Access to the IGI Quality Mark

Each candidate manufacturer (IGI member only) who wishes to register product(s) for the IGI Quality Mark must:
• Complete one Questionnaire per product
• Submit a formal statement that its product conforms to the CEN Standards.
• Submit one roll of selected product (*) directly to the test house (Sample should be finished wrapped labelled product)
• Company to pay the annual IGI Quality Mark fee

(*) The IGI Quality Board will have the option to decide, based on the questionnaire(s) received, which product type to be tested. One product type per company will be tested.

Upon receipt of the results from the test house, the IGI Quality Mark will be:
• Granted Without Remark
• Granted With Remark
• Declined (**)

(**) If the application is declined the candidate manufacturer is advised to study the reason(s) for failure before a re-submission. A failure to comply may require changing the production method.
This particularly applies to the opacity test. Opacity requirement is unique to IGI and is a protection for wallcovering users. Some ‘paste the wall’ products place on the market have poor opacity.
Should candidate manufacturer decide to send sample for re-submission, testing costs will be covered by the company and a product from same category will be selected for testing.

IGI Quality Mark Renewal

Each year, the companies who are using the IGI Quality Mark and wish to continue to use it for an additional year must:

• Resubmit a questionnaire for the selected product(s)
• Submit 3 roll- labels, batch numbers and scans of  different designs including production date for each product type
• IGI will randomly pick one label and confirm the product selected to the manufacturer
• Manufacturer will send select roll (properly wrapped and labelled) directly to test house
• Pay the annual IGI Quality Mark fee

Each year, no more than one sample per company will be tested. The selected sample will be tested on all criteria.

The test result is sent anonymously to the IGI Quality Board which will decide which measures to apply in case of remarks:

• Automatic withdrawal
• Warning requiring additional testing at the company’s costs
• Simple warning in writing

If necessary, the manufacturer may appeal against the decision in front of the IGI Executive Committee.

IGI Quality Mark Annual Fee

IGI Member – Fee First Year: 1.500 Euro
IGI Member – Renewal Fee/Year: 995Euro

IGI Quality Board
The IGI Quality Board will be comprised of the IGI Technical Committee members,  1 member of the Executive Committee and the IGI Secretary General.

Test House

The IGI Quality Board will be the contact with the selected test house:

Centexbel
Technologiepark 7
BE- 9052 Zwijnaarde
Belgium
www.centexbel.be

The IGI Quality Mark Symbol
The symbol as used on rolls should be printed in black, and should have a dimension of not less than 10mm and not more than 20mm diameter.
Print ready logo of the symbol will be furnished to each company by IGI once the IGI Secretariat has received satisfactory statements from the Test House.

To obtain the IGI Quality Mark, please contact IGI Secretariat on info@igiwallcoverings.org