Door Industry Journal - Winter 2015

Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk 60 THE door industry journal winter 2015 garage doors Is it possible to manufacture your own Roller doors and still be CE marked? Steve Hudson from JD (UK) consults IFT Rosenheim, an independent testing house or ‘notified body’ and an industry expert – to find out more. There is a lot of talk in the Garage door industry about CE marking and what the requirements are, and rightly so as the CE mark demonstrates a door that has been manufactured and tested in accordance with the relevant standards. Many rumours are doing the rounds at the moment, which are creating a lot of ‘smoke’ by claiming that to be CE tested it will take months and cost in excess of £10,000 to achieve. In some cases this may be true, but in the case of manufacturing a roller garage door, it is not true, providing the manufacturer buys the roller door components from a ‘systems provider’ – basically a manufacturer that has already tested the components together. IFT Rosenheim is one of the leading test houses (notified bodies) in the world who have consulted with many companies to help them achieve CE accreditation. Backing up the above, we also spoke to a well known industry expert – who has consulted with many manufacturers and installers of both Garage and Industrial doors, and is unquestionably one of the leading sources of information regarding current rules, laws and regulations around the whole CE marking question, he commented: ‘In my professional opinion it is black or white, there is no grey area. ‘Some people and companies may tell you what they want you to hear, but if you follow the brief guide below it will ensure that manufacturers, their installers and the end user will have a product that conforms with CE regulations’. He went on to say: “The crux of the matter is to ensure that test evidence from a notified test laboratory is available to cover all the characteristics the manufacturer will be declaring on his Declaration of Performance under the Construction Products Regulation. Alutech has had all the components used to manufacture their doors tested together as a unit by their notified body, so no additional testing is required. However if your door manufacturer buys the guides and the lath from different sources then they would have to be tested independently”. Therefore, as long as you buy Alutech components (available from JD (UK) you are able to “cascade” the testing and do not have to burden yourself with the time and expense of organising the testing. All of the necessary certification and documentation for the component parts is available from JD (UK) to complete the CE requirements, just follow the simple guide below, 1. Collate and keep in a technical file relevant Alutech test documentation (77mm or 55mm lath) – this will be supplied by JD (UK) on demand. 2. If you are using the Deprat barrel system, this has also been tested – request the relevant documents from JD (UK) 3. Request a ‘Declaration of Incorporation’ from your motor and control supplier and your safety device supplier. 4. Establish a Factory Production Control System (FPC) which is a ‘traceable’ system of manufacturing – JD (UK) suggest using their ‘BOM’ sheet system that works out the cut sizes for all parts. 5. Give each door manufactured an individual reference number to allow it to be traced as necessary. 6. Create a Declaration of Performance (DoP) using the template provided by JD (UK), and retain it for viewing by Trading Standards, if ever needed. 7. Provide a CE label – using the template provided by JD (UK), recording the test results of the door. Stick label on door. 8. If you are supplying to the ‘Trade’ you need to supply a Declaration of Incorporation for them to retain – this tells them it is CE compliant. 9. Provide a Declaration of Conformity that the installer (be it yourself or a Trade customer) can complete and give to the end user.