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acronym for Deutsches Institute fiir Normung. a national consensus standards-setting body in Germany.

DIN (Wikipedia)

Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN; in English, the German Institute for Standardisation) is a German non-profit organization and acting as national organization for standardization. DIN is the German ISO member body. DIN is headquartered in Berlin. There are around thirty thousand DIN Standards, covering nearly every field of technology.

Deutsches Institut für Normung
Typesnonprofit organization
Legal statusregistered association
HeadquartersBerlin
CountryGermany
Membership3,518 (2022)
DIN headquarters is a modern 7-story office building with their logo on the front
Head office of the German Institute for Standardization in Berlin-Tiergarten
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