Certification of Gas Extinguishing Systems

Detailed informationen for easing your processes

Ensuring highest flexibility + strong cost-saving: our

Modular approach

Meaning precisely:

Every device (like a nozzle or a container valve) is thoroughly tested for highest long-term effectivity. Clearly proven in our German laboratories.

Additional bonus: All parts can be handled nearly independent. Easing and accelerating exchanges + innovations anytime. Plus significantly increasing the lifespan of your system.

And the fact that we examine every single component for itself also ensures higher safety for the system in its entirety.

Easing and accelerating processes as well as saving your time and money with reliability proven in decades of certification.

adapted by European standardisation from its very beginning: The VdS concept has become mandatory by EU law (Construction Product Regulation CPR).
fully compatible with NFPA installation requirements.

The “all-round-worry-free concept”:
VdS System Approval

One of our many unique assurances: VdS always certifies the flawless interaction of every single component in realistic interaction.

This proven and comprehensive loss prevention concept is preferred by experts around the world as “all-round carefree package”.

Bonus: VdS systems are not only renowned for maximum reliability, but also for decades of fault-free use. Thanks to the modular design, components can be easily replaced without the system losing its Approval.

Another Plus: for VdS-approved components, system compatibility is certified at maximum speed directly on the basis of your technical documentation.

In short:

Parts manufacturers directly gain strong and flexible market access with high-class products.

Users, authorities + insurers profit from the optimal flexibility of the VdS-approach with its demonstrated and fully reliable safety.

Optimal back-up without costy fire tests

Saving time and money for you + your customers: with VdS, real fire tests are directly ticked off – through specifications precisely confirmed from hundreds of floodings conducted in our laboratories. And with a mass of clearly defined scenarios in our P + I Guidelines.

For your No.1 evidence of success, we bundle over 115 years safety knowledge + 100 % proven certainty on the characteristics of all typical agents (e.g. CO₂, IG-01, IG-541, IG-100, IG-55, HFC 227ea, FK-5-1-12).

So every VdS-approved product already includes the fire test methods which will every time anew be performed expensive and time-consuming by other laboratories.

Base of your Approval:

Additional relief for you: Our Guidelines, renowned for highest practicality, will ease and secure your development work.

Named “technical holy books“ by the international safety press, our compact support for producers is setting fire protection standards worldwide – and regularly forms the basis for new international norms.

All testing details and important development support for free download:

Systems - requirements and test methods (VdS 2454)

Room protection nozzles (VdS 3179)

Pressure regulators in the extinguishing agent flow (VdS 3826)

Container valves with integrated pressure regulators (VdS 3827)

(further products tested acc. to EN standards – created with strong VdS input)

Our testing services for you include

all system components like

alarm, stop, weigh, delay, disable, regulation devices
valves, hoses, nozzles
pressure reducers + regulators

for inert gases. CO₂-HP / LP. Halocarbons. You need it – we test it.

Innovation Approvals:

No standards or VdS-Guidelines for your new developments? With the No.1 for safety, you can nonetheless prove and highlight optimal product reliability directly from market entry on: through individual test agreements developed together with you.

Which often form the base of new EN and ISO standards.

For your planning security, we rapidly test the certifiability of your innovations.

Far more than 750 global Approvals:

Please find here all components and systems certified by VdS for optimal safety.

Your VdS-Approval – why all this?

3,400 fire deaths in the US, 3,000 in China, 6 Billion Euros fire damage in Germany, 126 Billion Dollars, approximately 1 % of GDP, in India – every single year.

Typical cause: electrical defects (stated by every international study on this matter). In computers, ventilation, lighting, or the mass of wall plugs — threatening every single building, every single business sector. These danger sources are very common especially in locations housing IT and production equipment.

Fire + also water damages in such areas bring the entire company to a standstill – indefinitely. Even top clients are then forced to leave. Those non-insurable losses are the reason why 74 % of companies affected by fire go out of business (German + US insurer studies).

Reliable gas extinguishing systems detain fire immediately without any residues.

Corporate + institutional decision-makers want to make sure that those complex systems for the protection of lives and costy property will function safely.

You can provide this essential evidence directly at first sight:

With your VdS-Approval.