Manufacturing to Standard in Europe

摘要

Like the Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA) in the United States, Europe has a trade association. The 33-year-old Committee of Industrial Furnace and Heating Equipment Associations (CECOF), headquartered in Frankfurt, consists of European associations that are themselves made up of manufacturers. In the mid-1990s, after a multi-year effort, the group released the final draft of what became EN746 Part 2, which provides standards for burners and fuel-handling equipment for manufacturers. Before EN746, there had been no European standard on ovens, furnaces and other combustion and fuel-handling equipment. In Europe, EN746 is called a C standard, which means it contains requirements for a particular group of products.