BS ISO 2408:2017

This standard BS ISO 2408:2017 Steel wire ropes. Requirements is classified in these ICS categories:

• 77.140.65 Steel wire, wire ropes and link chains

This document specifies requirements for the manufacture, testing, acceptance, packing, marking and issuing of a certificate of quality of wire ropes. It is applicable to round strand ropes and compacted strand ropes made from wires ropes that are uncoated (bright), zinc-coated or Zn-Al coated.

It is not applicable to ropes for

• mining purposes,

• aircraft control,

• aerial ropeways and funiculars, and

• lifts.