Engineering360: "Certification Program for Pump Industry Professionals"

One needs to be careful about "certifications" these days, - whilst they may begin as an attempt to remove small end players, (who in their struggle to survive may offer lower prices, - actually not a bad thing from the consumers side) they seem to move quickly to become yet another Tax on that industry.

Once the word "certification" or one of it's similiar words is known, there seems to be some inexorable process whereby a parasitic class of bureaucrats are drawn to the situation, and soon after there become a series of Fees, or Fee increases, then followed up by yet more restrictive regulations based on fear, - real or imaginary, often preventing new ideas and products to come into being, but whether that or not, always accompanied by Fee increases.

The producers, traders and consumers all lose as that whole class of products becomes more expensive, with less solutions, and less folk can afford them.

Better that each company in the field does the best it can, addresses any fears, provides good products with good back-up, - that comany should be chosen by the consumer, on it's earned reputation, not forced by some wortheless parasite, that may have been bribed... Cheers, Geoff Thomas.