BSI to launch operations here

The British Standards Institution (BSI), the National Standards body in the United Kingdom will launch its operations in Sri Lanka this month. With over one-hundred years of achievements, BSI is one of the world leaders in advancing industry and business for a better quality of life.

Founded in London in 1901 as the 'Engineering Standards Committee', the BSI is the world's oldest National Standards Bodies and a founder member of the ISO. It has 15,000 subscribing members and 2,000 standards published per annum and currently counts 24,000 current British Standards with 7,000 current standards projects.

The BSI also has 2,500 committees with around 23,000 committee members worldwide.

Commenting on the launch of BSI operations in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka Country Representative Kumar Pieries said, "As a USD 456 million business company, the British Standards Institution is today a well established global Service Business, in over 110 countries with a 5,500 staff worldwide.

Also being the No 1 National Standards Body and No. 1 Certification (ISO registration), it has 24,000 standards written so far across 50,000 customers worldwide.

This will help Sri Lankan products and services for the best quality certification to compete on equal terms with globalisation."