Thursday, 18 July 2024 / Published in Latest news, Media release, Standardisation
OKS Label
The SVKI, as the brand owner of the OKS label (Official Garbage Bag), has fundamentally revised the OKS guideline together with Ugra Swisstesting AG as the mandated testing body. The new directive sets the standard for the quality of garbage bags and came into force on 1 July 2024.
Tuesday, 25 June 2024 / Published in Latest news, Media release
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Wednesday, 07 June 2023 / Published in Latest news
Preisanpassung
Price adjustment as of 1.7.2023 For several months we have been confronted with rising energy costs, general inflation as well as strongly fluctuating exchange rates of the Swiss franc against the US dollar and the Euro. We have carefully examined and implemented all options within our control to absorb these rising costs. Nevertheless, we have
Thursday, 13 January 2022 / Published in Latest news
2022 is the year in which Ugra celebrates its 70th anniversary (1952-2022). The association “Verein zur Förderung wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen in der grafischen Industrie” was founded in 1952. Under the acronym Ugra®, borrowing the words “Untersuchungen” and “grafische” from the association’s name, it becomes a well-known brand worldwide.
Tuesday, 21 December 2021 / Published in Latest news, Media release
Ugra Sponsorhip Award 2021
Tuesday, 09 March 2021 / Published in Latest news, Media release
The Ugra Board of Directors has been reconstituted. René Theiler was already elected as the new President at the 2020 General Assembly as successor to Christoph Jäckle. Likewise, the election of board members Andy Amrein and Beat Steiner was confirmed in 2020, while Andreas Sidler had resigned from the board at his own request. Now
Thursday, 14 January 2021 / Published in Latest news, Media release
For the sixth time, Ugra donated the sponsorship award for the best Bachelor’s thesis at HEIG-VD/comem+. The sponsorship award was presented to the winner Mr Teo Colomberotto and is intended to recognise young media engineers for special achievements in the context of the media industry.
Monday, 14 December 2020 / Published in Latest news
Monday, 07 December 2020 / Published in Latest news, Standardisation
ISO 15930-9 PDF/X-6
ISO has published the new PDF/X-6 standard as International Standard ISO 15930-9:2020 for digital artwork. The new standard is based on PDF version 2.0, standardised in ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0), and specifies the complete and partial exchange of digital data intended for print reproduction.
Wednesday, 25 November 2020 / Published in Latest news
The year is coming to an end in big steps, so we would like to inform our customers about the opening hours during the turn of the year. The sample acceptance in the Ugra test laboratory is possible up to 23.12.2020 and starting from 5.1.2021 regularly between 8:30 and 16:30 o’clock. The execution of test