UKCA / CE Information
General advice and information regarding UKCA / CE
This resource has some handy links we have found and used when going through the UKCA/ CE process.
It is important to understand 3D Filament Warehouse are not in any way linked to UKCA or the government. Nothing we advise on this page can be used as a certified guide or taken as 100% accurate. It is simply the things that I found helpful when I had to go through this process personally. This is here in the hope it will save you the time I spent searching for information I personally could understand.
A fantastic resource to keep yourself up to date and discuss issues with people just like yourself. The community are fast to respond and give fantastic advice and the Admin of the page is skilled and knowledgeable. This is your number one place to go and follow on Facebook.
A great place for the best information and guides skilfully made by its creators. It has a specific guide for 3d printing community to take you right through the process.
This is the fastest and easiest route to get your UKCA certification by far. The owners have gone to great lengths to trawl through all the infinite dry and hard to understand government guidance, and managed to produce things that human beings can fairly easily get through. They provide everything you need from forms, to certification templates in a highly finished format.
They are understandably a paid resource as they have to cover the time they have put into the guides and they stay on top of anything new the government does translating it into something we mear mortals can understand.
If you want the very best, these are the people you need.
A useful resource for your CE and EN71-1 testing requirements which is fairly straight forward to follow. You do still need to research what certain items are within the tests and look around for this data. But for a free resource this is pretty exceptional and goes through all the steps you need. It does not delve into UKCA marking however, but the test you need to perform are the same as the UK really, adapting the EU CE test.
The government's own resource on this matter. If you are an android from the future (I say a min of 100 years) this is fantastic. For the rest of humans, quantum physics is easier to master.
In all seriousness it is worth spending a hour or two looking through it all to get a better general understanding, Perhaps you can make more sense of it than I did, then use other guides to drill into the way you physically do the testing.
We also sell STL for your small part/choke tube tester. We investigated the dimensions and cad designed this item to sub mm tolerances. This is far better than the paper versions that can bend and flex and affect the results and you will then have this useful tool forever for all your new products.
​For some idea of what your finished certificate will look like click here. This is our finished certificate for one of our items. It is used for hard toys that do not fall into the mechanical or small item category. Do not copy this as each type of toy requires different tests. It's just for you to see a finished example.
We stock LANDU PLA filament which has undergone testing and is EN71-3 compliant. This is for all basic PLA colours. This is part of the requirement if you are looking to obtain UKCA/ CE approval and produce regulatory compliant products. We can supply documents to confirm this once you have made a purchase if required.