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    With ever more competition in the marketplace, tendering becomes ever more agressive.  This drives behaviour of increased efficiency, but can also promote extreme price pressure on building products.  This is very applicable to cabling products, whose major component is ...

     

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    Wholesalers and distributors sell a vast array of cabling products to meet the varied needs of their customers.With no cable test facilities at their disposal it is often based on trust that the products they buy do perform to the standards required. However there is evidence that up to 20 ...

     

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    We live in a world of constant change, and regulation, legislation and statute is regularly updated to reflect this.  The complexities of regulation can be baffling, so we, the ACI, aim to demystify those bits of legislation that fall into our area of expertise.Keeping abreast of ...

     

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    Cables are made to British, European or International standards, to ensure the purchaser and user has confidence that a product is safe to use and will operate as expected.However, there is strong evidence that increasingly the guidelines and standards are not being followed by some manufa ...

     

Electrical supply industry urged to stay vigilant

August 10 2010

The Approved Cables Initiative (ACI) is warning contractors and suppliers to remain watchful for faulty cables following the cancellation of Atlas Kablo’s BASEC product certification licence (26th July 2010).

Calling time on faulty cables

July 10 2010

When cable distributor, UK Cables Limited, queried a Turkish consignment of PVC flexible cable, inte

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Multi-million metres of defective cable exposed

June 22 2010

An ACI investigation leads to the recall from the UK of more than 11 million metres of cable.

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BASEC issues statement on Atlas Kablo

June 21 2010

BASEC has issued a statement regarding Altas Kablo and non-compliant H05VV-F Flexible Cables.

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Whistle Blower. Report non-compliant traders or installations now.