AFNOR Groupe

AFNOR Groupe is a French international organization working in standardization, certification, publishing and training. Founded on June 22nd 1926 as the French Standards Association, it helps businesses, public entities and professionals develop and apply voluntary standards covering quality, security and interoperability. The organisation is an association governed by the law of 1901 and operates with a public interest mission.

The group employs 1,316 people and serves roughly 60,000 clients worldwide. It operates 38 international locations and maintains partnerships across 100 countries, giving staff exposure to work of both national and international scope.

Its activities are organised around several units. AFNOR Certification, a subsidiary, certifies systems, products, services and individual competencies and is the leading certification body in France. AFNOR Editions distributes a collection of 100,000 French, European and international standards. A training division runs nine international training centres, delivering expertise development and management systems training.

Technical work spans standardization, certification, publishing, training services, quality and security standards, and interoperability standards. The group has been in operation for nearly a century.