Quality · Certifications & Third-Party Verification

Certified systems. Third-party test data.

The Nanjing HQ and both production bases are certified to IATF 16949:2016, and ISO 9001 has been maintained since 2002. Extracts from commissioned SEM, ICP and BET reports appear below.

IATF 16949 HQ & both plants ISO 9001 since 2002 RoHS & REACH compliant
Certificates

Certificate numbers and scopes — HQ and both plants

The information below is transcribed from certificates valid as of July 2026. Full-resolution scans are available on request.

Nanjing HQ HQ · est. 1993

IATF 16949:2016

CERTIATF 0560525 · CQC 2024A5863 VALID2024-12-28 → 2027-12-27 SCOPEManufacturing of Micro Glass Fibre Separator

ISO 9001:2015

CERT51223Q00383R0S (TGC) VALIDuntil 2026-11-16 SCOPEProduction of Micro Glass Fiber Separator for VRLA Batteries
IATF 16949:2016 certificate issued by China Quality Certification Centre (CQC) for Nanjing Alpha Glass Fibre Product Co., Ltd
Nanjing Alpha Glass Fibre Product Co., Ltd · Qixia District, Nanjing
Inner Mongolia plant Raw material + separator · 2006

IATF 16949:2016

CERTQMS-AUTO 00620CN · IATF 0535701 (SIRIM QAS) VALID2024-08-05 → 2027-08-04 SCOPEDesign and Manufacture of Micro Glass Fiber Separator

ISO 9001:2015 · ISO 14001:2015

CERT06724Q20940R1S · HBQA-24E20025R1S VALIDuntil 2027-08-26
IATF 16949:2016 quality system registration certificate issued by SIRIM QAS International for Inner Mongolia Alpha Fiberglass Products Co., Ltd
Inner Mongolia Alpha Fiberglass Products Co., Ltd · Sulige Economic Development Zone, Ordos
Chuzhou plant Fully automated · 2025

IATF 16949:2016

CERTIATF 0607228 · CQC 2026A00612 VALID2026-06-24 → 2029-06-23 SCOPEManufacturing of Micro Glass Fibre Separator

ISO 9001 · ISO 14001 · ISO 45001

CERT02926Q00093R001 · 02926E00064R001 · 02926S00051R001 VALIDuntil 2029-03-16 9001 SCOPE SUMMARYProduction of AGM separators 14001 SCOPE SUMMARYEnvironmental management activities related to AGM separator production 45001 SCOPE SUMMARYOH&S management activities related to AGM separator production
IATF 16949:2016 certificate issued by China Quality Certification Centre (CQC) for Alpha Advanced Materials (Anhui) Co., Ltd
Alpha Advanced Materials (Anhui) Co., Ltd · No. 785 Anqing Road, Chuzhou, Anhui
RoHS — compliant REACH — compliant ISO 9001 — held continuously since 2002 ISO 45001 — occupational health & safety (Chuzhou)
Third-party testing

Independent test reports

We commission external laboratories to examine fiber morphology, elemental profiles and specific surface area. The extracts below are transcribed from the source reports.

Scanning electron microscopy · Glass fiber vs synthetic fiber Thermo Scientific Prisma E · 2 000× · 15.00 kV
SEM micrograph of Alpha Beta glass fiber separator, first field, with twelve fiber diameters annotated between 1.408 and 3.383 micrometres
GLASS FIBER · FIELD 1 · 12 fibers measured · Ø 1.408–3.383 μm
SEM micrograph of Alpha Beta glass fiber separator, second field, with nine fiber diameters annotated between 1.112 and 4.138 micrometres
GLASS FIBER · FIELD 2 · 9 fibers measured · Ø 1.112–4.138 μm
SEM micrograph of a synthetic fiber separator (2026 comparison sample) with fiber diameters annotated between 1.813 and 10.61 micrometres, mixed coarse and fine strands
SYNTHETIC FIBER · COMPARISON · Ø 1.813–10.61 μm
Fiber diameter and distribution
Non-fibrous contaminant inspection
Shot and broken-fiber content
Fiber fusion and bonding condition
ICP elemental analysis · Glass fiber separator 2.02×185 22 elements · 8 samples tested
Ag 1.33
Al 48.2
Cd 0
Co 0
Cr 1.37
Cu 0.23
Fe 26.7
Mn <2.0
Ni 0.65
Pb 1.22
Hg 0 — all 8
Pt 0 — all 8
Sb 0
Sn 1.34
Sr 1.17
Ti 1.96
Zn 7.15
K 257
Na 8.26×10³
As 0
Se 0 — all 8
Te 0 — all 8

