API
(American Petroleum Institute)
API, founded in 1919, is the primary trade association of the U.S. oil and natural gas industry. API represents more than 400 members involved in all aspects of the oil and natural gas industry.  Located in Washington, D.C., API draws on the experience and expertise of our members and staff to support a strong and viable oil and natural gas industry.

API provides the opportunity for standards development, technical cooperation, and other activities to improve the industry’s competitiveness through sponsorship of self-supporting programs. The API Standards and Publishing Program maintains approximately 550 technical standards and supports the distribution of some 1,000 other publications. 

API’s Certification Programs provide important quality services to assist in member company operations and provide members with a level of assurance that equipment is manufactured and personnel are trained to industry requirements.

The API Monogram Program verifies quality in upstream and downstream industry equipment and suppliers.  The American Petroleum Institute Quality Registrar (APIQR) provides ISO 9001, Q1, and ISO 14001 certification services.  Individual Certification Programs (ICP) ensure standard levels of training, expertise, and skills for inspectors of key process equipment and materials.  Lastly, API’s Training Provider Certification Program (TPCP) identifies and certifies industry training schools based on quality and competency of training services. Over 300 manufacturers in China have been accredited by API under the API Certification Programs.

ASME
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
ASME is a not-for-profit scientific, educational, and technical organization for mechanical engineering, which was founded in 1880. It is a membership organization with 125,000 individual members internationally. It has no corporate members. ASME serves several important functions, one of which is the development and maintenance of voluntary codes and standards associated with the art, science, and practice of mechanical engineering. ASME holds more than 50 technical conferences and 200 professional development courses each year and has 62 agreements of cooperation with engineering societies around the world.

ASME promulgates and publishes approximately 600 codes and standards addressing a broad range of topics related to engineering. One such code is the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC), which is accepted in over 80 countries and is ASME’s most widely used code. The BPVC sets manufacturing requirements for pressure-retaining equipment such as heating boilers in places of public assembly, including hospitals, schools, and churches, as well as in multiple dwellings, and for pressure equipment in different types of facilities, from electric power generating plants, including nuclear plants, to chemical and oil refineries, to naval ships, to dry cleaning stores. The BPVC has been translated into Chinese by organizations in China. Over 100 manufacturers in China have been accredited by ASME under the BPVC conformity assessment system.

ASTM International
ASTM International is a global forum for the development of consensus standards.
Organized in 1898, ASTM International is one of the largest voluntary standards developing organizations in the world. ASTM is a not-for-profit organization that provides a forum for the development and publication of voluntary consensus standards for materials, products, systems, and services. ASTM’s members, representing producers, users, consumers, government, and academia from over 125 countries, develop technical documents that are a basis for manufacturing, management, procurement, codes, and regulations. These members belong to one or more committees, each of which covers a subject area such as steel, petroleum, medical devices, property management, consumer products, and many more. It is these committees that develop the more than 12,000 ASTM standards that can be found in the 77-volume Annual Book of ASTM Standards.

For over a century, industries around the world have turned to ASTM International for the development of voluntary consensus standards. Known for their high technical quality and market relevance, these standards are an important part of the information infrastructure that guides design, manufacturing, and trade in the global economy.

CSA America, Inc.
CSA America, Inc. is providing programs accredited by ANSI with both national and international exposure for participation in the development of standards and product testing and certification.  CSA America has over 75 years of history in the development of standards and conformity assessment.  This involves multiple industry sectors providing opportunity for established and emerging industries.

CSA America has over 450 industry, business, government, regulatory and consumer committee members participants in its primary standards development programs, and holds over 50 meetings each year.  With over 6000 U.S. customers in multiple business areas, CSA America is well recognized.  Years of experience provide for the ongoing development of standards and conformity testing and certification of natural and propane gas burning appliance and related component equipment, accessories and operating controls for residential, commercial and light industrial products with over one hundred existing and new standards.  CSA America is also well recognized as a leader in standards harmonization in North America alleviating potential trade barriers for U.S. gas markets.  CSA America continues to lead and maintain these active programs.

In the past decade CSA America also has developed new programs for standards, testing and certification for emerging markets for natural gas vehicles and station equipment, fuel cells and hydrogen generation, and house gas piping systems, representing some 25 standards projects.  Fuel cells and hydrogen generation have provided new forums for both national and international standards development.  CSA America, in addition to its national programs is actively participating in the international IEC TC 105 and ISO TC 197 Technical Committees’ activities on fuel cells and hydrogen generation, and is U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) administrator to IEC TC 105.  Currently, CSA America is participating in 14 IEC/ISO TC’s, TAG’s and working groups.  Standards being developed for U.S. technology are being used as seed documents for international standards development.