SGS TECNOS

SGS TECNOS is the world’s leading company in inspection, verification, testing, and certification. We are recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With over 90,000 employees, we operate a network of more than 2,000 offices and laboratories around the world.

Our core services can be divided into four categories:

Inspection: Our wide range of world-leading inspection and verification services—such as checking the condition and weight of traded goods during transshipment—helps you control quantity and quality and meet all relevant regulatory requirements across different regions and markets.

Testing: Our global network of testing facilities, staffed with trained and experienced personnel, enables you to reduce risk, shorten time-to-market, and test the quality, safety, and performance of your products against relevant regulatory, health, and safety standards.

Certification: We enable you to demonstrate that your products, processes, systems, or services meet national or international standards or customer-defined benchmarks through certification.

Verification: We ensure that products and services comply with global standards and local regulations. By combining global coverage with local knowledge, experience, and unmatched expertise across virtually every industry, SGS covers the entire supply chain—from raw materials to final consumption.

We constantly look beyond customers’ and society’s expectations to deliver market-leading services wherever they are needed. As a leader in providing specialized business solutions that improve quality, safety, and productivity while reducing risk, we help customers navigate an increasingly regulated world. Our independent services add significant value to our clients’ operations and ensure commercial sustainability.

In addition to providing services that promote sustainable development, our values also reflect a strong commitment to corporate sustainability. For us, sustainability means managing a profitable long-term business while taking into account all the positive and negative environmental, social, and economic impacts we have on society. You can learn more about our policies and sustainability program in our Corporate Sustainability section.

OUR VISION

Our goal is to be the most competitive and productive service organization in the world. Our core competencies in inspection, verification, testing, and certification are continuously improved to be best-in-class. They are at the heart of who we are. Our chosen markets will be determined solely by our ability to be the most competitive and to consistently deliver unrivaled service to our customers worldwide.

OUR VALUES

We aim to be characterized by our passion, integrity, entrepreneurial spirit, and innovative mindset, as we continually strive to achieve our vision. These values guide everything we do and are the cornerstone on which our organization is built.

OUR HISTORY

Established in 1878, SGS revolutionized grain trading in Europe by offering innovative agricultural inspection services. The company was registered in Geneva as Société Générale de Surveillance in 1919. SGS shares were first listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange in 1985. Since 2001, we have had a single class of registered shares.

From our origins in 1878 as a grain inspection company, we have grown steadily to become industry leaders. We have achieved this through continuous improvement, innovation, and by supporting our clients’ operations through risk reduction and productivity enhancement.