About

HTQS has delivered quality assurance solutions since 1987. We provide Quality Assurance services, inspections, factory technical and social audits, testing and consulting throughout greater Asia. Backed by the industry knowledge and experience of over 500 professionals on staff, in more than 65 offices and laboratories, HQTS is well-suited to be your partner for quality control services.

QTS takes pride in our core guiding principles, which are; honesty, integrity, and trust. Together these form the bedrock of our Code of Ethics.

These principles inform decisions and processes at every level of our organization through ongoing training, comprehensive monitoring, regular reporting, inspector management, project auditing, process and systems analysis and control.  We have deployed many of the methodologies used by USA banking regulators in achieving a greater level of compliance with our internal policies and directives.

HQTS is unique among inspection companies in that we have a complete department dedicated to ethics compliance and anti-bribery management.  During our years in the inspection and testing industry, HQTS has been exposed to every “trick of the trade” by factories, suppliers, inspectors, and auditors.  Collecting, collating, and analyzing 26 years of inspection and audit data has provided HQTS management with a significant knowledge base that helps our compliance group spot trends, patterns and anomalies in the inspection and audit reporting process.

Founded in 1987, HQTS has delivered quality assurance solutions throughout Asia for 26 years.  HQTS began as a division of a quasi-government testing and inspections company.  This was before foreign companies were allowed to enter the inspection, testing and quality control business in China.

In 1995 HQTS was spun out as an separate company to focus more on providing services as sub-contract inspection company. Starting with just 5 employees in 1995, HQTS has grown to nearly to 500 staff throughout greater Asia. Providing sub-contract inspection services and testing for some of the largest quality assurance providers in the world, HQTS has built an enduring legacy of quality deliverables to exacting standards.

In 2001 China joined the WTO and the market legally opened to foreign companies.  Since that time, HQTS realigned themselves into an international organization based in Hong Kong, and began working directly with retailers, buyers, wholesalers, importers, manufacturers, and etc. to grow the company organically. Today we are performing as many man-day inspections per year in Asia as the largest world-wide inspection companies.  

In 2003, key company executives took the company private,  and HQTS became independently owned and operated. We also opened our first wholly-owned testing laboratory in Hangzhou, China.

Today, we are recognized in the industry for our “best in class” quality assurance,  inspector training, and robust ethical standards.  In fact, we set the standard in dedicated ethics monitoring and anti-bribery initiatives.