On April 1, Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China (Standardization Administration) issued a notice that due to the CoviD-19 epidemic, the mandatory national standard GB 38448-2019 "Water Efficiency Limitations and Levels for Energy Efficiency of Intelligent Wurinware", which was originally scheduled to be implemented on July 1, 2020, was postponed to be formally implemented on January 1, 2021.
The outbreak made it difficult to implement the original plan
After the announcement, a number of intelligent toilet business representatives told "appliances" reporter, this is a good thing for enterprises. Kohler officials said that before the official implementation of the standards, companies need to test each type of products, and to update the product labels and instructions and other printed materials, but due to the impact of the epidemic, according to the original implementation plan, many companies did not have time.
Influenced by the outbreak of novel coronavirus, the overall development speed of the intelligent toilet industry slowed down in the first quarter of 2020. China Home Appliances Association survey shows that at present, due to the slow recovery of each link of the industrial chain, the progress of enterprises to return to work has been greatly affected, the production plan of intelligent toilet production enterprises generally moved back, the testing institutions have also postponed the completion of the relevant testing project report time; In addition, the production capacity of packaging, printing and other industries, which provide supporting services for manufacturing enterprises, is also significantly lower than normal.
It is estimated that the production, testing, packaging, printing and other links in the industrial chain have a delay period of 2 to 4 weeks, and the overall delay will be 2 to 3 months than the normal production situation after the mutual effect. Therefore, enterprises generally find it difficult to implement the mandatory national standard of "water efficiency limit value and grade of energy efficiency of intelligent toilets" on July 1.
