Moscow, December 22. The Aluminium Association informs that be the order of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart) dated December 19, 2017 No. 2028-ST a national standard of the Russian Federation GOST R 58019-2017 ‘Wire rod made of aluminium alloys of grades 8176 and 8030. Specifications’ was approved.
The approved standard will allow to introduce changes to the Set of Rules 256.1325800.2016 ‘Electrical installations of residential and public buildings. Rules of design and installation’ in the near future. They will allow to extend the use of cable products with cores amde of aluminium alloys in electrical installations of residential and administrative buildings.
GOST R 58019-2017 has been developed by RUSAL ETC and the Aluminium Association on the basis of the specificationa previously approved by RUSAL ETC. The expert examination of the document was carried out in accordance with the procedure established by the laws by the Technical Committee for Standardisation TC 099 ‘Aluminium’, which resulted in the issue of a positive conclusion on the standard, and a motivated proposal was provided to Rosstandard to approve the document as a national standard of the Russian Federation.
The standard covers the wire rod made of aluminium alloys of grades 8176 and 8030, made by continuous casting and rolling or both continuous casting and rolling-pressing, designed for production of electrical wire. The document includes requirements to the diameter of the wire rod, its chemical composition, temporal and specific electrical resistance, and tension set.
‘The approval of the standard is a logical continuation of the recently removed ban on the use of aluminium alloy as a conductor of cable products in wiring of residential buildings; the signing of this document opens new horizons of application of aluminium alloys of grades 8176 and 8030 for production of electrical wiring. I am sure that these alloys will positively prove themselves and will be commercially successful’, the Chairman of the Aluminium Association Valentin Trishchenko said.