Transport
Canada
Safety and Security
Transports
Canada
Sécurité et sûreté
Transport Dangerous
Goods Directorate
330 Sparks Street
Ottawa ON K1A 0N5
Direction générale du transport
des marchandises dangereuses
330, rue Sparks
Ottawa ON K1A 0N5
Equivalency Certificate
Certificate No.:
SU 9245 (Ren. 1)
Certificate Holder:
Faber Industrie SpA
Mode of Transport:
Road, Rail
Issue Date:
April 2, 2012
Expiry Date:
April 30, 2017
CONDITIONS
This Equivalency Certificate authorizes Faber Industrie SpA, to sell, offer for
sale, distribute, or deliver in Canada and authorizes any person to handle, offer
for transport, transport, or import into Canada, by road or railway vehicle, by
aircraft or by ship, cylinders, in a manner that does not comply with subsections
5.1(1) and (2), section 5.2, subparagraphs 5.10(1)(a)(i) and 5.10(1)(b)(i),
paragraph 5.10(1)(c), subparagraph 5.10(1)(d)(i), and subsection 5.10(2) of the
Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations, if:
Selection and Use
(a) subject to conditions (b) to (e), the requirements set forth in packing instruction
P200 of the “Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods” - Model
Regulations, Fifteenth Revised Edition, 2007, published by the United Nations
(UN), cited in the rest of this certificate as UN Recommendations, are complied
with;
(b) the cylinders do not contain:
(i) hydrogen, compressed,
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(ii) hydrogen sulphide,
(iii) natural gas, compressed, with high methane content,
(iv) carbon monoxide, compressed,
(v) gas mixtures containing:
(A) hydrogen sulphide or other free sulphide,
(B) hydrogen or natural gas,
(C) more than 10 percent carbon monoxide, or
(D) carbon monoxide and having a dew point of -47°C or higher at
atmospheric pressure,
(vi) any liquefied gas, or
(vii) any gas or gas mixture that could cause corrosion, stress corrosion
cracking, enhanced fatigue crack growth, or hydrogen embrittlement
of the cylinder steel;
(c) each cylinder is equipped with one or more pressure-relief devices in
accordance with National Standard of Canada CAN/CSA B340-02, “Selection
and Use of Cylinders, Spheres, Tubes, and Other Containers for the
Transportation of Dangerous Goods, Class 2”, October 2002, as amended
January 2004 and February 2005;
(d) each cylinder is evaluated for damage at time of filling in accordance with
International Standard ISO 24431:2006, Gas Cylinders – Cylinders for
compressed and liquefied gases (excluding acetylene) – Inspection at time of
filling. If any cylinder is damaged, the cylinder is not filled but is identified and
removed from service for corrective action;
(e) each cylinder is filled by personnel trained for that purpose and not without
the consent of the owner of the cylinder;
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Manufacture
(f) subject to conditions (g) to (o), the cylinders, including their closures, are in
compliance with the design, construction, inspection, and testing requirements
set forth in Chapter 6.2 of the UN Recommendations;
(g) each cylinder is designed, constructed, and initially inspected and tested in
accordance with:
(i) International Standard ISO 9809-1:1999, Gas cylinders – Refillable
seamless steel gas cylinders - Design, construction and testing - Part 1:
Quenched and tempered steel cylinders with tensile strength less than
1100 MPa, or
(ii) International Standard ISO 9809-2:2000, Gas cylinders – Refillable
seamless steel gas cylinders - Design, construction and testing - Part 2:
Quenched and tempered steel cylinders with tensile strength greater
than or equal to 1100 MPa,
except that the hydraulic test prescribed in Clause 11.2 of ISO 9809-1 and
ISO 9809-2 shall be performed in accordance with the applicable test
method specified in Compressed Gas Association (CGA) publication C-11996, Methods for Hydrostatic Testing of Compressed Gas Cylinders, and
the test system accuracy shall be verified in accordance with the applicable
method specified in CGA C-1”;
(h) each cylinder is constructed at Via Dell'Industria nº 23, XI Zona Industriale 33043 Cividale del Friuli (UD), Italy, in accordance with the specific procedures
and the drawings listed in Appendix A of this certificate;
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(i) each cylinder is produced by hot forging from solid billet or pressing from
a flat plate;
(j) the cylinders are inspected, tested, and approved by an inspection body
(independent inspector) registered by the Director, Regulatory Affairs Branch,
Transport Dangerous Goods Directorate, Transport Canada, in accordance with
