LCIE is an important player in the CB-Scheme
 LCIE (Laboratoire Central des Industries Electriques) was founded over a century ago (1882) to meet the specific needs of companies working in the field of electricity, electronics or related technologies. Its fields of expertise include conformity assessment (certification, inspection and testing), metrology, expert analysis.
LCIE has offices in France (Fontenay aux Roses, Lyon and Toulouse), China (Shanghai) and the United States (Washington) and is also able to call on a worldwide network of partners. Its aims are to provide companies with services that enhance the quality of their products on every market, in Europe and around the world. Working in close partnership with manufacturers, LCIE helps them to gain a competitive edge and capture market shares.
Conformity assessment
LCIE assesses all kinds of electrical and electronic products and certifies their conformity to French, European and international standards and regulations. Further upstream, it helps companies to find their way through the maze of standards and regulations and identify those that apply to their products. LCIE can provide tailored services to ensure that products meet the conformity requirements of a specific market, or a comprehensive package for regulatory and voluntary certification for accessing to world-wide markets. In the context of the single European market, LCIE is a notified and competent body for the European directives covering electrical and electronic products. Authorised by French standards association AFNOR to grant the French NF mark, it also grants or allows to grant various European and international quality marks (e.g.: HAR, ENEC, CECC, EMC, Keymark, GS, CSA, UL, Gost R, IECQ…).
Of course LCIE since a long time is an important player in the CB-Scheme which is a powerful tool to enter different market world-wide. Confident in the necessity to develop more appropriate tools that allow products to access to larger markets while preserving the safety and the quality level of those products, LCIE is among the first to promote actively the Full Certification Scheme (FCS). This type of Scheme is bound to provide users and national authorities what they are looking for : confidence in products. LCIE is proud to contribute to this goal through the means that are offered in the IEC world.
LCIE is able to complete the entire certification process. This covers examining a product, testing the product according to standards covering target markets, issuing a certificate or granting right of use of a mark, performing factory inspections and audits and then monitoring continuous conformity by means of inspections and tests on product samples. At European and International levels, LCIE offers manufacturers access to numerous national marks under mutual recognition agreements with other certification bodies.
Metrology
LCIE's metrology laboratories, accredited by French accreditation committee COFRAC are highly specialized in the fields of electricity, optics, ionizing radiation, temperature, time-frequency and magnetism.
Expert analysis
Besides and separate from the Certification and Testing activities, LCIE may provide clients such insurance or courts of law with technical and methodological expertise. This may cover measuring the performance of a product in a given environment, assessing and preventing industrial risks or solving complex technical problems in close relation with safety.
Competence
LCIE's engineers possess proven expertise in numerous technical fields, including materials, electronic components, environmental stresses, electromagnetic compatibility, physics-chemical analysis. LCIE staff is involved in IEC technical committees and participates actively in CAB, IECEE-CMC, IECQ-CMC and CTL, IECEX-XMC and ExTAG.
Main figures:
Turnover: 32 M euros,
Investment: 2.8 M euros,
Net income: 0.7 M euros,
Staff: 438.
For further information, refer to www.lcie.fr
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