Certificates need samples. The programme does not.
Kinley states ISO 9001. Steora states CE. Until a production sample exists we cannot state a certificate number, and we will not imply one. What we can publish is the whole programme: eight standards, the clause each answers, the test house, the sample count, the cost and where it sits in the build sequence. The certificate column below is empty on purpose, and it fills in public.
8
Standards in the programme
Committed4
Packs complete before manufacture
Verified29.7k
GBP total programme cost
EstimatedEight lines, 29,750 GBP across the eight lines above, sequenced against sample availability.
Nothing here is aspirational. Each line is priced from a published rate card and scheduled against the first production frame, the enclosure tool or the first battery pack, whichever gates it.
| Standard | Scope | Clause | Test house | Samples | Cost | Sequence | Status | Certificate no. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BS EN 581-1 and 581-3 | Outdoor seating and table strength, durability and stability | 581-1 cl. 5 safety, 581-3 cl. 6 table stability and cl. 7 strength | UKAS furniture test house, Nottingham or Wrexham rate card | 2 production frames, one destructive | 3,900 GBP | First production frame, week 1 of sample availability | Scheduled | Not yet held |
| IEC 62109-1 and 62109-2 | Safety of the charge controller and power conversion assembly | 62109-1 cl. 7 protection against electric shock, cl. 13 components | Notified body electrical laboratory, UK | 2 conversion assemblies | 6,400 GBP | Runs in parallel with the frame test on the bench-top stack | Pack ready | Not yet held |
| BS EN 60529 to IP65 | Enclosure ingress for the battery bay, controller bay and socket faces | cl. 13.4 dust, cl. 14.2.5 water jet | Same electrical laboratory, ingress rig | 1 production enclosure set | 1,850 GBP | After the enclosure tool is signed off | Scheduled | Not yet held |
| UN 38.3 and IEC 62133-2 | Battery pack transport safety and cell-level safety | 38.3 T1 to T8, 62133-2 cl. 7 safety requirements | Battery test house via the pack integrator | 8 cells and 2 packs | 5,200 GBP | Ordered with the first production pack, eight-week lead | Scheduled | Not yet held |
| BS EN 62262 to IK08 | Impact resistance of enclosures and socket faces in the public realm | cl. 6 impact energy 5 J | UKAS mechanical laboratory | 3 faces | 1,100 GBP | With the ingress programme, same sample set | Scheduled | Not yet held |
| BS EN 1991-1-4 calculation | Canopy wind uplift and ballast, terrain category IV | cl. 7.3 canopy roofs, National Annex site factors | Chartered structural engineer sign-off, no laboratory required | Calculation pack only | 2,400 GBP | Complete now, independent of manufacture | Pack ready | Not yet held |
| UKCA and CE technical file | Conformity route for the powered assembly placed on the UK and EU market | Supply of Machinery Regs, EMC Regs 2016, RoHS, plus EU equivalents | Self-declaration on the notified-body test evidence above | Documentation | 1,600 GBP legal review | File assembled now, signed on receipt of the test reports | Pack ready | Not yet held |
| ISO 9001:2015 | Manufacturing quality management at the Manchester line | cl. 8.5 production control, cl. 8.7 nonconforming output | UKAS certification body, stage 1 and stage 2 audit | Procedures and records | 7,300 GBP first cycle | Gap analysis complete now, audit at three months of production records | Pack ready | Not yet held |
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Why the file looks like this, written so it can be argued with.
A conformity route is a set of decisions, and decisions can be wrong. These are ours, stated with the reasoning attached so an assessor can challenge the reasoning rather than guess at it.
The bench is a powered product, not a machine with moving parts
There is no hazardous motion, so the Machinery route is limited to the electrical and battery assembly. That keeps conformity inside EMC, RoHS, low voltage and battery transport rather than a full machinery file.
Nothing above 48 V DC leaves the enclosure
Array strings are kept under the low voltage threshold, and the public-facing outputs are 5 V and 20 V USB-C only. No 230 V socket appears in the public realm, which is also the insurer's condition.
Second-life modules are treated as components, not as certified product
Each reclaimed module is flash-tested at intake and recorded against a serial. The assembly is certified, the module is a graded component with a stated output floor. That is the same logic a reconditioned motor carries.
UKCA first, CE on the same evidence
The technical file is written once. UKCA is declared for the UK market and CE for the EU on the identical notified-body reports, which avoids a second test programme when we quote outside the UK.
Our own procedures, measured against the standard, findings published.
Publishing a gap analysis is unusual. It is also the only version of a gap analysis worth anything, because a private one can be quietly failed.
- Finding
- Drawings and revisions held in the design register, no formal issue control
- Corrective action
- Adopt a numbered issue sheet per drawing before the first production run
- Finding
- Moulder, pack integrator and module supplier not yet on an approved vendor list
- Corrective action
- Approved vendor list with re-approval on a twelve-month cycle
- Finding
- Module serial capture designed, not yet procedurally mandated
- Corrective action
- Serial and flash-test result recorded against bench build number, no exceptions
- Finding
- Field data will exist only once units are deployed
- Corrective action
- Fleet telemetry nominated as the cl. 9.1 evidence source, defined before deployment
- Finding
- No formal corrective action log
- Corrective action
- Log opened now, carrying the scale prototype test runs as its first entries
Where this sits
This matrix closes the certification row on the differentiation roadmap as far as it can be closed before a sample exists, and it answers the position set out on the competitor watch page.