Triveneta in trouble with cord production fault

  Posted by: electime      6th February 2018

The Approved Cables Initiative (ACI) has reported that Italian cable company, La Triveneta Cavi (LTC) has confirmed it experienced a production fault that resulted in a flexible cord cable with exposed copper conductors going on sale in the UK.

The cables, which failed the British and European Standards flex test, were tested through random market place sampling by the ACI. After an increase in reports of substandard cable, The Initiative are said to be being more thorough than ever.

LTC has put the incident down to a potential issue with the ‘running-in’ phase of a new production plant in Moldova at the end of 2016 into early 2017.

Since the news of the production fault emerged, certification body IMQ has indicated that it has been investigating the issues within the Triveneta factory. LTC has confirmed that they have been working with the certification body and following latest inspections, no problems were detected and BASEC has said that a further batch of the previously faulty cables had passed relevant tests.

ACI has said the faulty cable initially released could have caused electric shock or even death if they were to come into contact with a user.

The failed cables were marked with the manufacturers identification ‘La Triveneta Cavi’, dated 2016 and were labelled with the IEMMEQU <HAR> approval mark. The cables are orange and white in colour, however the ACI has suggested taking caution with every colour.

For further advice on this issue and other substandard cable can be found at www.aci.org.uk  or you can also call 0208 946 6978/07973 636688 or email info@aci.org.uk.