Class joins CERTANIA, strengthening European Life Sciences offering

Budrio/Munich, September 23, 2026 – Class S.r.l. (“Class”), a specialized Italian provider of qualification, validation, and environmental monitoring services for hospital environments, has joined CERTANIA Group.

Headquartered in Budrio near Bologna, Class supports nationwide public and private healthcare institutions with compliance-driven testing and monitoring solutions. Operating in safety-critical settings where stringent hygiene standards and regulatory obligations demand continuous vigilance, the team provides deep technical expertise across hygiene testing, qualification and validation for hospitals. Their four core service lines: continuous operating room monitoring, antineoplastic drug unit (ADU) validation, cleanroom performance testing, and continuous formaldehyde monitoring in pathology departments.  

Building upon roots dating back to 1991 and operating under its current company structure since 2020, Class brings decades of specialized experience in hospital safety.

The partnership marks a strategic milestone for CERTANIA, establishing a solid entry point into Italy’s high-barrier healthcare market. By moving into patient-facing hospital environments, Class naturally complements the Group’s existing pharmaceutical qualification and validation capabilities. Within CERTANIA, Class will collaborate closely with existing Life Sciences partners such as Öhmi Analytik, Groupe Icare, SPGL and FSI, to link pharmaceutical quality assurance with specialized hospital hygiene.

“Safety in hospital environments is a fundamental necessity requiring rigorous, preventive, and timely action,” says Filippo Baravelli, Managing Director of Class. “Becoming part of CERTANIA allows us to preserve our entrepreneurial identity and local roots while gaining access to a strong international group of specialized technical experts. This partnership enables us to accelerate our development, share expertise with other healthcare services specialists within CERTANIA and offer our clients an even broader foundation of quality and compliance. Our services have an excellent fit with CERTANIA’s mission of Adding Certainty to Life.”

“Expanding our Life Sciences activities into Italy and into patient-facing hospital environments is a significant step for CERTANIA,” says Karsten Xander, CEO of CERTANIA. “Class brings exceptional technical capabilities in critical process validation and hospital hygiene that perfectly complement our existing portfolio. We look forward to supporting the team in their next phase of growth and working together to build out our presence in the Italian healthcare market.”

The partnership reflects CERTANIA’s continued growth strategy of uniting specialized, knowledge-based companies that provide mission-critical testing, inspection, and certification services in regulated markets, while preserving the operational autonomy and culture that make them successful.