The values are transcribed as printed, but the source report does not state a unit; they must not be interpreted as ppm or used directly as specification limits. The sample is labelled glass fiber 2.02 × 185; Hg, Pt, Se and Te are recorded as zero across all eight samples. The complete 22-element × 8-sample tables are available on request.

ICP spectrometer — bench instrument with fume hood, sample vials and workstation
ICP SPECTROMETER
BET surface area · Three commissioned reports BSD-660S · static volumetric · N₂ 77.3 K · tested 2026-03-25
Glass fiber separator
1.6959
m²/g · BET multi-point
avg pore Ø8.9628 nmpore vol0.0038 cm³/gdegas150 °C · 120 min
Synthetic fiber separator
1.6989
m²/g · BET multi-point
avg pore Ø7.5343 nmpore vol0.0032 cm³/gdegas150 °C · 120 min
Pasting paper
1.5155
m²/g · BET multi-point
avg pore Ø9.5018 nmpore vol0.0036 cm³/gdegas150 °C · 120 min

Submitter: Nanjing Alpha Glass Fibre Product Co., Ltd. These are measured results for the submitted samples named in the reports; the report samples are not mapped to the current series design targets.

Third-party BET report data summary for the glass fiber separator: full surface-area, pore-volume and pore-size figures
REPORT 1 · GLASS FIBER SEPARATOR
Third-party BET report data summary for the synthetic fiber separator
REPORT 2 · SYNTHETIC FIBER SEPARATOR
Third-party BET report data summary for the pasting paper
REPORT 3 · PASTING PAPER

HCW Cleaning System · Developed In-House

In-line removal of flocculent material between fibers

The reference image shows flocculent material between fibers in a separator sample. The HCW Cleaning System, developed in-house and installed in-line, is designed to remove this type of material. The final image is an HCW-treated result from our technical package. These images are not a controlled before-and-after comparison of the same sample.

Reference SEM image of a separator sample showing flocculent material between fibers
REFERENCE IMAGE · flocculent material between fibers in a separator sample
HCW cleaning system equipment developed by Alpha Beta
HCW SYSTEM · developed by Alpha Beta, installed in-line
HCW-treated result image from the technical package
HCW-TREATED RESULT · fiber structure shown in the technical package
QC system

From raw material to shipped roll

01

First-article inspection

Every startup, shift change, specification change or process change triggers full-dimension first-article inspection under a three-level check: operator self-check, team-leader re-check, inspector verification — with retained samples.

02

Foreign-matter control

A 13-category foreign-matter watchlist with defined sources, detection methods and frequencies: per-bale raw material checks, in-line filtration and heavy-slag removal, light-table inspection of every finished roll.

03

Error-proofing (poka-yoke)

Error-proofing devices are specified at process design for safety-related and high-severity characteristics, with challenge parts to verify each device and defined backup inspection modes if a device fails.

04

Digital process control

Six production systems — pulping, beating, forming, drying, winding and thickness control — feed a central manufacturing control room monitoring output, pass rate and equipment utilization in real time.

Controlled indicators, lot by lot: thickness under defined pressures, grammage, density, tensile strength, wicking height, porosity and pore size, wet strength, acid absorption under pressure, puncture resistance, compression recovery, moisture, electrical resistance, ICP impurity content, acid weight loss and KMnO₄-reducible matter.

Diagram of the manufacturing control center: a central dashboard connected through the plant data network to the pulping, beating, forming, drying, winding and thickness control systems
Manufacturing control center · six systems on one data network
QC laboratory testing bench with the workshop visible through the window
QC lab · testing bench, workshop beyond the glass
Row of laboratory testing instruments in the quality inspection center
Raw material & separator quality inspection center
Audit & documentation

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