Chubb Fire - reassurance and credibility from BSI
Chubb Fire is one of Europe's largest manufacturers of fire extinguishers and ancillary fire safety equipment. The company is also one of the foremost supporters of BSI's certification services, having been hot off the blocks for both Kitemark® certification and CE marking for its fire extinguishers.
Chubb's extensive range of fire extinguishers were among the first to bear the Kitemark® to EN 3, and the company has recently achieved the Kitemark® for a new product for an innovative extinguisher designed specially for deep fat fryer fires.
We spoke to Chris Fergusson, product development manager, at Chubb, who explained why Chubb is happy doing business with BSI:
"We have more than 600 models and we have tremendous support from BSI with our approvals and testing. BSI's word carries a lot of weight.
Chubb has several Kitemark® licences to EN 3, and we act for four other UK companies and supply extinguishers all over Europe for Williams plc, based on our test reports and approvals from BSI.
For approvals in Sweden and Norway, for instance, we ask BSI to look at test requirements and they confirm that the technical content is in line with what we've had done. They won't accept our word for it, but they will accept BSI's.
BSI's word carries influence throughout Europe - we've had product approvals in Holland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Finland off the back of BSI test reports and approvals. We're currently working within Denmark, Estonia and Latvia on the same basis.
We're currently working with BSI to achieve CE marking for the Marine Equipment Directive and that will carry on throughout this year, and next year we're going to be looking at Pressure Equipment.
The test reports Chubb received for EN 3 Kitemark® still carry a lot of weight. BSI's influence is ever-expanding and it's spreading."
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