SGS SA
Geneva, Switzerland
World's largest TIC company by revenue; performs Fitness-for-Service assessments under API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 and mechanical integrity inspection programs covering pressure vessels, piping, and storage tanks for refining, chemical, and gas-processing operators. World's largest testing, inspection, and certification company; its occupational and industrial hygiene practice provides workplace sampling, testing, and risk assessment for exposures such as asbestos, indoor air quality, noise, and vibration. The world's largest TIC company; supports commissioning, qualification and validation (CQV) of cleanrooms and GMP manufacturing suites, and operates a global network of GMP laboratories (including Class 100 hoods and cleanrooms) for pharmaceutical microbiology and environmental monitoring testing. Testing, inspection, and certification company offering electrical safety certification and dielectric strength testing services to verify the maximum electric field a material can withstand before arcing or breakdown.
- Headquarters
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Founded
- 1878
- Website
- www.sgs.com
Notable facts
- Founded in 1878 in Rouen, France, originally inspecting grain shipments; moved headquarters to Geneva in 1915
- Reports having completed roughly 12,000 API 579/ASME FFS-1 assessments over a five-year period per its own published brochure
- Operates a global network of about 2,600 offices and laboratories
- Founded in 1878 in Rouen, France, originally inspecting grain shipments for maritime insurers.
- Began in 1878 as a grain-shipment inspection business in France before relocating headquarters to Geneva in 1915.
- Operates roughly 30 GMP-dedicated pharmaceutical facilities across 12 countries.
- Founded in Rouen, France to inspect grain shipments before moving headquarters to Geneva in 1915
- Listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and operates in over 115 countries
Service categories
Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data, WebSearch-verified againstsource 1 · source 2 · source 3. Data as of 2026-07-11. See methodology.
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