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Standards

Each standard this site cites: what it governs, the certificates and test reports we hold under it, and the product parameters measured by it. Only standards the site cites are listed; this page is not a register of any market's rules.

Product standards

EN 13162:2012+A1:2015

Thermal insulation products for buildings. Factory made mineral wool (MW) products. Specification

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Specifies requirements for factory made mineral wool products, with or without facings or coatings, for the thermal insulation of buildings. A harmonised standard under Regulation (EU) No 305/2011.
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Parameters measured by it
No product parameter on this site is measured by it.

GB/T 25975-2018

Rock wool products for external thermal insulation of building walls

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Chinese product standard for rock wool used in external wall insulation systems.
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No certificate or report rests on this standard.
Parameters measured by it
  • Taishi® External Wall Insulation Board: Tensile Strength, Compressive Resistance (10%), Thermal Conductivity, Hydrophobic Rate, Acidity Coefficient, Moisture Absorption by Mass, Short-term Water Absorption (24h), Long-term Water Absorption (28d), Dimensional Stability, Thickness Deviation, Right Angle Deviation, and Planeness
  • Taishi® Vertical Wall Insulation Strip: Compressive Resistance (10%), Tensile Strength, Thermal Conductivity, Hydrophobic Rate, Acidity Coefficient, Moisture Absorption by Mass, Short-term Water Absorption (24h), Long-term Water Absorption (28d), Dimensional Stability, Thickness Deviation, Right Angle Deviation, and Planeness
  • Taishi® Sandwich Panel Core Stone Wool: Planeness

GB/T 19686-2015

Rock wool thermal insulation products for building applications

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Chinese product standard for rock wool insulation used in buildings, the basis of the GB type tests on file.
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Parameters measured by it
  • Taishi® Roof Insulation Board: Compressive Resistance (10%), Thermal Conductivity, Point Load, Combustion Class, Hydrophobic Rate, Acidity Coefficient, Moisture Absorption by Mass, Short-term Water Absorption (24h), Long-term Water Absorption (28d), and Right Angle Deviation
  • Taishi® Curtain Wall Insulation Board: Fiber Diameter, Moisture Absorption by Mass, Hydrophobic Rate, Thermal Conductivity, and Combustion Class
  • Taishi® Sandwich Panel Core Stone Wool: Compressive Resistance (10%), Tensile Strength, Thermal Conductivity, Combustion Class, Hydrophobic Rate, Acidity Coefficient, Moisture Absorption by Mass, Short-term Water Absorption (24h), and Thickness Deviation

GB/T 11835-2016

Rock wool, slag wool and its products for thermal insulation

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Chinese product standard for rock wool and slag wool insulation in general thermal use.
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No certificate or report rests on this standard.
Parameters measured by it

KS L 9102

Artificial mineral fiber thermal insulation materials

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Korean standard for mineral wool and glass wool insulation in building, industrial and composite panel use.
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Parameters measured by it
No product parameter on this site is measured by it.

Classification standards

EN 13501-1:2018

Fire classification of construction products and building elements. Part 1: Classification using data from reaction to fire tests

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Sets the reaction-to-fire classes of construction products from the results of the EN reaction-to-fire tests.
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Parameters measured by it
No product parameter on this site is measured by it.

GB 8624-2012

Classification for burning behavior of building materials and products

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Chinese reaction-to-fire classification. Its classes and the EN 13501-1 classes come from separate test and document chains and do not replace each other.
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No certificate or report rests on this standard.

GB 6566-2010

Limits of radionuclides in building materials

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Limits for the internal and external exposure indices of building materials.
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No certificate or report rests on this standard.
Parameters measured by it

Test methods

EN 12667:2001

Thermal performance of building materials and products. Determination of thermal resistance by means of guarded hot plate and heat flow meter methods. Products of high and medium thermal resistance

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Method for measuring thermal resistance and thermal conductivity with a guarded hot plate or a heat flow meter.
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Parameters measured by it

EN 1607:2013

Thermal insulating products for building applications. Determination of tensile strength perpendicular to faces

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Method for measuring the tensile strength of an insulation board perpendicular to its faces.
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Parameters measured by it

EN 1604:2013

Thermal insulating products for building applications. Determination of dimensional stability under specified temperature and humidity conditions

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Method for measuring changes in length, width and thickness under set temperature and humidity.
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Parameters measured by it

EN 826:2013

Thermal insulating products for building applications. Determination of compression behaviour

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Method for compressive stress and compressive strength. Withdrawn and replaced by EN ISO 29469:2022. Replaced by EN ISO 29469:2022
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No certificate or report rests on this standard.
Parameters measured by it
No product parameter on this site is measured by it.

