Certifications and other requirements
Post 12 of 16
Replying to [Pippo]:
ISO certificates are not compulsory, but they will help you to show your abilities to clients to meet business requirements. For trading company, ISO 9001 is enough, could be latter, no need at the start up. But for manufacturers, home decor items for example, it is better for them to show their production in conformity with requirements of some standards as ISO 9001, SA 8000 or the materials are tested free of some specific chemicals...
If you need support and more information from Vietnam, I am very pleased to exchange with you.
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ISO certificates are not compulsory, but they will help you to show your abilities to clients to meet business requirements. For trading company, ISO 9001 is enough, could be latter, no need at the start up. But for manufacturers, home decor items for example, it is better for them to show their production in conformity with requirements of some standards as ISO 9001, SA 8000 or the materials are tested free of some specific chemicals...
If you need support and more information from Vietnam, I am very pleased to exchange with you.
09 Jan 2008 18:08
Post 13 of 16
Replying to [Pippo]:
as an additianl bit of info for the USA.
Not sure if you have this worked out yet but UL and CE stamps are not just something a manufaturer can put on the products.... It isnt that easy. The products have to be submitted for testing, which costs a LOT of money to do (especially for UL certification).
There ARE some fake suppliers who will give you what they say is a UL certified product but it actually is NOT , it is just a fake label. Not quite so hard to get a CE certification (more labs will do the testing and it isn;t as expensive).
If you are based in Italy I would recommend you start with the Eu first and then exapnd into the US market. Get the CE stuff bedded down first, the UL certs are painful to double check and will take a lot of time.
hope that helps a bit.
as an additianl bit of info for the USA.
Not sure if you have this worked out yet but UL and CE stamps are not just something a manufaturer can put on the products.... It isnt that easy. The products have to be submitted for testing, which costs a LOT of money to do (especially for UL certification).
There ARE some fake suppliers who will give you what they say is a UL certified product but it actually is NOT , it is just a fake label. Not quite so hard to get a CE certification (more labs will do the testing and it isn;t as expensive).
If you are based in Italy I would recommend you start with the Eu first and then exapnd into the US market. Get the CE stuff bedded down first, the UL certs are painful to double check and will take a lot of time.
hope that helps a bit.
10 Jan 2008 14:44
Post 14 of 16
Replying to [Pippo]:
Thankx a lot vietaudit and foom.
About Ce and UL I have it stamped on the lamp holder of my lamps, which is sourced from a 3rd part, hope that is enought. another solution I think could be let the customer add the electric part buying the lamp holder on the local market and buy from me the structure. Is it possible?
Thankx again
(ps..i m not based in italy)
Thankx a lot vietaudit and foom.
About Ce and UL I have it stamped on the lamp holder of my lamps, which is sourced from a 3rd part, hope that is enought. another solution I think could be let the customer add the electric part buying the lamp holder on the local market and buy from me the structure. Is it possible?
Thankx again
(ps..i m not based in italy)
11 Jan 2008 00:49
Post 15 of 16
Replying to [Pippo]:
Pippo,
For the stamps on the lamps: The 3rd party should be able to get the copy from the manufacturer of the certification... That is standard practice. unless I am horribl;y mistaken you should be able to confirm the cert number with UL as well.... Can't remember the actual way you do that unfortunately. I'll have to check how thats done again.
Pippo,
For the stamps on the lamps: The 3rd party should be able to get the copy from the manufacturer of the certification... That is standard practice. unless I am horribl;y mistaken you should be able to confirm the cert number with UL as well.... Can't remember the actual way you do that unfortunately. I'll have to check how thats done again.
11 Jan 2008 12:28
Post 16 of 16
Replying to [Pippo]:
http://database.ul.com/cgi-bin/XYV/template/LISEXT/1FRAME/index.htm
Knew I could find it. Thats the link to check the UL number on...
http://database.ul.com/cgi-bin/XYV/template/LISEXT/1FRAME/index.htm
Knew I could find it. Thats the link to check the UL number on...
11 Jan 2008 12:36