Confused about CE marking?

Me too, this topic seems to be something that many professionals within our industry argue about and contest. We often get asked by our customers if our rooflights are CE marked and an hour searching the web will find different rooflight manufacturers making different claims. The simple answer to the questions above is ‘no’ and at this present moment in time it isn’t actually possible to CE mark the type of unit we manufacture. Now if you find it a bit odd that in a world of standards and regulation there isn’t anything to cover our product then you might be right, but closer inspection of the standards does reveal that almost all types of material are covered apart from out of plane glass rooflights. Now, as a marketing bod I could continue to rattle on about how Glazing Vision products (with the exception of our xVent AOV) do not require CE marking in order to put your mind at rest and ultimately convince you to buy our product, but instead I want to concentrate here on looking at the existing standards individually and how they apply to glass rooflights. There are several exisiting harmonised European standards (hEN) and European Technical Approval Guidelines (ETAG) that exist which you should be aware of. The National Association of Rooflight Manufacturers (NARM) have released Technical Document NTD07 which covers this subject in a little more detail and you can read more by clicking the link below, but for a general summary please read on.