Clause 25 of National Standard of Canada CAN/CSA B339-02, “Cylinders,
Spheres, and Tubes for the Transportation of Dangerous Goods, October 2002”,
as amended in November 2003 and February 2005, cited in the rest of this
certificate as CAN/CSA B339-02;
(k) subject to conditions (l) and (m) each approved cylinder is permanently and
legibly marked in accordance with section 6.2.2.7 of the UN Recommendations;
The following is an example of the markings applied to an approved cylinder,
¾-14NGT
5.8 MM
70.5 KG
I/FABER
50 L
ISO 9809-2
M8303
PW200
CAN
765432
PH300BAR
2007/12
(l) the letters “CAN” are marked on each cylinder identifying Canada as the country
of approval;
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(m) the manufacturer’s registered mark applied to each cylinder is “M8303”
or “FABER M8303;
(n) the certificate holder is registered by the Director in accordance with
Clause 25 of CAN/CSA B339-02 and operates a documented quality system
in accordance with section 6.2.2.5.3 of the UN Recommendations;
(o) design type approval records and certificates of compliance and test reports
are retained by the manufacturer and the inspection body (independent
inspector) for not less than 20 years;
Periodic Inspection and Testing (Requalification)
(p) subject to conditions (q) to (t), the cylinders are visually inspected and tested
in accordance with International Standard ISO 6406:2005, Periodic inspection
and testing of seamless steel gas cylinders, at the periodicity specified in
packing instruction P200 of the UN Recommendations, by a periodic inspection
and test body (requalification facility) registered with the Director pursuant to
Clause 25 of CAN/CSA B339-02;
(q) the periodic inspection and test body operates a quality system in
accordance with section 6.2.2.6.3 of the UN Recommendations;
(r) each cylinder that meets the periodic inspection and test requirements is
marked indicating:
(i) the letters “CAN”,
(ii) the registered mark of the periodic inspection and test body, and
(iii) the date of the periodic inspection and test, the year (two digits) followed
by the month (two digits) separated by a slash (i.e. "/"). Four digits may
be used to indicate the year;
(s) the marks specified in condition (r) appear consecutively in the sequence
given;
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(t) the periodic inspection and test body retains records of cylinder periodic
inspection and tests (both passed and failed) including the location of the test
facility, for not less than 15 years. The owner of the cylinder retains an identical
record until the next periodic inspection and test unless the cylinder is
permanently removed from service; and
(u) the shipping document that accompanies the dangerous goods includes the
following information:
“Equivalency Certificate No.: SU 9245”
Note: The issuance of this Equivalency Certificate in no way reduces the
certificate holder's responsibility to comply with any other requirements of
the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations not specifically
addressed in this certificate.
Signature of Issuing Authority
Original signed by
_____________________________
David Lamarche P. Eng., ing.
Chief
Permits and Approvals Division
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(The following is for information purposes only and is not part of this certificate.)
Contact Person:
Francesco Gorasso
Faber Industrie SpA
Cylinder Design Office
33043 Cividale del Friuli - Udine
Via Dell’Industria nº 23 – XI Zona Ind.
Telephone:
Facsimile:
E-mail:
++39 0432 706737
++39 0432 700332
francesco.gorasso@faber-italy.com
Explanatory Note
This Equivalency Certificate allows for the manufacture and use of pressure
receptacles (cylinders) based on the 15th Edition of the UN Recommendations
on the Transportation of Dangerous Goods - Model Regulations, published in
2007. Certain limitations as specified herein have been made to be consistent
with current North American industry practices. This certificate will no longer be
required once the applicable requirements become part of the Transportation of
Dangerous Goods Regulations through adoption by reference of CSA standards
B341 and B342.
Legend for Certificate Number
SH - Road, SR - Rail, SA - Air, SM - Marine
SU - More than one Mode of Transport
Ren. – Renewal
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Appendix A
Drawing Number
Standard
ISO2-229-465-950/B/RC/50/1
ISO1-176-300-900/R/AL
ISO1-229-300-890/B/RC/50/1
ISO 9809-2
ISO 9809-1
ISO 9809-1
Date File With Transport
Dangerous Goods
Directorate
15 February 2007
8 February 2012
8 February 2012
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