Control over every
material certificate.
Metal wholesalers and manufacturers rely on Verinor to automate material certificates and all other supplier and customer documentation — faster flows, fewer errors and full control for the quality manager. With digital product passports (DPP) built in from the start.
Your quality manager gets real-time status and control — not a manual PDF hunt before every audit.
280 material designations · 3,800+ threshold values · 193 aliases (UNS/JIS/ASTM etc.) in the database
The problem
Material certificates are still handled by hand.
Every delivery of steel and metal comes with a material certificate (EN 10204). Today they are entered manually, checked by hand against requirements and grades, and copied on into customer documentation. It is a legal requirement, time-consuming and error-prone — and the errors always look small until they don't:
- A misread carbon value — the certificate is approved although the chemistry is outside the grade's limit. Discovered at your customer's audit, not at your inspection.
- The wrong edition of the standard — the certificate cites EN 10088-2:2014, your requirements assume the 2024 edition. The values are compared against the wrong table.
- A missing certificate nobody chases — the delivery is received, the hold is released, and three months later the end customer demands documentation that never arrived.
- A heat number that doesn't match — the certificate covers a different heat than the one in stock. Traceability is broken without anyone noticing.
If this sounds familiar, you are not alone — this is everyday life in most quality functions. A single missed deviation can mean a rejected delivery, an audit finding or a recall — and the cost always lands downstream, where it is largest.
The solution
An AI platform that reads, validates and delivers.
Read in
Material certificates — and every other supplier document: inspection reports, declarations, test certificates — are captured automatically from email, folders and your ERP, and structured with AI.
Validate & flag
Certificates are validated against limit values per grade, product form and standard; every other document type against its requirement profile — and deviations are flagged. You confirm.
Deliver
Outgoing customer documentation — certificates, declarations, the whole package — is generated automatically, traceably, with a digital product passport per delivery.
Verinor is the intelligence layer — we flag what needs attention. Your quality function owns the signature. We don't replace the certifier; we make the inspection fast, complete and traceable.
See what Verinor sees
One certificate. Every value checked.
This is what an incoming 3.1 certificate looks like through Verinor's eyes — every extracted value is validated against the standard's limit values and your own requirements.
| C | Si | Mn | P | S | CEV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.16 | 0.32 | 1.42 | 0.018 | 0.012 | 0.41 |
| ReH (MPa) | Rm (MPa) | A (%) | KV −20 °C (J) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 372 | 545 | 24 | 41 |
Scanned PDF, 2 pages · read & structured by Verinor in seconds
- Grade S355J2 matches purchase order PO-2026-1148
- Chemistry within EN 10025-2: C 0.16 ≤ 0.17 · Mn 1.42 ≤ 1.60 · P 0.018 ≤ 0.025
- CEV 0.41 ≤ 0.45 (weldability)
- ReH 372 ≥ 355 MPa · Rm 545 within 470–630 MPa
- Impact toughness 41 J ≥ 27 J at −20 °C (J2)
- Heat 84512 matches delivery, item & stock location
- Certificate type 3.1 meets the requirement matrix for the end customer
- Flagged: S 0.012 passes the standard (≤ 0.025) but is above your tightened requirement ≤ 0.010 for this customer — awaiting your confirmation
The standard is not enough — it is your requirement profile that decides. Verinor flags; you decide.
Why not just OCR?
Reading the document is only the beginning.
Generic OCR/document AI extracts text. But a material certificate is not text — it is a claim that must be checked against standard, requirements and order. That is where the difference lies.
