Qlip
- Type
- Professional Service Provider
- Location
- Zutphen, Netherlands
- Industries
- Food safety & quality, Supply chain monitoring & traceability, Consumer health & consumer effects
- Domains
- Dairy products, Processed food products
- Technologies
- Analytical measurement, Quality sensing, Information technology, Decision support software, Platform technology, Measurement & sensing, Smart & digital, Platform & Service technologies
About Qlip
Qlip is an independent specialist in dairy analysis, inspection, certification, calibration, and related information systems. It serves the dairy chain in the Netherlands and abroad, working for dairy producers, processors, traders, retailers, and livestock-improvement organizations.
The company positions itself as a trusted TIC partner focused on food safety, quality, composition, and sustainability. Its work spans raw milk, dairy products, farm-level quality assurance, factory and retail-related certification, and digital data exchange across the dairy chain.
Core Values
- Analytical: Qlip emphasizes careful analysis, precision, and punctuality as the basis of its work.
- Reliable: The company presents itself as transparent, professional, and loyal to its customers, with a strong focus on dependable results and services.
- Expert: Qlip highlights deep dairy-sector knowledge, supported by structured training and close awareness of market developments.
- Solution-oriented: It aims to work proactively and creatively with customers and partners to deliver practical solutions and the best possible results.
Unique Aspects
- Broad dairy-chain coverage: Qlip works across the full chain, from farm and milk collection to processing, retail, and livestock improvement.
- Large testing scale: The company states that it analyzes more than 13 million cow and goat milk samples annually and performs nearly 700,000 chemical and microbiological analyses on dairy products.
- Strong accreditation base: Qlip holds six accreditations, including ISO/IEC 17020, 17021-1, 17025, 17043, 17065, and 17034, which support its inspection, testing, proficiency testing, product certification, and reference-material activities.
- Digital dairy platform: Its Milk Competence Center provides data systems for dairy companies and farmers, helping connect quality, payment, and sustainability information.
- Sustainability certification role: Qlip certifies and checks multiple sustainability schemes in dairy, including Weidemelk, On the way to PlanetProof, VLOG, and the eco-activity extended grazing scheme.