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Fired Up
DoorCo’s Firecore FD30S composite fire door range has been enhanced further with more glazing, hardware and smart options. Ian Glenister, the technical and sales manager, gives an update.
The UK fire door market has been under significant scrutiny for a number of years, however today, the market offers significant opportunities for the sector.
Renewed market confidence is being driven by stricter building safety regulations post-Grenfell resulting in housing associations, local authorities and new build developers actively specifying more composite fire doors. The key is to be in the stable, approved and ready to deliver bi-directionally tested, triple-certified doors that are compliant with BS EN 1634, are aesthetically pleasing with design options, side and top lights and glazing, that come from a strong supply chain that offers technical support.
Onboarding
That’s exactly how we’re positioning our commercial customers that are in the process of onboarding Firecore to their product portfolio. It’s a long process and there’s significant investment involved, not only in obtaining the third-party certification to meet fire, smoke and security regulations, but also to ensure all the training, experience, and knowledge of relevant fire safety regulations and standards are met. We’re supporting customers every step of the way of the process, starting, naturally, with the product.
Accreditations
With Firecore, we were determined to deliver a complete end-to-end, fully certified fire door solution that not only exceeds regulatory requirements but ensures complete peace of mind for the end user, and everyone in between.
Firecore is accredited to EN 1634-1 from both sides, achieving 47 minutes of fire resistance, fully Q Mark 170 scheme 3rd party accredited, with regular independent audits to ensure consistent quality and compliant with MHCLG Annex A recommendations, providing essential smoke and security resistance. It is also PAS 2024 security tested, incorporating a range of TS008-compliant hardware.
Locks
We’ve partnered with Winkhaus to incorporate its FD30 / FD60 FireFrame outerframe into the doorset, along with the Winkhaus AV2 auto-locking multi-point door lock with optional access control, which has been tested to resist security and fire including TS008 compliant letterplates, numerals, eye viewers, door knockers and security chains. This partnership means that Firecore is now part of the Winkhaus UK FireFrame doorset scheme.
2026
For 2026, we are expanding our range further to incorporate more product permutations. For example, the farmhouse door has been enhanced with more approved glazed options using our FLiP cassette. We’ve incorporated new hardware and door furniture options from Winkhaus to the collection. We’re also introducing the option of NFC tags for digital audit trails support, the golden thread of information which is a major compliance focus in the market.
Firecore E is proving to be an attractive proposition to the market. We have existing customers choosing to adopt Firecore for the high-quality specification and wide range, as well as new customers that have taken up the full one supplier offering and our broad range of products to get Firecore into their portfolio and openup more opportunities for their businesses.
Picture: FiRECORE Farmhouse White
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Article written by Ian Glenister
11th March 2026