UL: a name you can trust

UL is a global, independent safety science company with several subsidiaries including the UL Thermoplastics Testing Center

We offer expertise across five key strategic businesses:
  • Product Safety
  • Environment
  • Life & Health
  • University
  • Verification Services

Our breadth, proven objectivity, reliability and longstanding experience are held in high esteem by customers everywhere.

Our relationships with our clients are founded on mutual trust. We take our responsibility for humankind and the environment seriously and have been working daily for a safer world since 1894.

The following principles drive every decision we make:
  • Promoting safe living and working environments by applying safety science and hazard-based safety engineering
  • Supporting the production and use of products which are physically and environmentally safe and applying our efforts to prevent or reduce loss of life and property
  • Advancing safety science through research and investigation
  • Concentrating our efforts and resources on public safety in those areas where we can make valuable contributions
  • Working with integrity and a focus on quality to enhance the trust conveyed by our certification marks
  • Charging fair prices that allow us to meet our obligations, sustain our growth and invest in safety science and education
  • Investing in our people and encouraging them to invest in themselves
  • Setting a good example of corporate citizenship and social responsibility

Global conformity

Unparalleled breadth. Unmatched expertise.
UL’s global conformity work in 2010:
  • 23 billion test marks appeared on new products
  • 66,932 manufacturers made UL certified products
  • 89,189 product evaluations conducted
  • 595,709 follow-up service visits
  • 19,722 types of product evaluated
  • 103 UL inspection centers in 100 countries worldwide
  • 2 billion consumers reached by UL with safety messages in Asia, Europe and North America
  • 1,413 current safety standards published by the UL family of companies (1,112 by UL, 301 by ULC)
  • 73 laboratory, testing and certification facilities in the UL family of companies
  • 7,024 employees in the UL Group

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