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Standards this line is built to
The designations below are cited by the products on this page. A specification is written in these, not in product names, so each one is set out with what it governs. Progress Horizon Trading supplies this line as an authorized distributor across Saudi Arabia.
UL 1424
Cables for power-limited fire alarm circuits in North American installations.
UL 1666
The riser flame test: whether a cable will carry fire vertically between floors in a shaft.
UL Listed
Tested by UL against the applicable safety standard and listed for the use it is sold for.
NEC Article 760
The American wiring rules specific to fire alarm systems, including which cable types may be installed where.
NEC Article 725
The American wiring rules for Class 1, 2 and 3 remote control, signalling and power-limited circuits.
EN 50266-2
Flame spread on bunched cables in a vertical tray: the European series matching the IEC 60332-3 categories.
RoHS Compliant
Made within the restrictions on lead, mercury, cadmium and the other hazardous substances the EU limits in electrical equipment.
BS 6387 C-W-Z
A cable that has passed all three BS 6387 tests: it maintained its circuit through direct flame, through flame with water spray, and through flame with mechanical shock. The grade specified for life-safety circuits.
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BS 8434-2
The enhanced fire survival test for small cables in alarm systems, used where BS 5839-1 calls for enhanced grade.
EN 50200
Fire resistance of the small cables used in emergency circuits: alarm, detection and evacuation wiring, tested for circuit survival rather than flame spread.
BS 5839-1
The British code of practice for fire detection and alarm systems in non-domestic buildings: what decides which cable grade a circuit needs.
IEC 60331-21
Circuit integrity under fire: whether a cable keeps carrying current while it burns. This is the property that separates a fire-resistant cable from a merely flame-retardant one.
IEC 60332-1
Flame propagation on a single vertical cable. It shows the cable will not carry a fire along its own length, which is the minimum expected of any cable in an occupied building.
IEC 60332-3-24
Flame spread on a bundle of cables in a vertical tray, Category C. A cable can pass the single-cable test and still spread fire when hundreds are bunched in a riser, which is what this addresses.
IEC 61034
Smoke density from a burning cable, measured in a sealed chamber. Low smoke is an evacuation requirement: people leave a building by sight.
IEC 60754-1
How much halogen acid gas the cable gives off when it burns. Halogen-free matters where people or sensitive equipment share the space with the cable.
IEC 60754-2
The acidity and conductivity of the gases a burning cable produces: in effect, how corrosive the smoke is to the building and its equipment.
BASEC
Independent British cable approval: verification that a cable is made to the standard its printing claims.
LPCB Certified
Third-party certification by the Loss Prevention Certification Board, whose Red Book listing is widely called for on life-safety products in the Gulf.
RoHS & REACH
Made within both the EU restrictions on hazardous substances in electrical equipment and the wider EU chemical registration and authorisation regime.
ANSI/TIA-568-C.2
The American cabling standard for balanced twisted-pair components, which is where Category 5e, 6 and 6A come from.
IEC 61156-5
Multicore and symmetrical pair cables for data transmission in horizontal structured cabling.
ISO/IEC 11801
The international standard for generic structured cabling in customer premises: the class ratings a network installation is certified to.
EN 50173-1
The European generic cabling standard for information technology systems, the regional counterpart to ISO/IEC 11801.
EN 50288-10-1
Screened cables for use up to 500 MHz, within the European multi-element metallic cable series.
BS EN 50290-2
Common design and construction rules for communication cables: the materials and build quality expected of data, signal and instrumentation cable.
UL Certified
Carrying UL certification against the relevant product safety standard.