The Ramnäs Bruk Quality Assurance System conforms to the international quality standard of ISO 9001:2008 and the company holds product approvals from all major classification societies:

Ramnäs Bruk Quality Management System has successfully been certified by Det Norske Veritas Certification AB and now conforms to the new ISO standard ISO 9001:2008. The new certificate was issued April 21, 2004.

Ramnäs Bruk's Occupational Health and Safety Management System conform to the OHSAS 18001:2007 standard. DNV has certified our system and our certificate could be seen if you click on the link OHSAS 18001:2007. Ramnäs Bruk holds the opinion that security of work, health and environment is a social responsibility and should be the loadstar for all activities of the company. We have always put high internal effort and investments to Health, Safety and Environmental aspects. Our daily work reflects not only the Swedish Work Environment legislation, but also the international recognised standard OHSAS 18001:1999.

The three most important factors when producing high quality chains are the material, the welding procedure and the heat treatment of the chain. Apart from the manufacturing, thorough testing and qualified inspection are also of vital importance.

Ramnäs Bruk AB uses only steel from steelworks qualified and approved by classification societies. All material is thoroughly inspected upon arrival.

Ramnäs Bruk uses linear production and applies micro process control and recording of every individual flash butt weld.

Furnace temperature, water temperature, pressure and chain speed are continuously recorded. Nonconformance is recorded and corrective action is initiated.

Ramnäs Bruk has developed unique routines, invested in modern equipment and has skilled personnel to perform manual inspection and automatic testing.

Some of these routines are:

Manual and automatic control at heating of blanks

Pre heattreatment inspection

Visual control of the shape of each link

Visual control of trimming results of each weld

Inspection and control at forging

Hot link bend test

Fatigue test i.e. breakload and proofload

Shotblasting and checking surface cleanliness

Magnetic particle examination, MPI, performed by certified operators

Ultrasonic inspection, performed by certified operators