Sinto Advanced Ceramics Europe GmbH has been certified to ISO 9001:2015 following an audit by TÜV SÜD in which no non-conformities were identified. The certificate, No. G951 26 0419, is valid from 24 July 2026 to 23 July 2029 and covers the company’s quality management for the additive manufacturing of technical ceramics.
The audit is the first the company has completed under Japanese ownership. It follows the acquisition of Bosch Advanced Ceramics by the Sintokogio Group, which became effective on 1 January 2026. ISO 9001 has been held continuously since 2017, first under the name CeriX, later as Bosch Advanced Ceramics, making the recertification the point at which a change of parent company could have shown up as a gap in process control. It did not.
“The successful certification demonstrates that we have seamlessly maintained our high quality standards throughout the ownership transition,” said Dejan Licinovic, Quality Manager at Sinto Advanced Ceramics Europe GmbH, who led the certification process. “Completing the audit without a single non-conformity is a strong reflection of the quality of our processes and the commitment of our entire team.”
Auditing a chain that extends beyond the printer
ISO 9001 is the most widely recognised standard for quality management systems, providing a structured framework for managing and continuously improving processes. For a manufacturer of additively manufactured ceramic components, the significance lies in how much of the production route falls inside that framework. Printing is one stage among several, and each one carries its own failure modes.
“Additive manufacturing of technical ceramics involves a highly complex process chain that extends far beyond the printing process itself,” Licinovic explained. “From component design and printing to debinding and sintering, every step must be precisely coordinated and carefully controlled. This certification confirms our commitment to ensuring that these processes are transparent, controlled, and fully reproducible.”
That controlled, reproducible output is what the company’s target sectors buy. Its components go into medical technology, semiconductors, machinery and equipment manufacturing, and aerospace, industries in which reliable product quality and repeatable processes are prerequisites rather than selling points, and in which a supplier’s audit record forms part of the customer’s own qualification evidence.
Managing Director Nikolai Sauer described the result as a milestone for the business. “This certification is the result of an outstanding team effort,” he said, thanking colleagues and customers before adding that it “reinforces our commitment to being a reliable partner for the additive manufacturing of technical ceramics, now as part of the Sintokogio Group.”
Certification as the entry ticket to regulated industries
The gap here is continuity, not market access. Medical, semiconductor, machinery and aerospace customers had qualified the company’s parts against an audited quality system, and a carve-out with a new owner and a new name is exactly what puts that in doubt. A clean audit, on a certificate running to 2029, says nothing behind the rebrand moved.
That is the same currency other ceramic additive manufacturing specialists trade in. Lithoz has held ISO 9001 since 2016 and added ISO 13485 in May 2025 for customers building clinical-grade devices. CEO Johannes Homa described the standard as a door opener into the most tightly regulated industries rather than a paperwork exercise;the certificate, not the printer, is what gets a supplier considered.
The limits of that currency are being addressed too. ASTM International is working with Additive Center to qualify additive suppliers to semiconductor manufacturers, assessing them against AM-specific standards including ISO/ASTM 52901, 52904 and 52920 alongside ISO 9001, an implicit acknowledgement that a general management-system standard was never written for layer-by-layer production. Where such a scheme takes hold, ISO 9001 becomes the floor rather than the qualification.
For now, the floor is where the ceramic AM market still transacts. A clean audit says the process chain came through a change of owner intact. For customers qualifying ceramic parts, that continuity is the product.
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Featured image shows The successful ISO 9001:2015 certification confirms the high quality standards maintained by Sinto Advanced Ceramics Europe GmbH: Managing Director Nikolai Sauer (left) and Quality Manager Dejan Licinovic (right). Photo via Sinto Advanced Ceramics Europe GmbH.