| Manual / Excel | Generic OCR & document AI | Verinor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reads the certificate (scanned or digital) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Validates chemistry & mechanics against limit values per grade, product form and standard | By hand, spot checks | ✗ | ✓ automatically, every cert |
| Edition-aware — the right edition of the standard, including superseded ones | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Matches cert → purchase order, item & heat | By hand | ✗ | ✓ |
| Your own requirement matrices per customer, order, supplier & item | In someone's head / binders | ✗ | ✓ |
| Two-way ERP integration, turnkey | ✗ | ✗ (DIY API) | ✓ |
| Outgoing customer documentation packaged automatically | By hand | ✗ | ✓ |
| Monitors & chases missing supplier documents | When someone remembers | ✗ | ✓ automatically |
| Audit-ready traceability, cert ↔ check ↔ decision | Scattered | ✗ | ✓ |
| Digital product passports (DPP) per item & heat | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ DPP-ready |
| Requires suppliers to join / change how they work | No | No | No — works with the certificates you already receive |
| Time to first results | — | Integration project | Running in minutes · first flags within 48 h |
Features
The whole flow — from the supplier's certificate to your customer's documents.
Incoming · supplier documents
Automatic capture & matching
Verinor reads supplier documents automatically from email, supplier portals and APIs — extracts the content and links every material certificate to the right purchase order, item and heat.
Validation against requirements
Every certificate is checked automatically against the requirements of the purchase order — right grade, standard, limit values and your own settings. Deviations are flagged immediately.
Requirement matrices per customer, order, supplier & item
Define which requirements apply — per customer, customer order, supplier, purchase order or item — once, and let Verinor apply them automatically on every delivery.
Automatic supplier follow-up
Verinor keeps track of which suppliers have not submitted their documentation and follows up automatically — no manual reminders, no gaps.
Your own measurements
XRF & LIBS — your own measurements
Easily register measurements from XRF and LIBS instruments and link them directly to your ERP, the item and the heat — declared and measured side by side.
Outgoing · customer documentation
Automatic packaging at dispatch
At dispatch, all customer documentation is packaged automatically and sent via any channel — email, API or upload to your customer's portal.
Quality, traceability & insights
Deviation handling & digital quarantine
A clear interface for handling deviations and placing material in digital quarantine — nothing slips through unintentionally.
Complete traceability
Full traceability from incoming document to manual approvals — every step logged and audit-ready.
Digital product passports (DPP) — ready from day one
Verinor generates digital product passports per item and heat from data the platform has already structured: material composition, origin/mill, heat traceability and the certificates as evidence — machine-readable and shareable with your customers. The final format is set in the ESPR delegated acts for steel; the data and traceability the passport requires, you will already have when they enter into force.
Supplier insights & reports
See how different suppliers manage their documentation over time — insights that make purchasing and quality smarter.
Built for your ERP — Monitor two-way & turnkey today, more built per customer
Monitor is turnkey today. Other systems are built as part of your implementation — in weeks, not months.
Documents
The documents Verinor reads and validates.
Material certificates are the core — but Verinor handles the whole family of delivery and customer documentation.
Material certificates (EN 10204)
Type 2.1, 2.2, 3.1 and 3.2 — mill, inspection and analysis certificates (CoA). Chemistry and mechanics (tensile, impact, hardness) are read and validated from the certificate.
Heat treatment certificates
Hardening, quenching & tempering, annealing — linked to heat and order.
Welding documents
WPS, WPQR and welder qualifications (PED, EN 15085).
NDT reports
UT, MT, PT, RT — non-destructive testing.
PMI — material identification
Positive material identification (XRF/OES) — declared vs measured.
Pressure & leak test certificates
Hydrostatic and leak testing — pressure equipment flows.
Dimensional inspection reports
Dimensional control and CMM reports.
PPAP / First Article
FAI and PPAP — the automotive chain's approval documents.
REACH & RoHS declarations
Substance content and compliance (SVHC).
DoP — Declaration of Performance
EN 1090 / CPR / CE marking.
Declarations of conformity
CoC — conformity against requirements and standard.
ISO 9001 certificates
Your supplier's management system certificate — validity, scope and issuer are monitored.
16 document types with full type support today — reads any format, scanned PDF or digital. In addition, delivery notes, freight documents (CMR), drawings, quality plans and safety data sheets are recognized and sorted automatically in the flow. New types are added continuously, prioritized by our customers' real flows.
Fewer errors
Automatic validation catches deviations before they become problems.
