indicates that our quality management system is on the right track”, company
director Kirschey explains. We are very proud of this sign of confidence and see
our efforts confirmed, which are supported by our employees’ high commitment
level.”

The innovative CENTA couplings and drives are permanently adapted to the most
recent technical demands and requirements. A wide range of innovations has made
the company, with its near 40-year old history, one of the world’s leading
manufacturers of flexible couplings and drive shafts for industry and marine
applications. Further information can be obtained at www.centa.info

Press contact: ARIADNE Medienagentur, Kiefernweg 13, D-76149 Karlsruhe.


Phone +49-721-9703023. Fax +49-721-788370. info@ariadne.de,
www.ariadne-medienagentur.de

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