Drum roll, flourish and applause calidena.ptb.de is online

Calidena is an artificial word made up of two Spanish words. The word for quality ‘calidad’ and the word for chain, ‘cadena’. Reinhard Schiel invented it many years ago to create a term for a comprehensive system for analysing and improving value chains, mostly in the agricultural sector. Calidena has become a word of normal…

The graphic advertises ExpoCalidad2021 with the title ColombiaMide and the regions - Confidence in your measurements, quality in your products. It shows a map of the world highlighting Colombia in the colours of the Colombian national flag and with cocoa and Hass avocado fruits.

ColombiaMide launches its first trade fair on quality and measurement services

The fair named ExpoCalidad2021 is a meeting point for the promotion of quality assurance in exports from Colombia Bogotá, D.C. November 5th, 2021. The ColombiaMide Project, with the support of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, the National Institute of Metrology (INM) and the Colombian Institute of Technical Standards and Certification (ICONTEC), are pleased…

Confident young female doctor working on laptop and writing something in the book.

Strengthening the Pharmaceutical Sector in Nepal with QI

Training-of-trainers seminar on analytical method validation for pharmaceutical analysis What can be done to strengthen local pharmaceutical production in Nepal and enhance added value? Finding answers to this question is the aim of an ongoing project called Support to Nepal in the field of quality infrastructure. Since 2013, PTB has been working with the Association…

Reception for the Minister of Economy Ismael Touré from Guinea with Federal Minister Walter Scheel in 1964.

The BMZ is 60 years old

2021 is a special year for Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). This is because the Federal Republic of Germany has now been engaged in development policy for over six decades. On 14 November 1961, Walter Scheel was appointed as the first Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation. This day is considered to…

Solar system on a roof

The power of the sun: Solar thermal project completed

Our project on Strengthening quality infrastructure for solar thermal energy in the Maghreb ended this October with a virtual closing event following nine years of successful cooperation. “I have mixed feelings about today,” reflected Carl Felix Wolff, who heads PTB’s Middle East and North Africa Section, as he looked back at the joint milestones, successes…

Two Online Workshops on Measurement Challenges

Thursday, 4 November 2021 | 10:00 – 15:45 hrs | SARS-CoV-2 and Future Pandemics Lecturers: Stakeholders and Representatives from NMIs / DIs Institute: European Metrology Network on Traceability in Laboratory Medicine | Technical Committee for Metrology in Chemistry Place: MS Teams, link after registration: https://www.euramet.org/european-metrology-networks/laboratory-medicine/registration-tlm-mc/?L=0 The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 posed significant challenges for healthcare systems around…