How this directory works

Where the information on Quodaris comes from.

Every supplier profile here says how it was created. Some are written by the companies themselves. Others we researched from public sources, before the company had the chance to take the profile over. This page explains how we research, what we check, what we leave out, and how we order the results.

This is my company How results are ranked

Three kinds of profile, and how to tell them apart

Every listing carries a mark that says who wrote it. On a profile page the mark sits above the company name. In lists and search results it sits at the end of the first line.

The three kinds of profile on Quodaris.
What the mark says	Who wrote it	What it covers
Researched	The quodaris team, from public sources.	Who the company is, where it is, and what it makes. Company facts only.
Claimed	The company itself, free of charge.	The same facts, plus its logo, its own description and its own links.
Capability profile	The company itself, on a paid subscription.	All of the above, plus certifications, manufacturing processes, materials, delivery countries and languages.

The mark says who wrote the profile. It says nothing about how good the company is. We do not rate suppliers. A researched profile is not a weaker company, only a shorter entry.

Where the information comes from

In this order, and from nowhere else:

The company’s own website. The imprint, the about page, the product and process pages, the certificate pages. This is the source for almost everything we publish.
Official company registers. Only for the legal name, the legal form, the registered address and the VAT number.

What we do not use

We do not take information from other directories, from competitor websites or from press coverage written by third parties. A directory that copies another directory copies its mistakes as well, and then keeps them alive for years. If we cannot find something on the company’s own website, we leave it out.

How a researched profile is written

Every fact has a source

Each factual statement has to be traceable to a page on the company’s own website. We keep the source address in our records, so that any statement can be checked again later.

No opinions, no ratings

We do not write that a company is a market leader, or reliable, or innovative. We write what it makes, what it machines, where it delivers. Where a company makes a claim like that on its own site, we can only repeat it as the company’s own words.

A thin website gets a short profile

If a website does not carry enough that we can verify, the profile stays short, or the description stays empty. We never pad a text to make an entry look fuller than the evidence behind it.

An empty field stays empty. We do not guess, and we do not show a placeholder where we have nothing to show.

We use software, including AI, to collect and structure the information and to draft the descriptions. It works against a written editorial rulebook that sets out what may be said and what may not. A person checks samples from every batch against the company’s own website before it goes live. If we still get something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Which companies we list

The directory covers suppliers to the manufacturing industry in the European Economic Area: manufacturers, distributors, system integrators, service providers and software providers.

Registered companies only. GmbH, B.V., S.A., Sp. z o.o., Ltd and comparable legal forms. Sole traders and freelancers are not listed. That is also why a researched profile never contains personal data.
A valid VAT number from the European Economic Area. Without one, a company does not enter the directory at all.
A working company website. We check that the site is reachable before a profile goes live.
One company, one profile. Where a company runs two domains, or has merged into another company, we keep a single entry rather than two that contradict each other.
Not listed: universities and research institutes, associations, trade magazines and publishers, and event organisers. They are not suppliers, and a buyer filtering for one does not want to find them.

We also check the EU sanctions lists before a profile is published.

What we never publish

No personal data. No names, direct phone numbers or personal email addresses of employees. Company data only.
No logo on a researched profile. A logo belongs to the company. It appears once the company has claimed its profile and uploaded it.
No visitor lists. Buyers can research suppliers here without an account. We do not build lists of who viewed which profile, and we do not pass such lists on.
No ratings, stars or reviews. We have no opinion on which supplier is better, and we do not sell one.
No capability claims that we researched ourselves. Certifications, manufacturing processes, materials, delivery terms and languages come from the company, never from us. Until a company tells us, those fields stay empty.

How current a profile is

A researched profile carries the month in which we last looked it up, for example Researched 08/2026. That is the date of the research, not the date of the last change in our database. If we run a technical update across thousands of entries, the date does not move, because nothing was researched.

Once a company claims its profile, the date becomes Profile updated MM/YYYY and the company controls it. Our editorial label disappears at that point, because the text is no longer ours.

How results are ranked

The rule is deliberately simple, and this is all of it:

Capability profiles first. Then every other profile. Within each group, the most recently updated first, and claimed profiles above profiles that nobody has claimed yet.

Payment affects the order. A Capability Profile is a paid annual subscription, and ranking ahead of the other profiles in its category is part of what it buys. We say so here, and next to every sort control, because a paid position that looks like a neutral result is not an honest result.

Nothing else moves a company up. We do not sell individual positions, we do not sell keywords, there is no bidding, and there is no hidden quality score. The one thing that lifts a free profile is keeping it up to date, which is also the only thing that makes the directory better for the people searching it.

Why some filters cover only part of the directory

The basic filters cover every entry: category, country, region, supplier type, company size and target industries. The detailed capability filters, such as certifications, manufacturing processes, materials, delivery countries and languages, only search profiles that companies maintain themselves. Those details are a company’s own statement about itself. We do not research them, so a company we have not heard from cannot appear in them.

See pricing for what a Capability Profile costs and what it includes.

Is this your company?

If we have created a profile for your company, you can take it over, correct it or have it removed. All three are free, and none of them involves a phone call from us.

Start from the profile itself

Open your company’s page in the directory. Every profile we researched carries the links to claim it, to report a correction and to ask for removal. That is the quickest route, because the link already tells us which profile you mean, so you do not have to describe it.

Cannot find your company? Write to [email protected] with the company name and your website address, and we will look for it.

How we verify a claim: We compare the domain of your email address with the website on the profile. If the two do not match, we ask for a company document instead and check it by hand.
What claiming costs: Nothing, now or later. A claimed profile is free and stays free. The paid Capability Profile is a separate decision that you can make at any time, or never.
If you ask us to remove it: We remove the profile within 7 working days of your request. You do not have to give a reason, and we will not ask for one. We then block the domain, so that the profile is not created again by mistake.

Claim your profile Correct or remove a profile

Questions we get asked

Did these companies ask to be listed?

No. A directory is only useful to a buyer if the categories are filled on the first day, so we research profiles before the companies take them over. Every researched profile says so on its face, and every company can claim it, correct it or have it removed.

Do you use AI to write the profiles?

We use software, including AI, to collect the information and draft the descriptions. It works to a written rulebook: only facts that can be checked on the company’s own website, no opinions, no superlatives, and a shorter text rather than a padded one. People check samples before publication, and we correct anything you report to us.

Why does my profile have no logo?

Because your logo belongs to you, not to us. Claim the profile, upload it, and it appears at the top of the page. It is the first visible difference between a researched profile and a claimed one.

Our details have changed. Do we have to wait for you to notice?

No. Claim the profile and you can change the details yourself, free of charge, as often as you like. If you would rather not have an account, send us the correction and we will make it.

Can I pay to appear higher in a particular category?

You can subscribe to a Capability Profile, which ranks ahead of the other profiles in its group, and we disclose that above. You cannot buy a specific position, a keyword, or a place in a search result.

We would rather show you a short profile that is true than a full one that is not.

If something here is not clear

Write to us. A person reads it, and you can see who that person is.

Questions and corrections: [email protected]
Contact point for users (Article 12 DSA): [email protected], in English or German
Reporting illegal content (Article 16 DSA): Report content

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Last reviewed: August 2026.