Bureau Veritas

Bureau Veritas provides testing, inspection and certification (TIC) services across industrial, energy, commodity and consumer markets. The work spans laboratory testing, product and asset inspection, third-party audits, certification against international standards, and technical consulting. Services are delivered through a global network of laboratories, offices and field inspectors rather than from a single site.

Oil, gas and commodities

Oil and gas coverage is organized into four segments:

• Exploration and production
• Refining and processing
• Special chemicals
• Transportation and storage

Commodities work runs alongside it, covering base and commodity chemicals, metals and minerals, mining, and oil and petrochemicals. Marine and offshore is listed as a separate market, and the company acts as a classification society for the containerships and bulk carriers used to move goods internationally.

Certification and cross-market services

Several service lines are offered across every market served:

• Certification and management system services
• Industrial product certification
• Government services
• Procurement and supply chain risk management
• SafeGuard by Bureau Veritas
• Cybersecurity work covering industrial (OT), connected product (IoT) and IT systems, and human behavior

Supply-R is a digital solution the company offers for building supply chain resilience. Sustainability services are provided to private and public organizations working to implement, measure and meet sustainability objectives.

Transport equipment and container inspection

Type approval and initial inspections are performed on tank containers, and the company states that the majority of tank containers on the market today were initially inspected and certified by Bureau Veritas. Statutory in-service inspections cover portable tanks, tank swap-bodies and tank containers intended for the carriage of dangerous goods, with voluntary non-regulatory inspections available at an owner's request. Box container services include periodic inspections under CSC regulations, ACEP audits, on-hire and off-hire inspections, and cleanliness verification, recorded through the company's HERMES digital platform.

Other markets served

• Automotive, aeronautics and space, rail, and transport and logistics
• Buildings and infrastructure, including data centers and telecommunications
• Consumer products and retail, covering electrical and electronics, hard goods and toys, smart and wireless devices, and softlines
• Power and utilities, covering hydrogen, power grids, renewables, and thermal power and heat
• Agri-food and agri-commodities, including load and discharge supervision, sampling, bacteriological and chemical analysis, fumigation, and certification to GMP, HACCP, Global Gap and organic labels

The company states it has worked in the aeronautics and space sector since 1922 and has performed safety oversight tasks on behalf of more than 25 aviation authorities. In food safety it describes more than 30 years of inspection, laboratory testing, audit and certification work across the seafood supply chain, with specialists working in 25 countries. For consumer products it reports more than 130 laboratories and offices, concentrated near client sourcing locations in Asia, and more than 100 accreditations and authorizations.