Safety

If you try it once, you'll be convinced Lighters

quality and safety fi rst Every day, 5 million BIC® lighters are purchased

around the world. BIC® is n°1 worldwide in branded pocket lighters. This success is due fi rst and foremost

to the quality and safety of the BIC® lighter, and for that, the Group goes all out.

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The person using it might have a hard and performance since 1972. All time imagining it, but a BIC® lighter has BIC® pocket lighters meet or exceed ISO 9994 been subject to more than 50 checks the International Safety Standard All BIC® pocket lighters meet before it goes to the market. All the ISO 9994 specifi cations. This standard or exceed the specifi cations

employees in a BIC® lighter plant sets the technical specifi cations that for the ISO 9994 international safety standard.

spend 25% of their time checking the the product must meet (maximum 1. Guard

quality of the product. “If not designed fl ame height, resistance to elevated 2.3.4. Sparkwheel: made of and manufactured correctly, a lighter temperature, fl ame extinction, etc.) in 2 cheeks and a sparkwheel. can present a danger since its purpose order to ensure that a lighter conforms 5. Hood

is to create a fl ame from a pressurized to basic safety criteria. 6.7. Fork: composed of a fork and a pusher

gas reservoir with a lighting system,” 8. Fork spring François Bich reminds us; he has BIC ALWAYS COMMITTED 9. Flint been head of operations for lighters TO SAFETY 10. Flint spring

since the category’s beginnings. While this safety standard has been a 11.12. Jet: composed of a jet and a globe seal

The Group has therefore developed requirement in Europe since March 11, 13.14.15. Valve: composed of unique processes and industrial tools 2008, some companies on the market a valve body, a membrane and integrating the latest technology, still don’t conform to it. BIC denounces a disk

which have allowed it to mass produce these abuses. Tests required by the 16. Body 17. Gas

lighters according to the highest European Commission showed that 18. Base standards in terms of quality, safety about three out of four models of 19. Ball

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