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:
- 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.
- Contact a CRRC Test Farm
to coordinate 3-year weathering (and fees for service) with
them.
- 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.
- 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.
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:
-
Contractor/Distributor Contact Form (CRRC-F-9)
- A copy of the letter
sent to Contractor/Distributors. A template can be downloaded here for
modification.
- 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.
If you would like to
use the Rated Products Logo to promote your CRRC Rated Product, please
also sign and return the following agreement. For more
information about the Rated Products Logo, you can read the
instructional document "How
Do I Use the CRRC Logo?".
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:
- Contractor/Distributor
Contact Form (CRRC-F-9)
- A copy of the letter sent to
Contractor/Distributors. A template can be downloaded here for
modification.
- 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 :
- Product
Rating Application (CRRC-F-3)
- Test Results
Report (CRRC-F-2)
- Corresponding color family group fee ($215 per color family group, including representative element, not including additional elements)
- If your company is rating an LS
product*, your products will be eligible for selection
by the CRRC Random Testing Program and you must also provide the
following:
- Contractor/Distributor
Contact Form (CRRC-F-9)
- A copy of the letter
sent to Contractor/Distributors. A template can be downloaded here
for modification.
- 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).
- Contractor/Distributor
Contact Form (CRRC-F-9)
- A copy of the letter
sent to Contractor/Distributors. A template can be downloaded here
for modification.
- 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:
- Aged
Product Rating Application (CRRC-F-11)
- Aged
Test Results Report (CRRC-F-13)
- There is no fee
associated with 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 your 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 contact us.
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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