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Originally Posted by consultant

TUV is like BS in the UK, so NF must be the french version.

Martin has made a good point about meeting the customers request. Ultimately, you can wave approval certs around all you like, if it does not meet the customers requirements, they simply will not order.

Also, it is not unusual for countries to want products to meet their own standards, as well as EU ones, although I am not sure of the real legality of this, however, no one has ever challenged this (that I am aware).

Thanks, I guessed it was a BS-equivalent...but that just comes back to whether the customer will "put up with" non-metric screws on a machine that is better/faster/cheaper whatever.