Faster flows
Minutes instead of hours per delivery — less manual work.
Always audit-ready
Full traceability at every step. When the auditor asks, the answer is already on file.
DPP-ready
Digital product passports are generated from data you already have in Verinor — in place before the regulation requires them.
Do the math
A company with 50–100 employees typically spends 0.5–1.5 full-time roles handling incoming and outgoing material documentation by hand — SEK 400,000–1,000,000 per year in pure working time.
200 certs/month × 15 min/cert × SEK 450/h ≈ SEK 270,000/year — just in entry and checking, before the cost of missed errors.
Against Standard from SEK 5,000/month, the payback period is measured in weeks, not years — and the math is proven with your own hours during the pilot.
With your numbers
Conservatively assumes 80% of the time is automated. The ROI figure is calculated against Standard's entry level of SEK 5,000/month — if your company sits higher in the size ladder, the figure is correspondingly lower. The cost of missed errors (rejected deliveries, audit findings) comes on top. Calculate freely — no email required.
For the quality manager
From administrator to strategist.
Today the quality role is consumed by administration: entering values, chasing suppliers, digging through binders before audits. It is work that demands accuracy — but not your judgment. Verinor takes the repetitive part; your time moves to what actually requires a quality manager:
- The decisions, not the data entry. The AI reads and checks everything — you spend your time on the flagged deviations, the parts of the documents where your judgment decides.
- Supplier quality over time. Who delivers clean, who gets flagged often, where does the risk sit? Data you never had time to compile — now a dashboard.
- The requirement profile towards your customers. Time to work proactively with requirement matrices, tolerances and your customers' real needs — instead of reactively putting out fires.
- Always audit-ready. Traceability is built automatically in the flow. The audit becomes a viewing, not a project.
With real-time status across the whole document and material flow, quality becomes a visible function in the boardroom — not a binder in the archive.
Who it's for
Metal wholesalers and companies that use metal.
If you handle metal and its delivery and customer documentation — foundries, mills, manufacturers, processors, wholesalers — Verinor automates the work that currently steals your time. Deepest value where quality and criticality are highest.
Quality
Time moves from data entry to judgment — deviations, supplier risk and the requirement profile. The role grows →
Warehouse & goods receiving
Certificates are matched automatically to the right delivery, item and heat.
Purchasing
Supplier follow-up and insights into who manages their documentation.
Sales & dispatch
All customer documentation is packaged and sent automatically.
Pricing
Two editions — start low-friction, grow into the depth.
Basic is running in minutes, no integration. Standard is the full flow with two-way ERP. The price scales with your size.
All editions run in Microsoft Azure, EU region — GDPR-compliant, the same secure environment your IT already trusts.
Basic
Read, validate & flag
SEK 0 implementation · running in minutes
- Forward email / watched folder / upload
- AI reads incoming certificates + documents
- Validation against the standard's limit values → flags deviations
- Edition-aware — the right edition of the standard, including superseded ones; limit values per product form (plate/bar/tube)
- Deviation overview
- Search & send — create delivery packages manually from the archive (search by heat, supplier, grade, PO) — logged and traceable
- Web dashboard · validation reports (PDF) · full export
- Unlimited users — no per-user fees
- Azure EU-hosted · GDPR · no lock-in
Standard
Managed two-way ERP
scales with size · implementation from SEK 25,000*
- Everything in Basic, plus:
- An interface adapted to exactly your process — views, roles and flows are shaped during implementation
- Integration with email, supplier portals & APIs — fetches and delivers documents
- Two-way ERP integration (Monitor and others) — turnkey
- Auto-matching cert → order, item, heat
- Your own requirements & requirement matrices — per supplier, grade, customer, order and item (minimum cert type, tightened tolerances, formalities, review mode)
- Automatic supplier follow-up
- Notifications in Teams & Outlook
- API — your data & verdicts in your own systems
- Your own measurements (XRF/LIBS)
- Automatic outgoing packaging — email / API / customer portal
- Deviations + digital quarantine · complete traceability · digital product passports (DPP)
- Reports, dashboards & supplier insights
- Unlimited users — no per-user fees
Enterprise
Data sovereignty
you own the encryption key
- Everything in Standard, plus:
- Azure EU — runs in Azure's secured environment
- Bring Your Own Key — pull the key and the data becomes unreadable
- Retention policies — you control the lifespan
- Own tenant / on-prem for defence & government
- Unlimited users — no per-user fees
All plans include unlimited users — no per-seat surprises. Standard scales from SEK 5,000/month with your size. No exit costs — 3-month rolling contract, your data exports whenever you want. Prices excl. VAT. Founding terms for early customers.
