Gas Appliances Testing Solutions

Comprehensive compliance solutions for gas appliances

Gas appliance manufacturers must maintain quality while reducing cost and time to market. Standards and regulations evolve quickly, and noncompliance can result in delays, product recalls and potential safety risks.

Meeting consumers’ demands for appliance features, such as integrated electric and gas, can complicate compliance challenges, requiring multiple vendors’ services.

UL Solutions can help. We offer a wide array of advisory, testing and certification services for combustion appliances and components such as:

UL Solutions combustion testing, evaluation and certification solutions for gas appliances

Our safety science leadership, state-of-the-art laboratories and expertise provide you with a complete solution for commercial and consumer gas appliances that require certification to enter key markets around the world.

You can select individual services to meet your business strategy and target markets, or bundle them to realize potential cost and time savings by reducing redundant testing. If applicable, we can conduct testing at your facility. We can test gas appliance components such as pipes and fittings, valves, burners, manifolds, fans, flue terminals and switches separately or as part of the appliance.

Choosing UL Solutions for all your gas appliance service needs provides you with all the advantages of partnering with a trustworthy single vendor as well as access to a complete bundle of solutions, including:

Gas Appliances Regulation (GAR)

The GAR is full harmonization legislation that clarifies the requirements each gas appliance and fitting has to fulfill and introduces harmonized content for the communication of gas supply conditions in EU countries, enabling the design and construction of safer and correctly performing products.

The Regulation covers:

• Appliances burning gaseous fuel and fittings
• New or secondhand appliances imported from a country outside of the EU
• All forms of supply, including distance sales

As a manufacturer or importer, you have to show and declare compliance with the GAR through an EC type-examination certificate and a demonstrably valid product(ion) surveillance contract as part of the technical construction file.

How your brand can benefit from working with UL Solutions

Our global presence, with laboratories offering services for gas appliances in North America, Canada, Europe and China, allows us to provide our customers with services in their own time zone and language.

UL Solutions holds several credentials such as:

• UL International Italia S.r.l. is a Notified Body for the GAR and Boiler Efficiency Directive (BED) to support the CE marking (registered under Body no. 2052).
• UL International (UK) LTD U.K. is an Approved Body for GAR to support the UKCA marking (registered under Body no. 0843).
• Underwriters Laboratories Inc. is an OSHA Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL).
• Four National Certification Bodies (NCBs) and numerous CB Test Laboratories (CBTL) within the IECEE CB Scheme.

Our trusted reputation and skilled engineers can provide you, regulatory authorities and your stakeholders with confidence that your appliance meets relevant regulations and standards.

• The UL Mark is one of the most recognized marks in the world and appears on tens of billions of products.
• Our experts sit on essential industry technical committees, and we’ve helped create more than 1,600 standards, defining safety, security and quality in the market.
• 66% of U.S. retailers prefer the UL Mark over other testing, inspection and certification (TIC) marks, according to an Interbrand study.

Additionally, UL Solutions’ Global Market Access program provides a complete compliance solution spanning the entire process and multiple regulations.

Global Market Access provides streamlined service paths through UL Solutions’ participation in global certification schemes. This often means you can gain certifications or approvals for many countries without needing to retest or work with multiple organizations. Our goal is to help you get your safer, compliant products to market as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

Our offerings include:

UL Solutions can support you with market access services for almost any country in the world.

With 80 years of experience in testing and certifying gas appliances and as a global safety science leader, UL Solutions applies deep industry technical expertise, vast regulatory knowledge, strong connection with regulators and the resources of a worldwide network of laboratories and dedicated, local service. We can help you gain global market acceptance faster, improve safety, and manage risk.

Relevant standards

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