CSA International has been recognized by the U.S. federal government as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory. This means that your products can be tested and certified according to Canadian and U.S. standards, while ensuring that your certification is recognized by federal, state, provincial and local governments. With effective product safety certification from CSA, access to the world's toughest and most expansive market, North America, is a breeze. CSA can help your products penetrate the U.S. and Canadian markets quickly and efficiently, and CSA International will save manufacturers time and money by eliminating duplication in the certification application process. All it takes is one application, one set of samples, and one fee for a manufacturer to receive a safety mark that is recognized at the federal, state, provincial, and local levels from New York to Los Angeles.CSA
International will work with manufacturers to provide a high quality, safe and reliable certification program. CSA people have earned the trust of people throughout North America and around the world for their honesty, integrity and skill.
CSA International has four laboratories in Canada. From 1992 to 1994, they were all formally accredited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). According to OSHA's rules, after obtaining this accreditation, it can be used as a nationally recognized testing laboratory to test and certify a series of products in accordance with more than 360 U.S. ANSI/UL standards; at the same time, CSA is also a U.S. NRTL (Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory), and there is a mutual recognition agreement with UL to introduce the c-CSA-us mark, which is a symbol of CSA International's testing and certification. International testing and certification of products, was determined to be fully compliant with the standard provisions of the certified products can enter the U.S. market, can be sold to the U.S. and Canada's two markets
Obtaining the North American certification to save time and money, only to complete an application, provide a set of samples, pay a fee. With CSA, one step can help you enter the two markets, CSA this convenient testing and certification services, eliminating the need to obtain different certifications of the two countries need to repeat the test and evaluation. This undoubtedly reduces the cost of product certification, follow-up inspections and re-testing, while also saving valuable time and eliminating the need for manufacturers to deal with a variety of different certification bodies, thus achieving twice the result with half the effort.
"CSA" Marking is applied to the Canadian Standards Association for registration, which recognizes the safety and authorization of products before they can be marked with the "CSA" Marking logo.
The CSA is a not-for-profit, member-sponsored organization that develops standards in the areas of health care technology, oil and gas piping systems, occupational safety, electrical products and solar energy. CSA also has subsidiaries and representatives around the world.
CSA standards are voluntary. Municipal, provincial, and federal governments often use or refer to CSA standards in their administration in lieu of developing their own standards. In such cases, the CSA standards become the reference point for government specifications. Governments or other organizations and associations may require compliance with a standard or specify that a particular product must be certified as conforming to a standard. This is based on whether each organization wishes to require the use of CSA standards and validation practices within its jurisdiction.
The CSA Marking is one of the most recognizable product safety marks in the world, and even though it is not mandatory, manufacturers in many regions use it as an important basis for recommending the safety of their products to their customers, and many purchasers even specify that they want to buy products with the CSA Marking attached. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of manufacturers that have been designated by Canadian importers or purchasers as needing to obtain the CSA logo.
cTUVus certification may be a lot of people have not encountered, but it is not difficult to see from the logo, this is the TUV Rheinland for North America (U.S. and Canada) certification. TUV Rheinland organizations believe that most of the factories doing business in the export sector are not unfamiliar with, because many foreign customers have to specify the certification program! For example, CE, GS, CB, PSE, etc. are applied for in Rheinland, so the Rheinland organization has a wide range of popularity and influence!
Then c tuv us in the end how seniority? In fact, this is the same as UL/ETL/CSA and other domestic often do the North American safety certification, cTUVus is also one of the North American accredited certification, TUV Rheinland North America is also authorized by OSHA NRTL labs, but also made the Canadian Bureau of Standards SCC accreditation, so the product obtained C-TUV-US, sold to the U.S. and Canada is no problem at present, the domestic At present, more and more domestic customers are beginning to contact, understand and apply for this certification. The product standard with the application of UL, ETL, CSA and other certifications, the United States using UL standards, Canada using CSA standards. I believe we are more interested in: why apply for C TUV US certification? What are the advantages over other certifications?1, testing costs product testing costs, if you have done the Rheinland CB / GS or North American certification test report, you can apply through the transfer of certification + deviation test, the cost of a better deal.
2, factory inspection costs 5. According to NRTL's minimum requirements for factory inspection can be reduced to 2 times a year, in addition, if there is a GS certification or other certified factory inspection, then the factory inspection aspect can also be combined together to reduce the factory preparation time. 3, the certification cycle general electronic and electrical products from the application to get the certificate 4 ~ 6 weeks to complete, no doubt faster!So if your company is already a Rheinland customer, then applying for C-TUV-US certification can undoubtedly save more money, reduce? The effort spent on certification.
6. cTUVus follow-up certificate fee, factory inspection fee to how much? Certificate fee: $2500/copy Factory inspection fee: $3100/times + differential road fee (generally 2 times per year) Labeling fee: None Registration fee: None 7. What information is needed to apply for C-TUV-US? 1, Application form; 2, Circuit schematic, product exploded diagram or other technical information; 3, Nameplate; 4, English manual; 5, BOM table, list of critical parts (CDF) 6, OEM and trademark declaration