* The implementation (from SEK 25,000) covers ERP connection, configuration, requirement setup — and adapting the interface to your process. Standard additionally includes a managed onboarding (~3 months, tapering — Verinor's specialists reviewing behind the AI), quoted as its own line. Historical archive ingestion is quoted separately by volume. Integration with specific document portals and customer/supplier APIs, as well as larger adaptations, are quoted at a fixed price after a review. Size refers to the group of companies using the service.
Frequently asked questions
Briefly, how it works.
Does Verinor replace our quality manager or certifier?
No — the opposite: Verinor makes the quality role more important. We read, validate and flag; your quality function owns the approval — that decision requires their judgment and mandate, and it should. The difference is what their time goes to: instead of data entry and binder hunts, they work on the decisions, the supplier risk and the requirement profile — with complete evidence for every call. Verinor is the intelligence layer that makes inspection fast, complete and traceable — the quality manager becomes the strategist, not the administrator.
Which standards are supported?
Certificates & content: EN 10204 (type 2.1 / 2.2 / 3.1 / 3.2) and EN 10168 (the certificate's field structure).
The database today: 280 material designations · 193 aliases (UNS/JIS/ASTM/GB etc.) · 3,800+ threshold values for chemistry and mechanics, spread across 94 standards with chemistry limits and 101 with mechanical limits.
Limit-value validation per grade, product form and edition — standards with limit values loaded:
European: EN 10025 (structural steel S235–S960) · EN 10088 (stainless) · EN 10216 (seamless tubes) · EN 10028 (pressure vessel plate) · EN 10083 (quenched & tempered steel) · EN 10210-1 (hollow sections) · EN 573-3 & EN 755-2 (aluminium).
ASTM: A240, A276, A312, A351, A995 (stainless plate/bar/pipe/castings) · A105, A350 (flanges & forgings).
International: JIS G3101, G3106, G4303/G4304/G4305 · GB/T 1591, GB/T 700 · IS 2062 · KS D 3503 · API 5L · NORSOK M-630.
Edition-aware: certificates are validated against the edition the certificate actually cites — including older and superseded editions. Framework context: EN 1090 (DoP/CE) and PED.
Limit-value coverage is expanded continuously — grades and standards are prioritized by our customers' real certificate flows, and if your grade is missing, the limit values are added within a few working days. We review your actual grades before onboarding, so coverage is in place when the flow starts.
Does it require a long integration?
No. Verinor connects to your ERP two-way — and you see first results on your own certificates within 48 hours, without months of project work.
What happens with uncertain readings — can we trust the AI from day one?
Standard includes a managed onboarding: Verinor's specialists review the certificates behind the AI — we review the technical side, you make the decisions. Everything that requires your knowledge of your customers and requirements (accepting a deviation, releasing material) always stays with you. Automation is extended step by step as each combination of grade, standard and certificate layout proves itself — and we report continuously on which ones have graduated. In Basic, and after onboarding, low-confidence readings are flagged for your confirmation: the AI does the heavy lifting, a human confirms the uncertain.
Where is the data stored — and do we own it?
Azure EU-hosted — runs in Microsoft's secured environment, EU region, GDPR-compliant. You own your data, no lock-in, export whenever you want. For strict security requirements: BYOK — you own the encryption key in your own Azure; pull it and the data becomes unreadable to everyone but you. Retention policies let you control the lifespan.
