At present, countries around the world have been paying special attention to the certification testing of import and export products, in the face of the urgent needs of customers and the increasingly strict safety certification testing regulations in the European and American markets, especially for the export of building materials flooring products testing and certification standards. Xingyuan testing agencies should be out, after several years of exploration and efforts, accumulated a lot of professional certification skills and experience, and established a good cooperative relationship with authoritative foreign certification experimental institutions.  

      As an important part of architectural decoration materials, the ground material (floor) is more directly related to our lives. Its circulation in the market therefore becomes important.  

      The floor material (floor) should highlight its unique quality characteristics to meet market requirements. A good floor must be beautiful, durable, well made, and not contain substances harmful to health.  

      Floor EU CE certification  

      For the European market, the European Commission pointed out that on March 1, 2008, solid wood flooring and solid wood composite flooring exports to Europe must be affixed with CE certification labels (in accordance with the Building Products Directive CPD 89/106/EEC EU standard EN14342); Laminate floor, PVC floor, elastic floor and other floor materials in March 2007, exports to Europe must be attached CE certification label (in line with the Building Products Directive CPD 89/106/EEC, EN14041).

      At the same time, wood flooring and reinforcement, elastic floor and carpet CE certification, should choose a floor certification qualification of the European Union notified body according to the system 3 (certificate description) for testing, evaluation and certification, so as to be able to be recognized by the majority of European buyers, especially large buyers, really effectively avoid European technical barriers, free sales.  

      The harmonized standards cited by European CE certification are:  

      Description Application date App. date Specifies the execution date  

      Enforced date 

      EN 14342:2005 EN 14342:2005 - Wood flooring - Characteristics, evaluation of conformity and marking. 

      EN14342:2005, Wood flooring - Characteristics, conformity assessment and CE marking 01/03/2006 01/03/2008 

      EN 14041:2004 EN 14041:2004 - Resilient, textile and laminate floor coverings - Essential characteristics 

      EN 14041:2004 – Elastic, textile and laminate flooring - Basic characteristics 01/01/2006 01/01/2007 

      EN 14411:200 EN 14411:2003 - Ceramic tiles - Definitions, classification, characteristics and marking 

      EN 14411:2003- Ceramic tiles - Definitions, classifications, characteristics and marks 01/12/2004 01/12/2005 

      EN 12058:2004 EN 12058:2004 - Natural stone products - Slabs for floors and stairs – Requirements 

      En 12058:2004- Natural stone products - Panels for floors and staircases - Requirements 01/09/2005 01/09/2006