Large Domestic Appliances

Household Appliances

DEKRA has been providing localised testing and certification services for the booming Chinese household appliances market.

Washing machine

From the moment we wake up in the morning, we use a variety of electronic products to make our lives easier and more creative. While enjoying new products, new experiences and high technology, have you paid attention to their safety and quality? Undoubtedly, electrical products may fail and have a serious safety risk. Have their designs met safety standards, such as electrical insulation, materials, structures, electric leakage, short circuit, overload, overheating? Product safety certification can solve these problems, and provide confidence to your customers! Putting your products on the market without testing, considering the potential damage to your property, your customers and your brand reputation, this is obviously not advisable.

Since 1996, DEKRA has been providing localised testing and certification services for the booming Chinese household appliances market, which is the world's biggest export products. By virtue of our comprehensive household appliances testing service portfolios, independent test laboratories and technical experts, we can provide in-depth technical training and guidance, in order to provide customers with professional advice during your product R&D.

In addition, the DEKRA "one-stop" Export Support Services (ESS) provide global market access to countries and regions in worldwide, which undoubtedly is extremely important for household appliance manufacturers, since they are sold around the world.

Large Household Appliances

  1. REFRIGERATORS AND FOOD FREEZERS
    Household refrigerator, commercial freezer, ice machine, semiconductor refrigerator, absorption-type refrigerator, car refrigerator, ice cream maker, cake cabinets, salad cabinets, display cabinets.
  2. APPLIANCES FOR CLIMATE CONTROL
    Air conditioner: split air conditioner, window air conditioner, mobile air conditioner
  3. PUMPS
    High pressure washer, deep-well pump, garden pump…
  4. HEAT PUMPS
    Heat pump(water) for swimming pool, Motor Compressor…
  5. LAUNDRY TREATMENT APPLIANCES
    Washing machine, washing/dryer machines, tumble Dryers, twin tub washing machines, spin extractors…
  6. DISH WASHERS
  7. BATHING APPLIANCES

Service Portfolios:

  • Electrical Safety Testing
  • EMC
  • Performance Testing
    • Energy Efficiency (链接至ErP，Energy Star)
    • Usability Testing (链接至USE)
    • Reliability Testing
  • Retailer Services （链接）
  • RoHS
  • REACH
  • PaHs
  • Food contacted materials
  • Export Support Services (ESS) （链接）

Package Certification Program：

  1. GS/CE/EMC/EMF/PaHs/ErP/RoHS
    Successful opening of the German market + EU market access
  2. DEKRA-Seal/CE/EMC/EMF/ErP/RoHS
    The golden key for the European market access
  3. CB/CE/EMC/EMF/RoHS
    International mutual recognition scheme, necessary certificate for global market access, e.g. Eastern Europe, Russia, Australia, the Middle East, Brazil and Southeast Asia…
  4. KEMA-KEUR/CE/EMC/EMF/ErP/RoHS
    Entry into the European high-end market
  5. MET/CB/CE/EMC/EMF/RoHS
    One testing, two certificates for North America market and European market access

Hot Services

  • SAA for Australia market
  • INMETRO for Brazil market
  • DEKRA Seal certification for usability
  • Energy Efficiency Test for international markets

There is an increasingly high entry threshold for the EU market of vacuum cleaner Apart from the basic requirements of electrical safety and electromagnetic compatibility, energy efficiency and lifetime have also become entry conditions since the middle of 2014. With our years of development in this area, DEKRA conduct testing items, such as annual power consumption calculation, energy efficiency grading, and life cycle testing, for carpet/floor cleaning, the results of which are accurate and stable, unanimously approved by the buyers. That's why we are the leadership in the industry.

NOM for Mexico market
DEKRA is one of the testing organisation recognised by ANCE to be able to perform testing and issue test reports in China, greatly saving the trouble for customers to send samples to Mexico. Our localised services save costs for our customers in terms of human resources, certification fee and quicker lead time, which bring high efficiency for your Mexico market access.

Major Test Items

1. Documentation Review

Key Aim: To verify manual, labeling, certificate of components and parts and other documents of which are or not consistent with the declared product and standard requirement.

Checking points:

  • Check the warnings in the manual and label
  • Check the certificates validity of components and parts

2. Construction Check

Key Aim: Check the potential mechanical hazards and electric hazard

Checking Points:

  • Clause 20: Stability and mechanical hazards
  • Clause 22: Construction
  • Clause 29: Clearances, creepage distances and solid insulation

3. Electrical Test

Key Aim: Check the potential electrical hazards and the resistance to heat and fire

Checking Points:

  • Clause 10: Power input and current
  • Clause 11: Heating
  • Clause 13: Leakage current and electric strength at operating temperature
  • Clause 17: Overload protection of transformers and associated circuits
  • Clause 19: Abnormal operation
  • Clause 30: Resistance to heat and fire

Benefits at a Glance

  1. Localised Certification
    Localised certification is one of the major strengths of DEKRA Household Appliance Certification service, of which save lead-time and costs for the customer to the maximum degree, and significantly enhance the practicality and efficiency of communication between customers and DEKRA.
  2. Extensive Buyer Recognition
    DEKRA is German largest third-party independent testing organization. The century-old KEMA-KEUR mark and DEKRA seal mark is well-known and well accepted by brand owners and large retailers in Europe and worldwide.
  3. Experienced Engineer Team
    Since 1996, DEKRA has been starting local laboratory testing for Household Appliances in China. We have dedicated project engineer team per product category. The team leader of that product category is with 10years experience in testing and project management. The members of project engineer team are at an average of 5+ year experience. We provide you with one-to-one project manager for your product design guidance, testing and product modification when it fail the test. All these are to assist you solve problems and get your products certified in an efficiency way.
  4. ONE-STOP Service
    No matter your products are required to have electrical safety (GS/CB/CE) test, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) test, chemical (RoHs) test, energy efficiency (ErP) test, usability test or multinational certification, DEKRA can provide ONE-STOP test to meet all the requirements and deliver the certificates meet your market access. We provide On-stop Certification Services for a variety of countries.

Standards:

  • IEC/EN 60335-1；IEC/EN 60335-2-X

There are general standards (IEC/EN 60335-1) and specific standards (IEC/EN 60335-2-X) for Household Appliances. General standards are about general principles, of which all household appliances must meet those general requirements; Specific standards are specific provisions, of which different types of household appliances must respectively meet the requirements of specific provisions.

For example, an electric kettle is required to meet both IEC/EN60335-1 (general requirements) and IEC/EN60335-2-15 (specific requirements); if it fails to meet the requirements of either standard, it will not be certified.

Directives

  • Low Voltage Directive（LVD）2006/95/EC
  • EMC Directive 2004/108/EC
  • ErP and energy labeling 2009/125/EC
  • Environmental Protection Directives:
    • RoHS 2011/65/EU
    • REACH, 10/2011/EC
    • WEEE, 2012/19/EU
  • R&TTE Directive, 1999/5/EC
  • Packaging Directive 94/62/EC
  • Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC

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