Advanced material is considered to be one of the key factors to lead the industry in the 21st century. For wide application to industry, the development of advanced materials should be followed by adequate testing, analysis and evaluation technologies which are used to determine physical, mechanical and chemical properties of materials.

Although every economy is able to independently perform R&D to develop advanced materials, materials testing and evaluation is a sector that need multilateral cooperation as widely accepted and reliable methods are very significant in the testing and evaluation.

As the world market of the advanced materials has rapidly grown over the past decades, multilateral cooperation for standardization of materials testing and evaluation methods has become the key issue to the development and the application of advanced materials, as well as to the reduction of technical barriers to trade.

In order to cope adequately with such trends and promote collaboration among the APEC member economies, the ANMET carries out the missions:

1. to provide appropriate interconnection for the purpose of collaborative activities in materials     testing and evaluation technologies;

2. to collaborate on the development of standardized methods of materials testing and evaluation;

3. to collaborate on the development of Certified Reference Materials (CRMs);

4. to encourage technology transfer by exchange of researchers, technical information, materials     and publication; and

5. to collaborate with each other by participating in seminars, workshops and training courses in     each other’s laboratories.