What is CPR?
What is CPR?
CPR is an acronym for Construction Products Regulation. It is a combination of standards and common technical language that offers a uniform performance and safety assessment system of construction products that are made by or imported to the European Union market.
How do CPR principles apply to cable production?
The CPR principles cover all construction products that are produced for building and civil engineering construction works or are incorporated with any product meant to be used in the same field. This means that cables that are intended to be permanently installed inside buildings must be constructed and tested in accordance with the CPR principles. However, these conditions do not apply to non-permanent cables or any cables intended to be installed outdoor applications, whether they are duct, aerial, or direct buried cables.
To what types of cables do CPR apply?
The CPR regulation applies to the following cables:
What aspects of safety do the CPR regulation include?
The most important part of the regulation, as applied to cables, is safety requirements against burning and fire propagation. However, there are many other aspects in which a product must obtain high standards and test results in order to be accepted by the harmonized European standards on construction products.
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According to the CPR regulation, the most important evaluation aspects are as follows:
What are the safety classes of the CPR regulation?
The CPR construction products regulation includes seven new safety classes from A to F, where A represents a non-flammable product and F a product whose fire reaction properties cannot be determined. According to the new classification, cables usually belong to B, C, D and E class.
There are also additional criteria which determine the requirements of quantity of smoke emitted during combustion, falling droplets created during combustion, acidity of the smoke and electrolytic conductivity. The CE marking on the product shows that the product complies with all the requirements set out in the applicable directives.
Buying CPR Certified Cables
By choosing SAMM Teknoloji products, you can be sure that you get the cables that comply entirely with the requirements set out in the new construction products regulations. You can take a look at our Fiber Optic Cables page to see which cables are CPR certified.