An independent accredited testing platform, expert in fire safety of cables and materials at your service

Based on decades of experience, Nexans Nuremberg plant offers fire and chemical testing to Nexans entities and external customers. We are a worldwide player and leader in fire safety with long-term materials expertise, making a valuable contribution to the development of international standards.

Do you require support for qualification, research and innovation, or troubleshooting in production?
Do you have questions related to cable materials, failure analyses, or quality issues?
We can help you!

Our know-how of polymeric materials, processes and testing equipment has been built up over many years. Our expertise covers combustion behaviour and material tests for cabling and wires. In addition, we offer a wide range of analytical methods or mechanical tests for materials not limited to the cable industry.
Testing is carried out at our Nuremberg testing competence centre on materials and fire safety.
Since 2009, we hold a DAkkS accreditation for test laboratories according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025. Any internal or external customer can send us samples and expect our full support for an independent evaluation. As a proof of independency, we already the platform perform tests for some of the leading certification bodies.

Test on cables

Testing is carried out at our Nuremberg testing competence centre on materials and fire safety.

Whatever standard your cable needs to comply to, with over 40 accredited tests, we have got you covered. We have very specific skills in the area of fire testing.

All fire tests on cable are accredited, but not limited to a specific market. Therefore we can test all kinds of cables such as automotive, automation, aerospace, wind turbines, or rolling stock indutry.

Any internal or external customer can send us samples and expect our full support for an independent evaluation. As a proof of independency, we already perform test for some of the leading certification bodies.

DAkkS

ACCREDITATION SINCE 2009

ISO-IEC

Certification (17025)

Accredited tests

Accredited fire tests on cables

Single wire fire tests	Bunched cable fire tests	Resistance to fire (circuiti ntegrity tests)	Smoke emission (smoke density test)
_{> DIN EN 60332-1-2 (VDE 0482-332-1-2) > DIN EN 60332-1-3 (VDE 0482-332-1-3)}	_{> DIN EN 60332-3-21 bis -25 (VDE 0482-332-3-21 bis -25) > DIN VDE 0276-604 (VDE 0276-604) > DIN EN 50305 (VDE 0260-305) Abschnitt 9.1}	_{> DIN EN 50200 (VDE 0482-200) > DIN EN IEC 60331-1}	_{> DIN EN 61034-2 (VDE 0482-1034-2)}
_{> IEC 60332-1-2 > IEC 60332-1-3}	_{> IEC 60332-3-21 to -25}	_{> IEC 60331-1 > IEC 60331-2 > IEC 60331-21 and -23}	_{> IEC 61034-2}
_{> ISO 6722-1 Punkt 5.22 > ISO 6722-2 Punkt 5.22 > ISO 14572 Punkt 5.21}

Test of materials

Based on our experience in material development, we are also accredited to test materials.

Our chemical lab combines materials testing expertise with in-depth analytical evaluation. Through deep-dive analytical tests, we can evaluate materials very precisely using analytical capabilities such as infrared spectroscopy (IR), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), high-performance thin layer chromatography (TC) or gas chromatography (GC).

Our expertise and facilities make it possible to use materials testing for quality assurance and benchmarking purposes. We can analyze the material and see whether the formula is appropriate for the intended goal, or where it deviates from a specification.

That makes it possible to answer all kinds of questions: was there a problem in the compounding process? Or in processing? We can explain the issues and find a solution. Pretesting a certain design or material is also possible, or we can cross-check methods and equipment to verify testing carried out elsewhere. We can also help to qualify alternative materials, find the cause of errors and defects, define corrective actions, and support process and quality improvement

Accredited tests on materials

Toxicity	Halogen acid gas	Halogen content
> Defense standard 02-713 > EN 50305 (VDE 0260-305)	> DIN EN 60754-1 (VDE 0482-754-1) > IEC 60754-1 > DIN EN 60754-2 (VDE 0482-754-2) > IEC 60754-2	> DIN VDE 0472-815 (VDE 0472-815) > DIN EN 60684-2 (VDE 0341-2); Abschnitt 45 > IEC 60684-2; clause 45

Customer Satisfaction

Customer satisfaction is essential and our key performance indicators (KPIs) take that into account.

“ We are able to analyze materials and to test cables. We can qualify alternative materials, but also explain problems that arise and thus help to find the cause of errors and defects, define corrective actions and support process and quality improvements ”

Christian Lankes

Quality Health Safety Environment Manager