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Backgrounders

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) is an independent, not-for-profit product-safety testing and certification organization. We have tested products for public safety for more than a century.

Since our founding in 1894, we have held the undisputed reputation as a leader in product-safety testing and certification within the United States. Building on our household name in the United States, UL is becoming one of the most recognized, reputable conformity assessment providers in the world. Today, our services extend to helping companies achieve global acceptance, whether for an electrical device, a programmable system, or an organization's quality process.

Here's more information about UL's global conformity work in 2005:

20 billion UL Marks appeared on products

71,409 manufacturers produced UL certified products

UL conducted 97,915 product evaluations

UL evaluated 19,140 types of products

123 UL Inspection Centers

96 countries with UL customers

210 million consumers UL reached with safety messages in the United States and Canada

1,291 total number of current Standards of the UL family of companies (979 for UL; 312 for ULC)

5,936 total number of facilities registered by UL to a management system standard as of Dec. 31, 2005

62 laboratory, testing and certification facilities in the UL family of companies

Nearly 5,800 staff of the UL family of companies ready to serve UL customers

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