The story
KEMA was founded in 1927 as the Dutch electricity industry’s Arnhem-based test house, providing electrical safety testing and certification activities.
In the span of eighty years, The company is a risk management company actively providing independent applied research and consultancy services via an international network of subsidiaries and agencies.
On 22 December 2011, DNV acquired 74.3% of KEMA's shares, creating a global consulting and certification company within the cleaner energy, sustainability, power generation, transmission and distribution sectors.
On 12 September 2013, DNV and GL merged into DNV GL.
On 30 December 2019, the property of KEMA B.V. has been transferred from DNV GL to CESI S.p.A. The acquisition includes all the high voltage testing, inspection and certification activities carried out at the KEMA owned laboratories in Arnhem (The Netherlands) and Prague (Czech Republic). The transaction was completed on 2 March 2020 with the acquisition of the Chalfont laboratory (USA).
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