Electrical Conformity

Our partnership with TUV-Rheinland (and NRTL) enables us to evaluate and label products to the applicable safety standards.

All right – pop quiz! “What is conformity?” No, not in the social or political sense – in the electrical sense! Almost everyone has seen a “UL” (Underwriter Laboratories) label on a section of electrical gear, a piece of manufacturing equipment, or maybe even a toaster! Intuitively, most of us know that label is a reassurance that the product operates safely. But how does that happen? What is even more interesting and many people don’t know – is that UL is not the only entity authorized to label devices like those mentioned above. They are simply the most commonly-known. UL is an NRTL – a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory – which has been authorized to test products to specific, applicable standards, and label them as conforming. See what we did there? Our partnership with TUV-Rheinland (and NRTL) enables us to evaluate and label products to the applicable safety standards. So if you’ve changed a rated (conforming) cabinet, or if your inspector won’t green tag your SES because it is not “labeled”, or if you’ve bought a piece of manufacturing equipment from another country and want to know if it meets applicable safety standards? Yes, we do that…