Baltic Control A/S, a Denmark-based inspection and certification firm with an office in Miami, has been approved by the Malaysian government to perform mandatory preshipment inspections of scrap metal and recovered fiber to Malaysia. The company is working in cooperation with Malaysia-based Sirim QAS International.
“We shall look forward to assist all exporters worldwide to obtain the required pre-shipment certificate for paper and metal waste shipments,” Baltic Control states on its website in a Dec. 4 announcement.
A Sirim QAS guidelines document on the recovered fiber inspection process obtained by Recycling Today indicates Malaysia’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has made such inspections mandatory for inbound scrap paper shipments.
The multistep process portrayed in the guidelines includes both a preshipping inspection and a postshipment visual inspection and document verification process.
The same document indicates European BS EN 643:2019 (EN643) standards will be used as the basis for sampling thresholds. A document spelling out the 2014 updates to those standards can be found on this webpage.
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