Market access
Market access: what each destination requires
An export order is not lost on the product. It is lost at the port, on a certificate that did not exist before the goods shipped. These pages set out what each of our target markets actually requires — the standards that govern the unit, the certificate the customs officer checks, and the documents that have to be in the crate before it leaves.
Every figure on these pages traces to a published source, and where two published sources disagree the page says so rather than picking the convenient one. None of them claims a certificate this factory does not hold.
Philippines
- Wind load signed by a local engineer of record, not quoted by a supplier
- Published wind speeds disagree; the figure has to be tied to a site
- A rating is a tested pressure in pascals on a tested size, not a km/h figure
Malaysia
- MS 832:2022 and MS 1017:2022 listed in the fourth schedule of CIDB Act 520
- PPS certificate mandatory since 1 September 2023
- Enforcement runs to stop-work orders and fines of RM 10,000 to RM 500,000
Africa — pre-shipment verification
- Certificate issued in the country of origin, before shipment, or the port will not clear
- Kenya runs PVoC, Nigeria runs SONCAP, Ghana runs the GSA programme
- Test evidence has to come from an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory
Why this is written down at all
A window order fails at the border far more often than it fails in the factory. The unit is built, the crate is closed, and then the destination asks for a certificate that has to have been issued before shipment. There is no version of that problem that can be fixed on the water.
The three markets here were chosen because each one publishes its requirement clearly and because almost nobody in this trade writes about it in English. That combination is why a page like this ranks, and why a buyer who lands on it stays.
What these pages deliberately do not do is quote a performance figure we cannot source. Where a wind speed is contested between published sources, the page says it is contested. Where a certificate is held by the importer rather than the exporter, the page says so.
The commercial terms behind packing, delivery and documents are the same on every quotation and sit on commercial terms. Export packing and container loading are set out on the packing and loading page.