The Intra Africa Trade Fair (IATF), where the theme was “The AfCFTA marketplace”, took place on 9-15 November 2023 in Cairo, Egypt. The fair, which welcomed a total of 1,615 exhibitors from 61 countries (including 42 African states) was organized by the African Union (AU), the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat and Afreximbank.…
We welcomed special guests to PTB on 23 October 2023. We were very pleased that the director of the National Metrology Institute of Thailand (NIMT for short), Dr Pornchai Suteerakune, and his deputy, Anusorn Tonmueanwai, paid us a personal visit during their trip to Europe. NIMT and PTB have a long history of successful cooperation.…
Within the scope of the four-day International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Innovation Week, a symposium on the need for a quality infrastructure (QI) for the green hydrogen industry took place in Bonn on 28 September 2023. Around 50 representatives of international institutions, lobbies, consulting firms as well as other actors from the energy supply sector and QI met…
For almost five decades, the national metrology institutes of Colombia and Germany, the INM and PTB, have been closely collaborating on metrology on behalf of their respective countries and have achieved significant milestones in the scientific field. Since its inception, this alliance has sustained metrology as a fundamental pillar for the quality infrastructure that contributes…
IC 2.0 – this is the slogan under which PTB’s International Cooperation (IC) has been working since 2021 to make its project work more environmentally and climate-friendly. Inspired by the learning experiences of the Corona pandemic, this process is focussed on four fields of action: Reducing or optimizing the travels that PTB staff take, further developing…
In collaboration with the International University of Africa USIU and the German multinational science and technology company Merck, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany’s National Metrology Institute, joins forces with Kenyan pharmaceutical manufacturers Dawa, Biodeal, Elys, and Regal to establish an educational programme in the East African Country. This programme aims to improve the pharmaceutical manufacturing…
This delicious cake was not only ceremoniously cut but eaten in its entirety by the many guests who celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Pan-African Quality Infrastructure (PAQI) on 12 October. The party took place in the impressive complex of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa following meetings of the PAQI Joint Committee and…
The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) has published a comprehensive study on how to assure safety, quality and sustainability in the photovoltaic sector in emerging and developing economies. The study Quality Infrastructure on Photovoltaic Systems was elaborated by Ferdinand Consultants with inputs from the PTB project teams and from international contributors. In many countries, the reputation of…
A training course on the topic of wood and furniture testing was held for staff members of the Rwanda Standards Board (RSB) from 4-15 September 2023 in Dresden, Germany. The cooperation is currently taking place with RSB to support the establishment of a testing laboratory for wood and furniture in the capital city, Kigali. The…
The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the East African Community (EAC), supported by the Gesellschaft für Agrarprojekte (GFA), conducted a joint study tour to Addis Abeba, Ethiopia between 19 and 23 June. This visit was part of the project “Strengthening of the Quality Infrastructure of Selected Sectors in the EAC”, which is funded by the German…