Luvipol achieves Q-Mark for full fire door range Leading door manufacturer Luvipol in Alicante, Spain has achieved the BM TRADA Q-Mark for all its fire doors, giving added reassurance to specifiers that they are choosing a product that will perform consistently to exacting standards. The family-owned company exports around 60% of its production and has been selling doors to the UK - its third-largest market - for more than 20 years. As Export Director Pablo Puig explained, however, 'There is some confusion in the market about what a fire test certificate means.

It provides evidence that the door tested will perform to a certain standard.

The Q-Mark goes far beyond a fire test, as it guarantees that every door we manufacture will perform as expected.' BM TRADA has operated the Q-Mark Timber Fire Door Scheme since 1981.

It is a third-party scheme, providing independent assurance to architects, specifiers, enforcing authorities and building owners that all doors sold under the scheme meet the specified technical and regulatory requirements.

BM TRADA Product Certification Manager Simon Beer said, 'Fire doors save lives and protect property and as such it is vital that they are manufactured, installed, specified and checked correctly.

Scheme members must, of course, have appropriate test evidence, but they must also demonstrate that the product is manufactured under strictly controlled conditions to the same high standard day after day, week after week'.

This, he added, is usually achieved through a factory production control (FPC) system complying with ISO 9001:2000.

'In addition, scheme members will undergo regular factory audits, while the long-term effectiveness of the FPC system is tested periodically by taking doors from standard production and subjecting them to audit fire testing'.