The European Fireplaces Association kicks off 2017

For our sector, this year started on a technical note: At the beginning of February 2017, the European Fireplaces Association (EFA) invited members to the Upper Bavarian town of Maisach near Fürstenfeldbruck for a meeting. Thus the organisation continues its tradition of discussing the main issues in the areas of development, standardisation and legislation at the beginning of each year.

The topics of the first meeting of the year included reforms in construction law, changes to the draft ordinance for the use of heating appliances and issues surrounding market supervision. Once again, the issue of multiple functionality of pellet and gas fireplaces was discussed, as were developments in standardisation work, particularly in Technical Committee (TC) 295.

The Association chairman, Uwe Striegler, was satisfied with the meeting: “We have achieved our aim: At the beginning of the year, we’d like to take a pan-European look at technical developments and, in particular, processes in standardisation – to ensure that our members retain an overview of this complex field.”

Striegler is sure that some of the discussions will be continued at the EFA’s spring meeting on 27 and 28 April 2017 in Hamburg. The chairman reminded us once again that, this year, both the specialist group conference on Thursday and the membership meeting on Friday will be open to guests. “This is the logical consequence of our Association’s intention to work openly and transparently,” claims Striegler. To this end, the EFA will also be represented in person at ISH in Frankfurt in the middle of March, and will be available to take questions.

Founded in 1996, EFA is the main European industry association for the fireplace industry and represents the interests of its members, who hail from the solid fuel fireplace, exhaust systems and fireplace accessory and component supplier industries.
Learn more online at www.efa-europe.com.

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