Mike Rooney
With over 25 years of experience in the fire door industry, including more than a decade at Pilkington Glass, he has been at the forefront of fire door testing and development. During his tenure at Pilkington, he was involved in over 500 fire tests, collaborating with leading brands and some of the most respected testing laboratories in the field.
Since joining Deanta in 2015, he has spearheaded the advancement of the company’s fire door range, ensuring full compliance with EN standards for both 30-minute and 60-minute fire doors. Under his leadership, Deanta has carried out more than 120 fire tests to date, positioning the company as a market leader in fire door innovation and certification.
Deanta continues to invest heavily in rigorous testing to ensure comprehensive coverage of all hardware configurations and installation scenarios, delivering some of the most robust and reliable fire door solutions in Europe.
Padraig Coffey
Since joining Deanta, Padraig has played a key role in fire door testing and compliance, while also delivering CPD presentations to architects and engineers across Ireland. He remains a valuable technical resource, available to support professionals with any queries related to fire door performance and certification.
Deanta’s fire doors are backed by primary test evidence and documented through Field of Application (FOA) reports, ensuring clarity and confidence in real-world application. Our Classification Reports clearly define each door’s compliance, whether to EN or EI standards, and EXAP (Extended Application) reports are developed in accordance with our FOA data—providing robust, industry-recognised validation.
CPD training available onsite or online, accredited by the RIAI.
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Who Benefits from CERTIFIRE & QMARK
The end user most importantly, knowing the product you are purchasing is audited by the leading 3rd party schemes for the fire door industry, it also instills confidence to Architects and specifiers that the goods they choose will add value to the developers project managers and adds reassurance that what is being supplied has the backing of these schemes
The Benefits of DEANTA Certifire and Q mark
Credibility
With over 100 plus fire tests backing the validity of our fire doors since 2007 ensuring constant and consistent performance in the goods we manufacture and supply.
Safety
Both CERTIFIRE AND QMARK guarantees the highest standards in manufacturing, it is not legally required to have 3rd party certification but as a responsible manufacturer supplier we are looking to set standards in the industry and wish further suppliers would join these schemes.
Transparency
With over 100 tests backing up the FIRE DOORS we supply ensuring that all hardware and other components are tested to ensure they are tested to verify the integrity, just because hardware is Fire Tested does not mean it is compatible with fire doors to versify that you must test all of our test evidence is listed on our fire documents Certs, check that other companies offering fir doors have the evidence as a lot of companies do not.
Compliance
As we are constantly testing, we are updating our certification to ensure we are leaders in our marketplace, the testing is also ensuring the goods we manufactured are constantly tested to ensure the consistency. As a buyer you need to ensure the products exceed the standards you require, with over 100 plus tests to date on our EN Standard fire doors as opposed to a lot of companies with 1-2 tests on limited scope.
Reliability
By choosing companies who opt to use 3rd party schemes such as CERTIFIRE & Q MARK you are ensuing the highest standards and creditability, they offer constant auditing and companies who do not comply risk being delisted, Specifying these Schemes will ensure that only the premier suppliers will be allowed and ensuing the safety as fire doors are designed to save lives.
Be Certain Be Certified
What is involved in a 3rd Party Audit Certification
Consistency
The manufacturer has to show traceability on all the materials that are used in the manufacture and make up of the fire doors in Question the doors must be made from the same material from same suppliers as was tested day 1, All hardware and other elements must be only what there is test evidence for, A fire Hinge that has not been tested with the door leaf is not Certified only goods tested are covered by the Certification or FOA
Manufacturing
The process is audited to ensure no deviation in manufacturing is allowed and full calibration on all machinery ISO9001 management certification is adhered too at all times to ensure the products supplied are the same as what has been Certified. Should there be any inconsistency’s in the audit the sponsor will lose accreditation of either scheme and this will be published on website register.
Traceability
The person assembling or fitting the door must check that the certification supplied has test evidence for all elements, used in the door set, just because it may be listed it must have actual Fire test Evidence for the fire test conducted showing date test was conducted and by whom showing the results for Integrity and Insulation. Without out this evidence then you are not permitted to use these elements.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Fire Doors are designed to save lives and their certification has to be taken very seriously, they are used in Public buildings like schools hospitals, Hotels and with the demand for housing they are extensively being used in Apartments and 3 story housing, Deanta is leading the market and setting standards in Fire Door safety with the most comprehensive testing and test evidence on the Irish market today
About EN 1634.1
Unlike BS standard EN is more difficult to pass and requires comprehensive testing covering all elements, unless its been tested it cannot be certified. With a far greater heat in testing and higher air pressure making the EN Standard a welcome standard. However many companies still claim elements with fire testing can be used with EN doors, this is totally untrue it requires successful testing to be in compliance.
Acoustics
All our fire doors are Acoustically tested and hold certification for up to 31dB,working closely with LORIENT acoustic systems to achieve the standard test evidence available upon request. We take our certification very seriously and DEANTA are the only company who Designs Manufactures and Certifies their own goods not relying on others to supply them with potentially substandard certified Fire Doors.
Installation
As a business we only deal with leading suppliers and door specialist who have many years in the Door Industry, Our technical documentation contains the complete fitting parameters and to ensure the correct presentation of fire doors following the test evidence and ensuring the doors are presented the same way as they have been tested .
Hardware / Locks & Hinges
EN1634.1 can only be achieved once the hardware has been tested, fire rated hardware is not compliant unless it has been tested, all test evidence for the hardware we cover is listed in our FOA, Classification reports and EXAPS where we list test number and dates along with results .Unless the test evidence is listed then listed hardware is not acceptable. All CERTIFIRE hardware is covered under our certification as being part of the 3rd party scheme. Each lock or hinge has to be tested so if you list 5 locks you must have 5 tests, one test will not cover, BS standard allowed you to test the most onerous and gave you coverage for smaller hardware EN Standard does not allow this and requires test evidence Hence the withdrawal of BS Standard in 2028
Hinges
Appropriate hinges are CE Marked hinges that have been tested on the doors, 3 hinges per door and DEANTA does not require Intumescent pads for doors under 2.4m, Doors over 2.4m require 4 hinges and Pads, The confidence in the doors we supply has allowed not to place pads in hinges and locks and we have tested successfully in all of our tests with no Pads.