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BURN Cookstoves Awarded ISO 9001:2015 Certification for High-Quality Standards    www.theexchange.africa

By being awarded the ISO: 9001:2015 certification, the international designer and cookstoves manufacturer demonstrates the company’s dedication to providing consistently high-quality products and constantly improving its design, manufacturing, and distribution processes to increase customer satisfaction with those processes and the company’s products.

This certification was awarded to BURN Manufacturing after a 12-month assessment of its business processes across all of its core departments by the world’s leading certification company, SGS United Kingdom Ltd.

BURN Manufacturing joins the ranks of more than one million companies and organisations located in 170 different countries that have been certified by the International Standards Organization (ISO).…

Former Kenya's securities boss ascends to the helm of ISO

For the first time in 70 years, an African will next week become the head of the global standards body, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Mr. Eddy Njoroge, a board member at the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) and a former Chairman at the Nairobi Securities Exchange will be confirmed as the 1st President of ISO from Africa, during the organization’s 42nd General Assembly Meeting that begins on Monday 16th September in Cape Town, South Africa.

Njoroge, 66, who missed the appointment by one vote in 2016 on his first attempt at the Beijing elections, brings to ISO over 10 years of experience in the field of standards.

He served as the CEO of Kenya Electricity Generation Company (KenGen) where he spearheaded its transformation from a parastatal to a publicly listed company. Most significantly, he led KenGen to become the first Kenyan public body to be …