Conformity assessment services

About our service

As a manufacturer, especially when it comes to new construction of industrial equipment, you may need third party technical assurance to prove to your clients that your assets are complying with certain statutory requirements, regulations and/or standards. This helps reducing risks to staff, third party, the environment and your business as a whole.

Our energy business in Asia has the expertise and infrastructure to address successfully the conformity assessment needs of all industry sectors utilising high value, safety and performance critical assets.

How we can help

We are leading providers of ‘type approval’ assessment and certification activities. These include attesting to a product’s conformity with specific standards or specifications including verification of an appropriate production quality system. Where no standards or specifications exist, we have the capability to develop them.

We are authorized to carry out inspection of pressure vessels to almost all international codes & standards including:

We are the world’s premier ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) authorised Assurance Agency outside the USA and the most renowned and one of the most reputable notified bodies for the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED).

Through our subsidiary company, Lloyd’s Register Insurance Inc., we provide a full range of services to the ASME code worldwide. Compliance with the ASME codes is required for boilers, vessels & nuclear power components imported into the USA & Canada and often part of buyer’s criteria for projects worldwide.

LR Insurance, Inc. is also accredited by the National Board of Pressure Vessel Inspectors for the provision of advisory and inspection services to repair pressure equipments to the requirements of the National Board Inspection Code (NBIC).

Appointed as a notified body for the PED, we provide the necessary expertise worldwide to help you understand the equipment requirements and achieve compliance.

EU directives for which Lloyd’s Register Group is a notified body:

• PED (97/23/EC)

• TPED (1999/36/EC)

• ATEX (94/9/EC)

• Machinery Directive (98/37/EC)

• Lifts Directive (95/16/EC)

• Noise Emissions (2000/14/EC)

• Gas Appliances (90/396/EEC)

• Medical Devices (93/42/EEC)

• Marine Equipment (96/98/EC and amendments)

• Construction Products (89/106/EEC)

• In-vitro diagnostic medical devices (98/79/EEC and amendments)

• High Speed European Rail Interoperability (96/48/EC)

• Interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system (2001/16/EC).

Being one of the leading notified bodies for many years, we understand the application of EU directives across a range of industries. You will benefit from this wealth of experience, and we can work with you as your notified body for the most relevant directives.

  PED (Pressure Equipment Directive) and Lloyd’s Register Asia

To assure conformity to this directive and be allowed to display the CE-marking, the majority of pressure equipment and assemblies have to be assessed by a notified body (NoBo) before being placed on the common market of the EU and EFTA.

Appointed as a notified body for the PED, we provide the necessary expertise worldwide to help you understand the requirements and achieve compliance.

Our PED services include:

• assessment of quality systems-quality modules

• design and type examination

• unit and product verification

• surveillance/monitoring of the final assessment

• approval of materials

• approval of joining personnel and procedures

• approval of NDE personnel.

  ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and Lloyd’s Register Asia

Through our subsidiary company LR Insurance, Inc., we are accredited by ASME to provide advisory and inspection services to manufacturers who need to manufacture pressure equipment to the requirements of the ASME code. This is mandatory for equipment imported into the USA and parts of Canada and is also specified by many clients world wide as a manufacturing standard.

Our ASME services include:

• advice on procedure to obtain the ASME certification

• assist in preparing the establishing Quality Assurance programs and control Systems

• help prepare the Quality manuals

• attend ASME reviews and surveys

• provide Authorized Inspectors to inspect

• train personnel in requirements of the ASME code.

LR Insurance, Inc. is also accredited by the National Board of Pressure Vessel Inspectors for the provision of advisory and inspection services to repair pressure equipment to the requirements of the National Board Inspection Code (NBIC).

It will be relevant to note here that we are the world’s premier ASME authorised Inspection Agency outside the USA.
To view further details on our ASME related services, please visit www.lr-insurance.com

 

Why choose Lloyd’s Register Asia’s conformity assessment services

The benefits you derive

• We help you meet legal and statutory requirements.

• You are assured of the highest technical standards of design, manufacture, construction, maintenance, operation and performance, for the purpose of enhancing the safety of life and property at sea, on land and in the air.

• You benefit from our global reach and team of highly talented and committed surveyors equipped with outstanding professional knowledge and technical expertise.

• As our client, you are assured of quality - quality of service, of technology and of solutions.