The Business & Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) has approved new criteria for Product Conformance Requirements. The new document, BIFMA PC-2018 is available free of charge on BIFMA’s website.

The BIFMA Board of Directors and Engineering Committee worked closely together to develop these requirements. Historically, BIFMA offered a one-page guideline, ‘Statement of Conformance to BIFMA Standards’, which covered the most basic rules for making claims of compliance to ANSI/BIFMA standards. The Board determined a market need for more specific criteria to establish conformance. BIFMA PC-2018 Product Conformance Requirements offers detail-oriented guidance on test planning and protocols, sampling, and making claims of compliance.

BIFMA recommends that all manufacturers, specifiers, testing labs, and users of office and institutional furniture obtain a copy of BIFMA PC-2018 as this will enable all industry stakeholders to share a common understanding of Product Conformance.

Complimentary copies of PC-2018 are available from BIFMA immediately. This and other standards may be ordered online at https://www.bifma.org/store/ListProducts.aspx?catid=185078.