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    Is UL needed to make and sell Light Switch Plates?

    Well according to UL they only allow 5% inorganic pigments to keep from retesting RTI. At 10%, they said it could cost $30K to reconduct test for RTI properties of a altered recognized material and up to 18 months turnaround.
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    Is UL needed to make and sell Light Switch Plates?

    What if I simpyl make the product using a UL recognized plastic and then just state "made with UL recognized UL94 V-0, V-2 plastics." without actually having the final end product actually UL tested and UL Listed? Would that be sufficient for something that I doubt would really be unsafe...
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    Is UL needed to make and sell Light Switch Plates?

    Hi, I am getting conflicting information from people I've asked outside of this forum before discovering this forum so I hope someone here can answer this definitively. We are designing a new kind of plastic wall light switch plate. It's simply a plastic cover wallplate like the one in all...

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