Own test rigs and certificates guarantee safe cargo securing. We’ve developed a routine for our safety efforts and it applies to everything from the initial order to the issued certificates. The test procedures vary, based on whether the products will be used for road or rail transport,” explains Roger Larsson, Head of ExTe’s Development Department. “The purpose of the test routines is to ensure that our products meet the requirements for safe cargo securing. When customers have not specified their own guidelines, ours will apply. The guidelines are based on comprehensive, established regulations and certification requirements,” he says. “We conduct our own load, tension and endurance tests, along with tests on how and where to apply the force e.g. tensioners and hoops,” says Roger. “We also have service agreements in place with regulatory bodies, who periodically check our test instruments. Furthermore, we perform our own checks of equipment on a quarterly basis,” he says. ExTe has an appointed operator at the company with the specific task of carrying out these checks in accordance with established routines.
When it comes to safe cargo securing, false promises must never be made. For this, we truly stand behind our word and ExTe has been developing methods for testing our products for many years. We are currently one of the few manufacturers of timber bunks in the world with our own test rigs and certificates.
“I’m quite certain that our thorough documentation and traceability of the tests makes us unique when it comes to cargo securing for timber transports.” Once the product has been put through the testing procedure and obtained approval, ExTe will then issue a certificate guaranteeing that the product meets the requirements on the limits that apply. There is also backward traceability on all of the test results upon which the certificate was based, which external auditors may require evidence of, for various reasons. “I’m quite certain that our thorough documentation and traceability of the tests makes us unique when it comes to cargo securing for timber transports,” says Roger Larsson. ExTe Magazine| 3
