European Fire Testing

New European-Wide fire resistance testing standards are now published.

Testing in one EU country will be recognized in all EU countries!

What a great opportunity to access the World's second largest market, 

at one hit!

John Kitchener (Consultancy) Ltd  has been helping manufacturers of fire-resisting materials and products to obtain certification under British Standards for some 14 years now, with many large companies as customers. This service can now be expanded to gain access to all EU countries, with only one test programme!

We offer product design advice, test programme planning and supervision as well as test specimen construction. (You should have the specimen build by fire-testing experts as well as designed by fire-testing experts!)

In short, the whole package can be managed by experienced professionals, in the country of testing. No need to ship busy managers across the world to discuss complicated test procedures with Laboratory Managers, no need to ship construction personnel around the world. Test specimen design tailored to be successful in the test equipment of the appropriate laboratory.

Visit our home web-site, www.john-kitchener-consultancy.co.uk to see what we can do, (and to see a few fires where the protection was sadly lacking!)

European tests already in place:

EN 1363 Parts 1-3, General test procedures

EN 1364 Parts 1-3, Test methods for non-loaded walls, ceilings and curtain walling

EN 1365 Parts 1-4, Test methods for loaded wall, floors, beams and columns

EN 1366 Parts 1-4, Test methods for service installations, ie Ducts, Dampers, Penetration Seals and Linear Gap Seals

EN 1634 Part 1, Test methods for doors and shutters.

And there are more on the way, with a whole range of methods to determine the contribution of products to structural members and so on!

If your company's products could expand into Europe, contact us at: kitchltd@aol.com

Get in touch with me for the latest news concerning testing your type of product, if I don't know I know a man who does...!