And straight about the AI: your documents are never shared with other customers and are never sent to external AI providers for model training. What you confirm and correct in Verinor does, however, make the validation sharper — for you and for the platform; that is how the system learns. Industry-wide, anonymized comparisons are always an active choice you make, never something that happens in the background.
Do our suppliers have to join or change anything?
No — nothing. Verinor works with the certificates you already receive, exactly as they look today: PDFs by email, scanned paper, supplier portals. No supplier has to join a platform, enter data or change how they work. You get full value on day one, on your own — unlike network solutions where the benefit waits for both sides to sign up.
Can Verinor handle scanned, photographed and older certificates?
Yes. The AI reads scanned PDFs, photos and older layouts — not just digital originals. Certificates with several heats on the same document are handled, and each heat is linked to the right delivery.
Can we load our historical archive?
Yes. Existing binders and folders of old certificates can be batch-read so the whole archive becomes searchable and traceable — not just new deliveries. Historical ingestion is quoted separately by volume. A good starting point: the last 12 months.
How does the ERP integration work in practice?
Verinor reads purchase orders, items and suppliers from your ERP and writes document status back — two-way, turnkey, without your own integration project. Monitor is turnkey today; more systems are built per customer following the same pattern — in weeks, not months. The implementation is done by us at a fixed quoted price — from SEK 25,000, including adapting the interface to your process.
Can we build our own interface or fetch data via API?
Yes. Standard includes API access to your own data (documents, extracted values, validation history) and to the verdicts — so you can display everything in your own portals, dashboards or BI tools. Your interface, your choice. Two things apply: every verdict always carries a Verinor verification ID (so it can be checked and not forged, wherever it is shown), and the standards limit-value database is never exposed in raw form — values are delivered inside verdicts with a standard reference.
What does it require from our IT department?
Basic: nothing — forward an email address or point at a folder, done in minutes. Standard: we set up the ERP connection; your IT approves the access. No server, no installation, no clients to maintain.
What happens if we cancel?
3-month rolling contract — no lock-in period, no exit fees. All your data (documents, extracted values, validation history) is exported in open formats. Leaving should be easy; that is why customers stay for the right reasons.
Which languages does Verinor read?
Certificates in Swedish, English, German and other European languages are read directly — mill certificates are multilingual in practice and the AI is language-independent. The interface is in Swedish and English.
What is a DPP — and how does Verinor help us?
Digital product passports (DPP) are introduced through the EU's ESPR regulation (Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, in force since 2024). Steel and iron are among the prioritized product categories — the requirement rolls out through delegated acts over the coming years. A product passport must carry machine-readable data on, among other things, material composition, origin and traceability through the chain.
That is exactly the data Verinor already structures in the daily flow: chemistry and mechanics per heat (from the certificates), mill/origin, heat traceability from supplier to customer delivery, and the certificates themselves as evidence. Verinor generates the passport per item and heat from that data — machine-readable, shareable with your customers, with the full chain behind every value. You don't need a separate DPP project: the document flow you are automating anyway is the DPP foundation.
We have our own requirements beyond the standard — can you handle that?
Yes, that is the core — in Standard, Verinor validates against your actual requirement profile, not just the standard's table.
In Basic, every certificate is validated against the standard's limit values per grade, product form and edition — deviations are flagged, you confirm.
In Standard, you add your own requirement profile on top: minimum certificate type per supplier ("from X we always require 3.1"), tightened tolerances ("S ≤ 0.010 on all 1.4404 — even where the standard allows more"), formal requirements (heat number, complete chemistry, signature), review mode per supplier — and requirement matrices per customer, order and item (fetched from your ERP) applied automatically on every delivery, plus active monitoring of documents that should have arrived but haven't.
See Verinor on your own data.
The 48-hour proof: send us 5–10 of your own certificates — see the first flags within 48 hours, before you pay anything. No installation, no commitment.
Send your certs — see the flags within 48 hOr book 30 minutes — no sales deck, we look at your own certificates: pontus.granborg@cloudfox.se