The European Association for anchor fixings, drill bits for concrete and masonry and powder actuated fixings
With Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1574 of 28 October 2020 the European Commission has cited the following EADs for fasteners in the Official Journal of the EU:
CFE warmly welcomes the company Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG (http://www.wuerth.de/) as new member company. The Würth goup represents leading European manufactuers of metal anchors, bonded anchors, concrete screws and plastic anchors.
The Fastener+Fixings Magazine has now published our article on standardization of anchors vs. EADs, see https://issuu.com/fastenerfixingmagazines/docs/ffm_120_november_2019/98
Today, a CFE delegation met Sue Arundale, Director of Technical and Environmental Affairs at the European Construction Industry Federation FIEC.
In view of the upcoming CPR revision, both associations support to keep the ETA route to CE marking for innovative products, but wish improvements of the processes for EAD development.
Today, Thomas Holland-Letz as CFE representative joined the meeting of the anchor group of CISMA, the French association of construction products and equipment, for a friutful exchange of views on the upcoming CPR revision, on European Assessment Documents (EADs) for anchors and on design methodes for anchor fixings.
The ETA route to CE marking offers many construction product manufacturers a valuable alternative to CEN standardisation when no harmonised standard is available. This concerns mostly unique, innovative and complex products and systems placed on the market by SMEs. Over the past years, the ETA route to CE marking has been successful in stimulating the internal market for construction products, reducing technical barriers to trade, relieving administrative burdens and providing a common technical language to construction professionals across Europe. More than 4200 ETAs of more than 1300 different manufacturers are currently valid. A repeal of the ETA route would definitely result in increased costs which might lead to serious sales drops for concerned manufacturers, a significant
number of them being SMEs.
CFE, together with other European associations like the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC), Construction Products Europe (CPE), Small Business Standards (SBS), Construction SMEs Europe (EBS), Engineered Construction Systems (ECS) and European Organisation for Technical Assessment (EOTA), has signed an open letter to the SCC, the European Commission and members of the European Parliament which expresses the importance of the EOTA route in the context of the upcoming CPR revision.
The member lists in the following categories are updated:
The following pages have been updated:
Construction Fixings Europe proudly welcomes the company KMT Kunststoff- & Metallteile AG as new member company. KMT is manufacturer of plastic anchors.
In March 2017, CFE together with the European Engineered Construction Systems Association (ECS) has published a common Position Paper. This paper addresses the current situation regarding the issue of ETAs based on ETAGs and EADs. It aims to eliminate uncertainties and formal obstacles for the manufacturers in order to give them the opportunity to use ETAs as a way to CE marking for innovative products, as intended by the CPR.
Click here for download: CFE_ECS_Strengthening_the_ETA_route
The separate issues refer to
The main issues are:
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