After a full week of detailed evaluations by Underwriter's Laboratories UL-DQS - one of the TOP 5 certification bodies in the world - Flexial Corporation, a Member company of the Global BOA Group, headquartered in Stutensee, Germany, was successfully registered to the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) AS9100 Revision C standard for the aviation, space, and defense industries.

According to Bill Black, the President of the International Aerospace Quality Group, "the revised quality management system standard is a vital step towards achieving the IAQG goal of transforming the on-time, on-quality delivery (OTOQD) performance of the aviation, space, and defense industry."

The registration includes verification of conformance to the AS9100C (Americas), JISQ9100C (Asia-Pacific), and EN9100C (European) standards, ensuring Flexial Corporation's Quality Management Systems are approved to do business in the aviation, space, and defense sectors across the globe. According to Gary Cummings, Director of Business Development for the company, "The goal of the International Aerospace Quality Group - the control agency for the AS9100 standard – is to ensure member organizations and certified suppliers have adopted the culture and established the necessary controls to continuously improve product quality and delivery while maintaining competitive cost control throughout the value stream."

Flexial Corporation was the first company in its industry to achieve this goal - and is one of the first 100 companies in the Americas to be registered.

Based in Cookeville, Tennessee, Flexial manufactures highly engineered edge-welded metal bellows for fluid management, sealing, sensing and actuation applications. Products include welded bellows accumulators, reservoirs and surge arresters as well as key components used in pressure, temperature, altitude, fuel control and other sensing systems. Flexial products are in use on a wide variety of commercial and military aircraft around the world including the Airbus A350 and A380, Boeing 737, F-16, F-22, F-35, Global Hawk and Fire Scout.

Flexial's products are also in use onboard numerous space systems, including the International Space Station. The Company counts many leading aerospace primes as customers including Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Raytheon, GE Aviation, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Northrop Grumman, Parker Hannifin, and many others. Flexial's Maintenance Free Accumulators have become a key component in reducing aircraft fleet maintenance costs with MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) rates that exceed the life of the aircraft.

With some 20 subsidiaries and shareholdings in eleven countries as well as sales and service offices in strategic industrial countries, the BOA Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of flexible mechanical elements for the automotive industry and for a wide range of industrial applications. The BOA Group develops, produces and distributes worldwide stainless steel components for motor management, exhaust systems and side components for vehicles. In the industrial division, the BOA Group delivers gas tight and flexible elements for applications in energy technology and technical construction: railway, shipyards, vacuum technologies, measurement and control and a host of other applications.

Acquired by the BOA Group in 2011, Flexial Corporation adds advanced aviation, space, and defense technologies to the Group's already broad spectrum footprint in the automotive, energy, industrial, and construction business sectors.