TUV SUD PSB Vietnam, a subsidiary of Germany’s TUV SUD Group, will
cooperate with Vietnam in quality management and evaluation of wood
processing factories.
To this effect, a
cooperation agreement was signed between the company and the Ho Chi Minh
City Handicraft Wood Industry Association (HAWA) on April 22.
As the world’s leading technical solution provider in product testing,
certification and qualification, TUV SUD PSB Vietnam will provide
technical training courses on quality management and evaluation of
factories with up-to-date and helpful information, said the company’s
General Director Sathish Kumar Somuraj.
According to
HAWA Chairman Nguyen Chien Thang, 300 members of the association in
particular and Vietnamese wood businesses in general are mainly small-
and medium-sized with weak competitiveness.
As
their main export markets, Europe and the US, are setting stricter
criteria on product origin and putting many technical and commercial
barriers on wood products, the cooperation with the German company is
expected to help Vietnamese wood producers better integrate into the
world market and increase exports, he said.-VNA