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.

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.

A BWF Member who has opted to certify their doors through the BM TRADA Q-Mark Scheme.

(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)