I was recently asked to testify as an expert witness in front of a House of Communes Permanent Committee that wanted to know about the benefits and issues the Canadian General Standards Board provides Canadians. Below is a transcript of…
Government of Canada releases its long awaited Request for Supply Agreements for Office Seating (E60PQ-120001/B) and allows outdated test reports to be used to establish product compliance. Would you buy a chair based on a 20 year old test report?…
Our first time clients often wonder how the final report will look like once all the packaging tests have been performed on their products. To help you better visualize the document, we prepared a demo report that gives you an…
This document shows the 2005 mechanical testing to ANSI/BIFMA x5.4 & quote lounge and public seating tests compared to the 2012 official version. Learn more: If you have any questions about our furniture testing services, we invite you to contact…
This document shows the test-by-test comparison between ANSI/BIFMA X 5.9 2012 test and the ANSI/BIFMA X 5.9 2004 test. If you have any questions about furniture testing or ANSI/BIFMA testing, we invite you to contact us today.
Last Friday PWGSC held and enlarged GOFAC teleconference meeting on Office furniture. The main topics were: Various levels of technical requirements (Product description, CGSB, BIFMA…) Government specific requirements Office seating Supply Arrangement (SA) Panel systems SA PWGSC also had the…
PWGSC published its letter of interest for office seating. This is not a request for bids. However, Manufacturers should pay attention to this document as a lot of the requirements present in this document might well be used in the…
New BIFMA Chair Standard Micom Laboratories is happy to inform you that BIFMA just released its new version of BIFMA X5.1 for office chairs. The loads and forces used in this standard are based on the 95th percentile male body…
