ATEX certification
Your strategic partner in ATEX certification
- Expert certification: Navigate the complexities of ATEX compliance with confidence, leveraging our deep expertise and accredited processes to ensure your products meet all necessary safety standards, facilitating seamless market access and enhancing your brand reputation.
- Global recognition: Ensure your products are recognised and accepted in international markets, benefiting from our extensive network and globally recognised certifications that demonstrate your commitment to safety and compliance, opening doors to new opportunities worldwide.
- Comprehensive support: From initial testing and evaluation to final certification and ongoing support, we provide solutions tailored to your specific needs; a smooth, efficient ATEX Certification experience.
Our services
The design requirements for products used in an explosive atmosphere differ significantly from those employed in a non-explosive atmosphere. Furthermore, there are key design differences depending on which type of explosive atmosphere they may be used in.
It is therefore imperative to understand what the design implications are at the start of the product design process.
We can help you at each step of the ATEX compliance process to ensure that the correct assumptions and decisions have been made, test your products, provide you with the appropriate certifications, and perform a quality assessment of your place of manufacturing or supplier.
EU Notified Bodies for ATEX
The global network of Eurofins Electrical & Electronics and Industrial laboratories has four Notified Bodies under the ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU;
- No. 0477 in Italy,
- No.0537 in Finland and
- No. 1258 in Switzerland,
- No. 2776 in the Netherlands
Our laboratories offer ATEX testing and certification services for the following types of products and protection methods:
- Equipment protected by liquid immersion ”k”
- Equipment protected by control of ignition sources ”b”
- Flow restricted enclosures “fr”
- Equipment protected by constructional safety “c”
- Flameproof enclosures “d”
- Dust protection by enclosure “t”
- Intrinsic safety equipment “i”
- Increased safety equipment “e”
- Encapsulated equipment “m”
- Liquid immersed equipment “o”
- Pressurised enclosures “p”
- Powder filling equipment “q”
- Equipment with type of protection "n"
Our scope of accreditation
Our ATEX certification bodies are accredited for a wide range of standards, including, but not limited to:
- IEC / EN 60079-0: Equipment - General requirements
- IEC / EN 60079-1: Equipment protection by flameproof enclosures 'd‘
- IEC / EN 60079-2: Equipment protection by pressurised enclosures 'p‘
- IEC / EN 60079-5: Equipment protection by powder filling 'q‘
- IEC / EN 60079-6: Equipment protection by liquid immersion “o”
- IEC / EN 60079-7: Equipment protection by increased safety 'e‘
- IEC / EN 60079-11: Equipment protection by intrinsic safety 'i‘
- IEC / EN 60079-13: Equipment protection by pressurised room “p”
- IEC / EN 60079-15: Equipment protection by type of protection 'n‘
- IEC / EN 60079-18: Equipment protection by encapsulation “m”
- IEC / EN 60079-25: Intrinsically safe electrical systems
- IEC / EN 60079-26: Equipment with equipment protection level (EPL) Ga
- IEC / EN 60079-28: Protection of equipment and transmission systems using optical radiation
- IEC / EN 60079-30-1: Electrical resistance trace heating
- IEC / EN 60079-31: Equipment dust ignition protection by enclosure 't‘
- IEC / EN 60079-35-1: Cap lights for use in mines susceptible to firedamp; general requirements
- ISO 80079-36: Non-electrical equipment - Basic method and requirements
- IEC TS 60079-46: Equipment assemblies
- ISO 80079-37: Non-electrical type of protection "c", "b", "k“
- ISO 16852: Flame arresters
- EN 14986: Design of fans working in potentially explosive atmospheres
- EN 1755: Fork lift trucks
- EN 1834-1/2/3: Combustion engines
- EN 50303 Group I: Category M1 equipment intended to remain functional in atmospheres endangered by firedamp and/or coal dust
- EN 50050-1/2/3: Electrostatic hand-held spraying equipment
- EN ISO / IEC 80079-34: Explosive atmospheres Part 34; application of quality systems for equipment manufacture
For full details of the scope of services for which we are accredited, please contact your local Eurofins Electrical & Electronics location.
Streamlined ATEX Certification for your products
Eurofins Electrical & Electronics offers thorough testing and certification, ensuring your equipment complies with the ATEX Directive.
Electrical and non-electrical equipment for use in workplaces potentially at risk for explosive atmospheres must ensure a level of safety appropriate to the area of installation.
In Europe this is enforced through the ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU. In addition to CE Marking, equipment used in explosive atmospheres must also gain the Ex Mark which requires in most cases accredited testing, Notified Body approvals.
Products included in the scope of the ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU include:
- Equipment and Protective Systems which may be used in potentially explosive atmospheres
- Safety devices, controlling devices and regulating devices intended for use outside potentially explosive atmospheres but which are required for or contribute to the safe functioning of equipment and protective systems, with respect to the risks of explosion
- Components defined as any item essential to the safe functioning of equipment and protective systems but with no autonomous function
Eurofins Electrical & Electronics are leaders in ATEX, IECEx and Hazloc certification and can provide a global scope of certifications for your products.
What’s the process to obtain ATEX Certification?
There are three steps to being able to gain ATEX certification from an ATEX Notified Body:
- Preparation of a risk analysis, technical documentation, definition of intended use, technical calculations, drawings, product description
- Compliance with one or several type of protections or product standards
- Compliance with the ATEX directive for products used in explosive atmospheres
Our ATEX Certification laboratories will work with you throughout the process, providing you with industry-leading services and support at all times.
Why choose us?
ATEX & IECEx expertise
Extensive global network
Accelerated turnaround times
Dedicated customer focus
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