Northern Ohio/Pittsburgh Gathering Centers on Quality Standards

摘要

While quality improvement has long been a focus of many scrap recyclers, international quality assurance standards such as ISO 9000 are placing even greater emphasis on it, noted Scott Home, ISRI's director of state and local programs, discussing the ISO standard at the Northern Ohio and Pittsburgh chapters' joint meeting, held in Youngstown, Ohio, in late February. According to Home, more than 5,000 U.S. firms in a variety of indusries were ISO-registered at the beginning of 1995, and that number is believed to have since tripled. "It is coming faster than we thought it was," he said.