Three different people ask for three different things
Buyers tend to treat "certificates" as one folder. It is really three folders that answer to three different parties: your own quality system, your market's regulators, and the carrier moving a pressurised cylinder.
| Document | What it actually covers | Who asks for it |
|---|---|---|
| ISO 9001 / ISO 14001 | The factory's quality and environmental management system — and the stated scope, which on ours is the R&D and assembly of soda makers | Your own sourcing or quality team |
| BSCI social audit | Labour conditions and social responsibility at the manufacturing site | European retailers and larger brands |
| LFGB (EU) / FDA (US) | Food-contact safety of the materials that touch drinking water — bottle, seals, tubing | Customs, retail compliance, your insurer |
| RoHS / REACH | Restricted substances and chemical safety in materials and electronics | EU importers, retail listings |
| PET GB 4806.6 | The Chinese food-contact standard for PET — relevant when the bottle is moulded in China | Chinese export inspection and some buyers' own specs |
| Packaging PPWR | Packaging and packaging waste compliance for the EU market | EU retail compliance |
| CO₂ CoS / MSDS | Certificate of conformity and safety data sheet for food-grade carbon dioxide | Carriers, customs, and any buyer filling cylinders |
| TPED / DOT | Pressure-equipment approval for cylinders — the EU and US schemes respectively | Carriers and customs wherever cylinders are shipped |
What each one is really telling you
ISO 9001 is about the system, not the product
A quality-system certificate says the factory has a documented process and that an auditor checked it. It does not say your machine will pass your market's tests. The part worth reading is the scope line: a certificate for "electrical appliances" and a certificate for "the R&D and assembly of soda makers" are different documents, and only one of them is about your product.
Food-contact documents are where the bottle lives
On a soda maker the material that matters is the one holding the water: the bottle, the seal and the tubing. This is why the bottle is not a detail you can leave to a supplier — if the factory buys bottles in, the food-contact story belongs to someone else's paperwork. We blow-mould ours in a 300 m² dust-free workshop, so the material and the process are both in the same building as the machine.
RoHS and REACH are about what is in the product
RoHS covers restricted substances, mainly in electronics. REACH covers chemical substances more broadly. Both are usually requested as test reports rather than certificates, and both are worth reading for the model name on the cover — a report for a different machine is not evidence about yours.
The cylinder is a separate project
A CO₂ cylinder is pressure equipment, and it travels under its own rules. Depending on the destination you will be asked for approval under TPED (Europe) or DOT (United States), plus a certificate of conformity and a safety data sheet for the gas itself. Buyers routinely discover this after the machine is booked, which is a bad week to learn it.
How to check a certificate in four minutes
- Get the number, not the picture. Ask for the registration or report number and the issuing body.
- Look it up on the issuer's register. Most certification bodies publish a searchable database. A number that cannot be found is a scanned decoration.
- Read the scope and the model. The document has to name what you are buying, and the legal entity has to match the one on your invoice.
- Check the dates. Expired is not the same as non-existent, but it does mean your retail listing may stall later.
What we hold
We publish ours rather than sending a folder on request: ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 (issued 2025-08-12, valid to 2028-08-05, scope — R&D and assembly of soda makers), a BSCI social audit, packaging PPWR, LFGB and FDA for food contact, RoHS and REACH for materials, PET GB 4806.6, and CoS, MSDS, TPED and DOT for the CO₂ cylinders. Scans of the originals, with the registration numbers, are on the patents and certificates page.
The other half of the same question is the design side: 60 granted patents across 4° and MIA, 56 of them in force. Those are also public documents, and the list is downloadable from the same page.
Put it in the schedule, not in the panic
Ask for the documents you need at the quotation stage and write the ones that do not exist yet into the timeline as a task with a name against it. A certification you have to generate adds weeks; one the factory already holds adds nothing. Knowing which is which is the difference between launching on the date you promised your buyer and explaining a delay.
Tell us where you sell and what you are shipping, and we will tell you which documents you will be asked for — including the ones we do not hold and would have to run for your product.