IECEx Certification

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Testing, certification, and product inspection services under the IECEx Certification Scheme.

Eurofins E&E assesses the compliance of your products and provides the reports, and certificates, necessary to mark your EX, CE Mark and ATEX products.

Electrical and non-electrical equipment designated for use in workplaces which are potentially at risk for explosive atmospheres must ensure a level of safety appropriate to the area of installation. The IECEx Scheme is the CB Scheme for electrical equipment used in explosive atmospheres and provides an internationally accepted means of proving compliance with IEC standards for equipment destined for use in explosive atmospheres.

Eurofins E&E is a leading provider of IECEx certification globally. We provide expert assessment of the compliance of your products to help you ensure their suitability and explosion protection according to the requirements needed for obtaining the Distinctive Community Mark (Ex in hexagon) and approval for other international markets.

Eurofins E&E is one of very few Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTLs) that can provide seamless testing, certification and product inspection services under the IECEx Certified Equipment Scheme as well as the ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU.

Why Eurofins E&E North America?

Eurofins E&E can provide seamless testing, certification and product inspection services under the ATEX Directive & IECEx scheme, via an innovative Harmonized International Ex Testing Program. The program harmonizes test processes, engineering skill sets, and administration to ensure a consistent approach in securing all recognized approvals for potentially explosive atmosphere.

In addition to ATEX and IECEx certifications, we also provide hazardous location certification for the U.S. and Canada. Eurofins E&E can conduct an investigation in accordance with the applicable EN standards simultaneously with a US and Canadian certification project.

Our single-source testing and certification capabilities, local expertise in major world markets, and global coverage can help you cut significant time off the certification process, rendering approvals in weeks instead of months.

Our IECEx Testing & Certification Capabilities

Eurofins E&E performs local IECEx testing in North America (a rare capability among U.S.-based labs), cutting significant time off the certification process and rendering approvals in weeks instead of months.

Eurofins E&E offers testing & certification services to the following IECEx standards:

IEC 60079-0 Part 0: Equipment General requirements
IEC 60079-1 Part 1: Equipment protection by flameproof enclosures ‘d’
IEC 60079-2 Part 2: Equipment protection by pressurized enclosures ‘p’
IEC 60079-7 Part 7: Equipment protection by increased safety ‘e’
IEC 60079-11 Part 11: Equipment protection by intrinsic safety ‘i’
IEC 60079-15 Part 15: Construction, test and marking of type of protection “n” electrical apparatus
IEC 60079-18 Part 18: Construction, test and marking of type of protection encapsulation ‘m’ electrical apparatus
IEC 60079-26 Part 26: Equipment with equipment protection level (EPL) Ga
IEC 60079-31 Part 31: Equipment dust ignition protection by enclosure “t”
IEC 61241-0 Part 0: General requirements
IEC 61241-1 Part 1: Protection by enclosures ‘tD’
IEC 61241- 4 Part 4: Type of protection ‘pD’
IEC 61241-11 Part 11: Protection by intrinsic safety ‘iD’
IEC 61241-18 Part 18: Protection by encapsulation ‘mD’

Certification, International Approvals & Notified Body Services

As part of the Eurofins E&E network, our explosion protection experts support customers worldwide. We have Certification Bodies in Italy and Switzerland who have successfully completed the IECEx assessment process to operate as IECEx Certification Bodies (ExCBs).

IEC 60079 – Part 0: Equipment General requirements
IEC 60079 – Part 1: Equipment protection by flameproof enclosures “d”
IEC 60079 – Part 2: Equipment protection by pressurized enclosure “p”
IEC 60079 – Part 7: Equipment protection by increased safety “e”
IEC 60079 – Part 11: Equipment protection by intrinsic safety “i”
IEC 60079 – Part 15: Equipment protection by type of protection “n”
IEC 60079 – Part 18: Equipment protection by encapsulation “m”
IEC 60079 – Part 31: Equipment dust ignition protection by enclosure “t”