Effective Nov. 1, clients who submit end products in
any of three key industry segments to UL for new-product evaluations
for the United States will also receive the C-UL Mark for Canada
at no extra cost. What’s more, if the product already has
CSA certification, UL will provide both the UL and C-UL marks
at half the cost of obtaining the UL Mark alone.
“If
UL fails to meet the mutually agreed upon promise date” -
says Loring W. Knoblauch, UL’s president and CEO - “clients
will receive their U.S. and Canadian certifications absolutely
free.”
The
three industry segments include:
•Industrial
control equipment
-----------------motor controllers
-----------------auxiliary devices
-----------------high voltage accessories
-----------------power conversion
equipment
-----------------programmable controllers
-----------------protective relays
-----------------switches and terminal
blocks
•Industrial control panels
•Laboratory, test and measurement equipment.
All components
included
The fast-track program also extends to all components - regardless
of their end-product use - that have already received CSA certification
for the United States and Canada.
“When
a manufacturer submits a product that contains CSA-certified components
to UL for certification in the United States or Canada - Knoblauch
says - we will offer the component supplier the option of having
UL certify the component under the half-price ‘fast-track’
program.”
If the supplier agrees,
UL will provisionally accept the CSA-certified component, then
test it and the end product at the same time. If the component
is certified within 120 days, then UL’s acceptance of the
CSA-certified component stands. If UL is unable to satisfactorily
certify the component, UL will offer the customer 90 days to source
another, already UL-certified component. If a suitable alternative
UL-certified component cannot be found, UL will withdraw its acceptance
of both the CSA-certified component and the end product.
“UL’s ‘fast-track’ component
offer lets customers reduce their time-to-market while providing
the reassurance UL needs that the level of safety for those components
and products remains high,” says Knoblauch. “The
fast-track program gives our customers what they’ve been
asking for - fast, efficient, higher-value product certifications.”
For more information
about UL’s new “fast-track” certification program,
visit UL on the Web at
www.ul.com/fasttrack/
