New ACI warning on CCA data cables
The Approved Cables Initiative (ACI) has issued a strong warning about the growing practice of misselling data cable (Cat/Cat 6) products with Copper Clad Aluminium (CCA) which are non-compliant with published national and international standards. Issuing the warning, the ACI has also alerted the market place to some inaccurate reporting on the BBC website where a piece in February reported that `traditional cable can be replaced with aluminium coated in copper’.
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The Approved Cable Initiative
The Approved Cables Initiative has been established to address the issue of unsafe, non-approved and counterfeit cable entering the UK marketplace. The first initiative of its kind in the electrical industry the ACI is direct in its approach to investigate and publicise the findings of cables found to be faulty, counterfeit or non-compliant with British, European or International Standards.
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