International Catalogue

Basic Knowledge of Fastening Technology
Basic Knowledge of Fastening Technology
Approvals, markings and
their importance
European Technical Approval -
Option 1 for cracked concrete
In the following, excerpts of approvals that are currently issued in Europe and their
symbols will be given with their corresponding importance:
Please check wether your application is safety relevant.
An application is safety relevant when failure of anchorages would cause risk to human
life or serious injuries and/or lead to considerable economic consequences. In this case
please use anchors with a European Technical (ETA) or with a German Approval. You may
recognise these anchors by:
European Technical Approval
issued by a European approval authority
(e.g. DIBt) on the basis of the
guidelines for European technical
approvals (ETAG)
ETA: European Technical Approval/
Options 1–12
CE: European conformity mark confirms
the compliance of the building
product (e.g. fixing) with the guidelines
for European Technical Approvals.
Products with the CE mark can
be freely traded in the European
economic market.
Z-21.2-1734
General building authority
approval
German approval, issued by the
DIBt, Berlin for anchorings in concrete
to be dimensioned according
to Method A (CC method).
Proof of compliance of the building
product with the general building
authority approval. confirmed by a
material testing facility.
ESR-2948
See ICC-ES
Evaluation Report
at www.ic-es.org
Inspection agency:
IEA (AA-707)
CC = International Code Council,
formed from BOCA, ICBO
and SBCCI
ICC Evaluation Service Inc. (ICC ES)
issues evaluation reports, in this
case for the above anchor based
upon the Uniform Building CodeTM
and related codes in the United
States of America.
General building authority
approval
German approval, issued by the
DIBt, Berlin.
Proof of compliance of the building
product with the general building
authority approval. confirmed by a
material testing facility.
FM Certificate
Recognised for use in local waterbased
fire extinguisger systems
(Factory Mutual Research Corporation
for Property Conservation, American
insurance company).
Fire-tested fixing
The fixing was subjected to a fire
test. A “Examination report regarding
testing for fire behaviour“ (with
F class) is available.
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