BWF Fire Door Alliance Membership

Membership of the BWF Fire Door Alliance is open to timber fire door manufacturers, licensed door processors, door blank manufacturers and manufacturers and/or suppliers of fire door assembly components, who hold or are working towards being third-party certified by Warringtonfire Testing & Certification Ltd trading as BM Trada Q Mark Scheme and Warringtonfire for the CERTIFIRE Scheme and IFC Certification Ltd.

You must be a fully paid member of the British Woodworking Federation to apply for membership of the Fire Door Alliance.

The manufacturer of a basic timber door finished to a condition which includes lippings and facings and which requires only a frame, hardware and intumescent materials. Additionally, the door may be manufactured with a glazed or other aperture(s) and may include manufacturing fire door frames to suit the doors and making up doorsets or doorkits.   In this instance a company must hold their own test evidence.

A joinery firm which takes specified certified doors from a PDM or from a blank manufacturer and conducts one or more of the following processes on the product:

• Sizing of blank
• Lipping of blank
• Application of cosmetic face
• Trimming of doors (where permitted by the certification)
• The cutting of aperture(s) for glazing, air transfer grilles, letterplates, etc.
• The glazing of apertures
• The manufacture of door frames with or without hardware

In this instance a company can cascade the test evidence of a scheme approved blank or that of a prime door manufacturer. A company may be both a Prime Door Manufacturer and Licensed Door Processor.

Please note: A company may be both a Prime Door Manufacturer and Licensed Door Processor.

(i) Certified Supplier – a company which has one or more fire door components, including hinges, door closers, locks & latches, panic hardware, glass, glazing systems, intumescent seals or smoke seals, certified in their own name by Exova Warrington Certification Ltd.

(ii) or a company which is a distributor for certified fire door components, including hinges, door closers, locks & latches, panic hardware, glass, glazing systems, intumescent seals or smoke seals which does not brand any fire door component in their own name.

(iii) or a company that provides materials used in the manufacture of BWF Certifire Timber Doors and Doorsets. These materials cannot, on their own be certified. (E.g. core material suppliers or timber supplier)

If you are an existing Member of the BWF Fire Door Alliance and have an enquiry, contact member of the team at firedoors@bwf.org.uk