AFNOR is an international services delivery network that revolves around 4 core competency areas: standardization, certification,industry press, and training.
The AFNOR's core strengths — know-how and expertise — forge a skillset exploited by over 50,000 customers in 100 countries worldwide.
For over 80 years now, the AFNOR Group has worked to promote voluntary management control processes by constantly gauging the interests of any and all socioeconomic stakeholders concerned that business activity is conducted in adherence to law. This is a setting where values like impartiality,criticality, and innovation are pivotal.
The current economic climate, shaken by the shifting currents of globalization, is a strong wake-up call to the fact that consensus is a factor of progress for everybody, across the board, securing greater fluidity in building partnerships.
The AFNOR Group knows how to respond to the needs of any kind of organization, from schools to private individuals to administrations,community groups, businesses or associations. The AFNOR Group's can draw on its position as a central hub in a network harnessing sector experts(professionals on standardization issues, auditors, educators, authors) andpartner organizations (government agencies, local council authorities, chambers of commerce and industry, business networks, civil society organizations, colleges and universities) to federate the people and competencies needed to surface and exploit solutions.
AFNOR Standardization surveys needs, develops standardization strategy, coordinates and guides standardization agency efforts, oversees that all the stakeholders to a standard get to provide their input, organizes public enquiries, and secures recognition for the standards established.
On a strictly business level, AFNOR Group companies are frontrunners in their respective fields.
AFNOR Certification, which delivers the sector-leading NF and AFAQ quality marks, is one of the few market actors capable of partnering customers end-to-end, from the definition of the processes best-geared to their strategy rightthrough to national and international-scale control and management.
AFNOR Compétences is French market leader in QSE management training. The 16,300 trainees registered every year offer clear proof that the training programmes are well-focused.
AFNOR Éditions offers a multiplatform catalogue in loose-leaf, CD, DVD, Intranet and Internet format, and 566 publications. Add a document library that counts 34,858 normative references, and every audience is fully catered for.