Certification of Gas Extinguishing Systems

Your very best Selling Point: VdS-Approval

Make it easy for customers to directly decide for your technology: More than 115 years of trust in the German VdS Quality Seal are transferred straight into your approved products.

All relevant standards + the requirements of the most important insurers already included. Fully applicable to CE and NFPA.

No more difficult explanations necessary: With state-accredited VdS, your systems + components are instantly recommended by authorities worldwide, preferred by insurers, consultants and buying decision-makers on all continents.

Your further advantages with VdS:

Top Sales Boost with the global No.1 Quality Seal for safety responsibles.
No expensive, time-consuming fire tests on location necessary – easing your work, minimizing your costs.
VdS-Approval ensures long-term functionality, also due to modular design. Pleasant bonus: Your customers save a lot of effort + money on maintenance and repairs.
Your VdS voice in more than 90 global norm committees – we pave the way for future safety.
Always included: highly detailed test report precisely listing your products´ advantages. Easing decisions for authorities, consultants, insurers +++ worldwide.
Comprehensive consulting comes first: For you, we bring the high complexity of modern gas extinguishing technology in line with the often rigid norm requirements.

VdS certifies gas extinguishing systems since they were first used – and has globally become synonymous with precisely proven reliability.

What exactly are we doing to ensure your Success?

Series or custom-made products: VdS certification services cover the entire value chain, often even by testing during development. Including system Approval.

Practical endurance tests

e.g. under 3 times the working pressure at up to 1,500 bar,
or after oven tests at 600°C with cryogenic CO₂,
under vibration + further environmental stress (like in many industrial locations),

in a globally unique infrastructure, technically as well as personally, located right in the middle of Germany, have one goal:

To provide clear evidence of the long-term efficiency of your developments. Your decisive competitive edge.

Bonus: All relevant standards from a single source. VdS, CE, UL – saving you effort as well as costs and reducing your time-to-market.

Detailed information for simplifying your processes:

Ensuring highest flexibility + strong cost-saving: modular approach

Save time and money: no fire tests necessary for system Approval

What exactly do we certify? (+ innovation Approvals)

Pluspoints: why gas extinguishing systems?

Over 750 worldwide Approvals:

Find here all components and systems certified for optimal safety.

Directly become 1st choice for buyers, insurers, authorities:

Your way to the

No.1 Certificate

for safety decision-makers

Focus on your success: we reduce your time-to-market to a minimum – ensuring your life-saving systems + components will be in use successfully and on time.

1. Test planning

Specifying our joint certification target (including comprehensive standard consulting). You directly receive your certification plan with precise schedule + transparent cost breakdown.

2. Sample handover

or delivery.

3. Tests, issue of the test report, Certification

Experts from our state-accredited approval body (one-stop service for maximum completion speed) verify + certify the test results.

4. Done. You receive your VdS-Approval

and can now highlight your components / systems with this highly valuable distinguishing feature.

No more discussions with technical users, insurers, authorities – more than 115 years of highest confidence in VdS-reliability are transferred directly into your products.

Straight to the order