TÜV SÜD China introduces TÜV Standby Mark and provides special offers

Standby functionalities of electrical and electronic products draw more and more energy each year. The annual electricity consumption related to standby functionalities and off-mode energy losses only for the EU alone have been estimated to have reached 47 TWh just for the year 2005. Currently, national or regional administrations all over the world, such as EU Member States, U.S.A, Canada, Korea, are taking strict measures to reduce the standby power consumption of the electrical and electronic products. Buyers and consumers have also started to pay more attention to this issue. How to prove your products have low standby power consumption? How to make your products stand out from the crowd of so many devices and to be preferred by both buyers and consumers? As one of the world's leading technical services providers, TÜV SÜD introduces TÜV Standby Mark. With high recognition of ‘TÜV SÜD’ all around the world, TÜV Standby Mark will prominently identify your products featuring high energy savings.

• Covered products: All electrical and electronic products with standby function
• Applicable market: Global markets
• Standby Power: < 0.1 W, < 0.3 W, < 0.5 W or < 1.0 W

From now to the end of October 2011, this new “TÜV Standby Mark certificate” can be offered freely to our customers if the following conditions are met:

• Promotion Period: June 2011 to October 2011
• Details:
  • For TÜV SÜD existing clients (with valid TÜV SÜD Mark certificate), if he/she has standby testing done in TÜV SÜD laboratories within South region during the above promotion period, he/she can get “TÜV Standby Mark certificate” with no additional cost and, in addition first-year annual fee will be waived for the respective TÜV Standby Mark certificate.
  • For every new client, if he/she has standby testing done in TÜV SÜD Laboratories within South China  during the above promotion period, with only the additional cost of a factory inspection, he/she can get “TÜV Standby Mark certificate”; what is more, the first-year annual fee is waived.