Accreditations

BBA certification

We are proud that our PVCu beads are in the select group of construction products tested and approved by the British Board of Agrément (BBA) and our PVCu movement joints are the only movement joints that the BBA have approved.

The BBA is the UK’s major authority offering approval of construction products, systems and installers. It confirms the exceptional quality and performance of our products. 

Agrément certificates are recognised throughout the UK construction industry as an impartial and unbiased assessment of a product’s performance. BBA certification demonstrates construction products’ fitness for purpose, application suitability and whether the product can help achieve regulatory compliance.

The BBA’s approval process examines the product when the certificate is granted through laboratory testing and throughout its lifetime by assessing the installed product performance across various applications. The manufacturing process is also scrutinised to verify continued output quality.

Sustainability

Renderplas PVCu beads offers the best environmental credentials in their market.

The ongoing drive to tackle our buildings’ embedded and operational carbon cost is supported by changes in Building Regulations. 

Render beading can influence the intended energy efficiency. Renderplas PVCu beads eliminate the cold bridges caused by alternative steel beads, helping to support healthier and more thermally efficient buildings.

Our beads are manufactured locally from recycled materials, keeping the distance covered within the supply chain to a minimum. Our white PVCu beading is made from 100% recycled materials. Across the full range of our colour variations, the recycled material content is 90% to 95%. This is the highest level of recycled material among UK beading manufacturers. 

Renderplas has taken the lead in providing Ecopoint calculations for our products to assist the specifier in lowering the carbon footprint of their building. In an independent environmental profile report, Renderplas PVCu beads achieved the top eco-rating available to beading products on the UK construction market with an “excellent” Ecopoint rating of just 0.004 per kg installed.

You can get a copy of the Ecopoint certificate along with any other documents you require from the downloads page.

REACH

The EU REACH regulation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals) came into law in the UK on 1^st January 2021. 

However, as the UK has left the European Union, this is now called UK REACH and applies to chemicals placed on the UK Market. EU REACH will still apply in Northern Ireland. From the 28^th October 2021, qualifying substances imported into the UK will require registration with the new UK REACH.

Renderplas PVCu beads are manufactured in the UK using PVCu materials also manufactured in the UK. This makes UK REACH compliance very straightforward and far simpler than imported products from countries such as China, for example.

Raw Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) is benign and non-hazardous if ingested; it does not contaminate water or the environment. To make it impact resistant and flexible, the material is unplasticised by adding a polymer modifier. These are used in minimal quantities in PVCu render beads.

The most commonly used modifier is Bis(2-ethyl-hexyl) phthalate, DEHP. This is on the list of “substances of very high concern” (SVHC) within the UK REACH legislation, and Renderplas does not and will not use this substance. 

We must communicate this information to everyone in the supply chain that handles our products, and we therefore provide a safety sheet to everyone that requires it. You can find this and any other documents you may need on our downloads page.