Is UL Certification for Polyimide Tapes necessary?

In an ear­li­er post, we asked this ques­tion, but it’s come back again and again, so we want to address again, in more detail, and with an aim for discussion.

We are often asked if our prod­ucts are UL Cer­ti­fied. Cus­tomers often as us because they in turn need to pro­vide UL cer­ti­fi­ca­tion on their prod­ucts. We under­stand this, but that’s almost beside the point.

The rea­son is because UL cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is giv­en on a prod­uct-by-prod­uct basis and each UL cer­ti­fi­ca­tion test costs about $1000. If we get UL cer­ti­fi­ca­tion on PIT1S (1mil sil­i­cone adhe­sive poly­imide tape) then this does not mean it extends to PIT1A (same poly­imide back­ing but acrylic adhe­sive instead of sil­i­cone) or to PIT2S (same poly­imide back­ing, same sil­i­cone adhe­sive, 2mil thick­ness instead of 1mil).

So, yes, we can make extrap­o­la­tions based on the results of the data, but we can­not “extrap­o­late” UL-cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. So what’s the point? Fur­ther­more, cus­tomers often require UL cer­ti­fi­ca­tion on the final prod­ucts they make that use the poly­imide tape, which means they still have to go through UL cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of their own — whether or not CAPLINQ has UL-cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

So the short answer to the ques­tion is YES, we have UL-cer­ti­fi­ca­tion on some prod­ucts, NO, we do not have UL-Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion on all prod­ucts, and YES, we can

get UL-cer­ti­fi­ca­tion on the poly­imide tapes you require — this is only con­di­tion­al on the num­ber of rolls in ques­tions and who will pay for the UL-certification.

Vis­it caplinq.com to learn more about our selec­tion of poly­imide tape and films some of which will have a UL-list­ing already and oth­ers that would need to be sub­mit­ted to UL if a EU-cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is absolute­ly needed.

About Chris Perabo

Chris is an energetic and enthusiastic engineer and entrepreneur. He is always interested in taking highly technical subjects and distilling these to their essence so that even the layman can understand. He loves to get into the technical details of an issue and then understand how it can be useful for specific customers and applications. Chris is currently the Director of Business Development at CAPLINQ.

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