Products & services must be certified: the  participants stressed

ECAE launches to test vitamin A, E and D found in food

The service enables to identify the quality of foods especially used for children which was before done abroad and can save hard foreign currency

Ethiopian conformity assessment, chemical laboratory, starts to test the amount of vitamin A, E and D and can widen the scope of its testing services. The service especially helps to identify the amount of vitamins (A, E and D) which are crucial for children mental maturity and physical wellbeing. The enterprise progressively builds the capacity of its staff both in and out of the country and furnished its laboratory in modern testing equipment which makes it to be competent enough to test different types of products in a wider range of parameters.

In this fiscal year based on an agreement reached between governmental and nongovernmental organizations in /out of the country various trainings were conducted on how to care and use testing equipment’s and on chemical analysis which adds up to identify the quality of products.

In related news the enterprise also starts to test and identify the opacity, brightness and whiteness of paper products in its textile and leather laboratory which was before done abroad.

Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF)

National Quality Infrastructure Development Project (NQIDP) is being designed to support the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) with the objective of addressing the major challenges concerning quality and standards in the country. The Project is anchored within the framework of the World Bank Group (WBG) current engagement on the industrialization agenda of the country to support the GoE to achieve its strategic objective of becoming “the light manufacturing hub of Africa by 2025”. NQIDP contributes to Ethiopia’s expected outcome of improved quality system, which in turn has positive impacts on the country’s ambition of achieving accelerated and sustained growth.

NQIDP is designed to strengthen NQI in Ethiopia in line with international standards and best practice so as to address the main development challenges related to NQI. The project has three interconnected components: (i) Component 1: Support to Institutional and Regulatory Development; (ii) Component 2: Support to Private Sector Engagement; and (iii) Component 3: Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation. Addressing different gaps in the supply and demand side of the NQI services, each component will leverage the inputs and outputs of other project components to ensure that the development objective of the project is realized in an integrated manner. The NQIDP proposed to cost US$50 million. The project is complementary to the ongoing WBG initiatives and within the framework of the industrialization program. Read More

ECAE Continued to strength it’s mechanical laboratory.

ECAE purchased a new machine called Spectromax at a high cost and gave training for the staff to further strength the mechanical laboratory.

The machine can identify the chemical composition of any metal at a percent level showing a result of one sample in a minute. Before the machine is purchased, the laboratory tests and reveals results using other parameters.

The significant of the machine is that as the country is in a great pace of construction, it can be taken as a means to ensure and use   quality construction metal inputs.