Black Diamond Equipment - Manufacturing & Testing

Manufacturing & Testing

Many of Black Diamond’s products, including carabiners, crampons, climbing skins, and Stoppers are made in its Utah factory. Black Diamond Equipment Asia is a Black Diamond-owned and operated facility located in Zhuhai, China that produces many of the company’s other products including cams and ice tools. Black Diamond also maintains an in-house Quality Assurance lab staffed by a team of engineers responsible for performing batch testing, stress analysis and quality control on all Black Diamond products.
ISO 9001
As of October 27, 1998, Black Diamond received ISO certification. ISO 9001 certification serves as a control process for companies with systems already in place to monitor design, manufacturing and testing.
3-sigma
Black Diamond uses a manufacturing rating standard called 3-Sigma. By batch testing climbing equipment following 3-Sigma methodologies, there is a 99.97% probability that the strength of any item taken from the same batch will be above the rating given to any given product.