QUALANOD is a quality label organisation committed to maintaining and promoting the quality of anodised aluminium and its alloys for architectural applications. To determine whether or not an anodising meets a customer's requirements, the results need to be measurable against technical specifications. On behalf of customers who have products anodised, QUALANOD defines comprehensive quality requirements and monitors their compliance by licensed plants world-wide. As a result, purchasers of anodised aluminium receive a premium -grade product delivering long-term value with good quality. In past years QUALANOD has consequently made a great contribution to assuring the quality of aluminium parts used in architecture.
In 1974 several national associations encompassing anodisers of architectural parts organised in ESTAL and the EWAA formed the QUALANOD organisation. Their goal was to raise and standardise the quality level throughout Europe, laying down rules applying to their industry. Firms in many European countries have directly or indirectly become members of QUALANOD:
Most of the general licensees or national associations work together with a testing laboratory accredited according to ISO 17025. These laboratories are bracketed together in QUALISURFAL. In countries without a national association, QUALANOD engages experienced inspectors to review the licensees’ performance. Licensees who fail to meet the requirements lose their licence.
The technical Specifications are available in the Association's official languages: German, English and French.