EN ISO 29469:2022

Thermal insulating products for building applications. Determination of compression behaviour

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Method for compressive stress at 10 % deformation and compressive strength of insulation products.
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Parameters measured by it

EN ISO 29767:2019

Thermal insulating products for building applications. Determination of short-term water absorption by partial immersion

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Method for the water an insulation product takes up during short-term partial immersion.
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Parameters measured by it
No product parameter on this site is measured by it.

EN ISO 16535:2019

Thermal insulating products for building applications. Determination of long-term water absorption by immersion

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Method for the water an insulation product takes up during long-term immersion.
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Parameters measured by it
No product parameter on this site is measured by it.

EN ISO 1182:2020

Reaction to fire tests for products. Non-combustibility test

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Furnace test that records the temperature rise, mass loss and sustained flaming of a specimen.
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Parameters measured by it
No product parameter on this site is measured by it.

EN ISO 1716:2010

Reaction to fire tests for products. Determination of the gross heat of combustion (calorific value)

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Method for the gross heat of combustion of a product. EN 13501-1:2018 cites the 2010 edition by date.
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Parameters measured by it
No product parameter on this site is measured by it.

GB/T 10294-2008

Thermal insulation. Determination of steady-state thermal resistance and related properties. Guarded hot plate apparatus

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Chinese guarded hot plate method for thermal resistance and thermal conductivity.
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No certificate or report rests on this standard.
Parameters measured by it

GB/T 10295-2008

Thermal insulation. Determination of steady-state thermal resistance and related properties. Heat flow meter apparatus

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Chinese heat flow meter method for thermal resistance and thermal conductivity.
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No certificate or report rests on this standard.
Parameters measured by it

GB/T 5480-2017

Test methods for mineral wool and its products

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Methods for fibre diameter, shot content, acidity coefficient and other properties of mineral wool.
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No certificate or report rests on this standard.
Parameters measured by it

GB/T 8811-2008

Test method for dimensional stability of rigid cellular plastics

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Method for dimensional change of a specimen held at set temperature and humidity.
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No certificate or report rests on this standard.
Parameters measured by it

GB/T 32379-2015

Determination of formaldehyde emission from mineral wool and its products

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Method for the formaldehyde emission of mineral wool products.
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No certificate or report rests on this standard.
Parameters measured by it

GB/T 18696.2-2002

Acoustics. Determination of sound absorption coefficient and impedance in impedance tubes. Part 2: Transfer function method

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Impedance tube method for the normal-incidence sound absorption coefficient of a small specimen.
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No certificate or report rests on this standard.
Parameters measured by it

IMO 2010 FTP Code

International Code for Application of Fire Test Procedures, 2010

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IMO fire test procedures for ships. Part 1 is the non-combustibility test behind the CCS works approval on file; A, B and F class divisions are tested as whole constructions under Part 3.
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Parameters measured by it
No product parameter on this site is measured by it.

GOST 30244-94

Building materials. Methods for combustibility test

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Russian combustibility test. The voluntary certificate on file classes one density grade as non-combustible (NG).
Parameters measured by it
No product parameter on this site is measured by it.

Approval schemes

FM Approvals Class 4470

FM Approvals Class 4470 approval for roof insulation

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FM Approvals scheme for roofing. The approval on file covers the Hardroof 180 roof board only.
Parameters measured by it
No product parameter on this site is measured by it.

Directive 2011/65/EU, Annex II as amended by (EU) 2015/863

Restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment

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EU limits for ten restricted substances. The report on file detected none of them in the rock wool sample.
Parameters measured by it
No product parameter on this site is measured by it.

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