Getting a CRRC Product Rating

If you have not already become licensed with the CRRC, you will need to do so before you can obtain a CRRC Product Rating.  Please click here for more information. 

Product Rating Overview

Now that you are licensed with the CRRC, there are a few other required steps to obtain a product rating:

  1. Choose an AITL, and send your product samples along with a Test Results Report and Test Farm Notification (see below) to the lab for an initial testing.  Please call the AITL directly to coordinate testing of samples and fees for their services.
  2. Contact a CRRC Test Farm to coordinate 3-year weathering (and fees for service) with them.  Test farm placement dates occur on the solstices and equinoxes of each calendar year, and are as follows: March 21, June 21, September 21, and December 21.
  3. When your selected AITL has completed initial testing, they will send the Test Results Report to you, and send your samples directly to the Test Farm for 3-year weathering. 
  4. Once you have received the Test Results Report back, return your application packet and fees to the CRRC (please see below for all the necessary forms).
  • Note: Once your company's 3-year weathering samples have aged for their duration, you will need to coordinate again with an AITL of your choice to retest your product for an aged rating.  See below for information on the aged rating process.

There are a few types of product ratings: Standard, Private Labeled, Color Family Groups, and Aged.

Interested in a Standard Product Rating?

We strongly recommend reading this instructional document so that you can be sure you have completed the necessary steps in the product rating process. 

To obtain a CRRC Product Rating, you will need to fill out and return the following forms and fees:

    1. Contractor/Distributor Contact Form (CRRC-F-9) 
    2. A copy of the letter sent to Contractor/Distributors. A template can be downloaded here for modification. 
    3. Sample Collection Instructions Form (CRRC-F-10) 

Note: If you are rating an Other Manufacturer (OM) product**, you may not use the CRRC Product Label.  If you are rating an LS product, once your product has been processed, a CRRC staffperson will e-mail you the CRRC Product Label files.

Interested in a Private Label Product Rating? 

Please click here for an instructional sheet with more detailed information specifically pertaining to private label product rating.

The following must be submitted for a Licensed Seller to rate a private-labeled product:

  • Product Rating Application (CRRC-F-3)
  • OM Rating Authorization (CRRC-F-6) (LS must make sure that the radiative properties displayed here reflect the same measured values as those listed for the OM product on the Rated Product Directory)
  • Appropriate Product Rating Application fee ($240 per product)
  • Your products will be eligible for selection by the CRRC Random Testing Program and you must also provide the following:
    1. Contractor/Distributor Contact Form (CRRC-F-9) 
    2. A copy of the letter sent to Contractor/Distributors. A template can be downloaded here for modification. 
    3. Sample Collection Instructions Form (CRRC-F-10) 


Interested in a Color Family Product Rating?

The Color Family Program is designed for types of products that have thousands of colors within a narrowly defined color range, for example factory-coated metal. The CRRC allows groups of colors that fit within this narrow range and are of a given binder/resin material technology to be rated as one group, sharing a CRRC ID number.

As there is a lot that goes into a color family product rating, it is recommended that you read the CRRC instructional document "How do I Get a Color Family Product Rating?" as well as CRRC Procedure 3: Color Family Program.

A designated Color Family Representative Element must be rated first before a company can establish a color family.  For the initial rating of a Color Family Representative Element, submit the following :

    1. Contractor/Distributor Contact Form (CRRC-F-9) 
    2. A copy of the letter sent to Contractor/Distributors. A template can be downloaded here for modification. 
    3. Sample Collection Instructions Form (CRRC-F-10) 

 

Once this intial rating has been completed, the following must be submitted for Color Family Additional Elements (a Color Family Element that is not the Color Family Representative Element).

    1. Contractor/Distributor Contact Form (CRRC-F-9) 
    2. A copy of the letter sent to Contractor/Distributors. A template can be downloaded here for modification. 
    3. Sample Collection Instructions Form (CRRC-F-10) 

Interested in an Aged Product Rating?

Please click here for an instructional sheet with more detailed information specifically pertaining to the aged product rating process.

The following must be submitted for an aged rating:

    Note: The CRRC must receive aged rating documents within 90 days of the product's removal from the test farm (e.g. if you product is removed on September 21, we must receive necessary documentation by December 21.  The CRRC will consider suspending your product's rating if this deadline lapses.

Do you have a question that wasn't answered here?  Check out our FAQs page or e-mail info@coolroofs.org.

Looking for a full list of CRRC forms?  Click here

*LS product: the term CRRC uses to describe a company that manufactures a product, and sells that product to market under its own brand name.

**OM product:the term CRRC uses to describe a company that sells a finished product or product component to another licensed seller, who then brings the product to market.

 

 

 

 

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