Standards for ores and metals ensure quality, precision, and reliability in material testing, processing, and application. They provide guidelines for everything from hardness and tensile strength to plating and composition analysis, helping industries optimize performance, meet safety requirements, and maintain global consistency.

Top standards

Steel — Determination of the non-metallic inclusion content — Micrographic method

Corrosion tests in artificial atmospheres — Salt spray tests

Corrosion of metals and alloys — Accelerated testing involving cyclic exposure to salt mist, dry and wet conditions

Metallic materials — Tensile testing
Part 1: Method of test at room temperature

Metallic materials — Calibration and verification of static uniaxial testing machines
Part 1: Tension/compression testing machines — Calibration and verification of the force-measuring system

Metallic materials — Vickers hardness test
Part 1: Test method

Metallic materials — Instrumented indentation test for hardness and materials parameters
Part 3: Calibration of reference blocks

Insights

ISO 14001:2026: What’s changed and what it means for your business

Environmental performance is no longer a side issue – it’s a strategic priority shaping decisions at every level. As pressures mount from climate risks, regulation and stakeholder expectations, organizations face a clear challenge: turning environmental ambition into measurable results. ISO 14001:2026 is designed to meet that need.

Opinion

Building a net-zero metals future with harmonized standards

The path to a net-zero future depends on every industry doing its part, and few are more pivotal than the steel and aluminium sectors. But they have a cost, particularly when it comes to their carbon footprint.

Occupational safety: A guide to protecting people’s health at work

Occupational health and safety is often treated as a checkbox exercise – but this mindset has consequences. Each year, millions suffer injuries or illnesses because their workplace failed to prioritize their wellbeing.