Certification of wood industry products
We carry out certification of wood industry products, we are a unit accredited by the Polish Centre for Accreditation (certificate No. AC 098).
We offer our customers comprehensive services in:
- certification of products of the wood and furniture industry for compliance with the requirements of national standards, European standards and technical approvals (covered by accreditation),
- certification of composite wood products for compliance of formaldehyde emissions with US EPA and CARB requirements,
- certification of wood industry products – solid biofuels (e.g., pellets, briquettes) for compliance with the requirements of national and European standards,
- participation in conformity assessment and verification of constancy of performance of construction products.
Check out the offer of certification of wood industry products
- Certification of composite wood products for formaldehyde emission compliance with United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) requirements
Documents to download (in Polish):
The certification is based on Ordinance No. 93120 – 93120.12 Title 17: ‘Final version of the Ordinance – ways to control toxic substances in the air used to reduce formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products’.
We have this type of certification in our scope of accreditation with the PCA. Certification is carried out according to the ‘Programme for the certification of composite wood products for compliance of formaldehyde emissions with CARB requirements’.
Products certified for formaldehyde emission compliance:
- hardwood plywood (HWPW),
- particle boards (PB),
- dry formed fibreboards (MDF, HDF).
Certification is carried out according to scheme 3 in accordance with Table 1 of PN-EN ISO/IEC 17067:2014-01 Conformity assessment. Basis for product certification and guidelines for product certification schemes.
The elements of this system are:
- Sample selection and/or collection;
- Determination of properties, if applicable, by laboratory test;
- Evaluation [as defined in EN ISO/IEC 17000:2006];
- Certification decision (granting, maintaining, extending, suspending, withdrawing certification);
- Authorisation (granting, maintaining, extending, suspending, withdrawing the right to use certification marks);
- Supervision includes:
- periodic control testing of samples taken at the Supplier’s site and evaluation of their results,
- control assessment of the Supplier’s laboratory work,
- verification of competence and control of laboratory staff at the Supplier’s site,
- control evaluation of the production process (technical and organisational conditions).
For other information, see CARB Certification Program (in Polish).
Documents to download (in Polish):
as part of it we carry out:
- certification of constancy of product performance – system 1
certification of conformity of factory production control – system 2+
- certification of constancy of product performance – system 1
We participate in the assessment and verification of constancy of performance of construction products, as part of which we perform:
certification of constancy of product performance – system 1,
certification of conformity of factory production control – system 2+.
The products subject to assessment are:
- wood-based panels
- wall coverings,
- wood flooring,
- structural timber,
- glued laminated timber.
The elements to be assessed are:
in system 1:
determination of product type,
initial inspection of the production plant and factory production control (FPC),
continuous supervision, assessment and evaluation of FPC.
in system 2+:
initial inspection of the production plant and FPC,
continuous supervision, assessment and evaluation of FPC.
Procedure for certification processes of construction products:
| Stage of the certification process | System |
| 1. Submission of an application with the required documentation | 1 i 2+ |
| 2. Review of the application | 1 i 2+ |
| 3. Registration of the application | 1 i 2+ |
| 4. Signature of certification and supervision contract | 1 i 2+ |
| 5. Determination of type (execution/assessment) | 1 |
| 6. Preparation of inspection/appointment of inspection team | 1 i 2+ |
| 7. Review of the documentation of the FPC system | 1 i 2+ |
| 8. Inspection of the plant and FPC | 1 i 2+ |
| 9. Summary of the results of the certification process (analysis of the documents collected) | 1 i 2+ |
| 10. Decision in the certification process | 1 i 2+ |
| 11. Planned supervision: – inspection of FPC – evaluation and assessment of the results of product testing and FPC inspection | 2+ 1 |
| 12. Decisions in supervision processes | 1 i 2+ |
| 13. Issue of a certificate validity statement | 1 i 2+ |
For other information, see Certification program_WB (in Polish)
We carry out certification of domestic and imported wood industry products and furniture in terms of:
- voluntary certification for conformity with the requirements of national, European, international standards and other documents (e.g. technical approvals).
Products certified to comply with the above requirements are:
- furniture,
wood-based panels,
laminate flooring,
wood flooring,
veneered particle boards,
solid biofuels.
Certification system
Certification is carried out according to scheme 3 contained in PN-EN ISO/IEC 17067:2014-01.
The elements of this system are:
- Selection (collection of samples);
- Determination of properties, if applicable, by testing;
- Assessment of technical and organisational conditions at the manufacturer;
- Evaluation [as defined in PN-EN ISO/IEC 17000:2006];
- Certification decision;
- Granting the right to use certificates or trademarks;
- Supervision includes:
- testing of samples from the factory or, in the case of furniture, a control involving visual inspection of the product at the factory and evaluation to determine the need for possible repetition of product testing,
- assessment of technical and organizational conditions at the manufacturer.
Algorithm for proceeding with the certification process[see here] (in Polish)
Other information about the certification process is included in the Certification program – M (in Polish)
+ certification of wood industry products – solid biofuels (e.g. pellets, briquettes) for compliance with the requirements of national and European standards
Documents to download (in Polish):
Certification processes are conducted in accordance with the requirements of the following documents (drop-down list)
- Act of 15 April 2011 amending the Act on the conformity assessment system and certain other acts (Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland, 2011 No. 102 item 586);
- Act of 13 April 2016 on conformity assessment and market surveillance systems (Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland, 2016, item 524, as amended);
- Act of 16 April 2004 on construction products (Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland, 2004 No. 92, item 881, as amended);
- Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 laying down conditions for the placing on the market of construction products and repealing Council Directive 89/106/EEC (Official Journal of the EU L 88/5 of 4.4.2011);
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 157/2014 of 30 October 2013 on the conditions for making the declaration of performance of construction products available on the website (Official Journal of the EU L 52/1 of 21.2.2014);
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 574/2014 of 21 February 2014 amending Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the model to be used for drawing up the declaration of performance for construction products (OJ L 159/41, 28.5.2014);
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 568/2014 of 18 February 2014 amending Annex V to Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment and verification of constancy of performance of construction products (Official Journal of the EU L 157/76, 27.5.2014);
- PN-EN ISO/IEC 17000:2006 Conformity assessment — Vocabulary and general principles;
- PN-EN ISO/IEC 17065:2013-03 Conformity assessment — Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services;
- PN-EN ISO/IEC 17067:2014-01 Conformity assessment — Fundamentals of product certification and guidelines for product certification schemes;
- PN-EN ISO/IEC 17020:2012 Conformity assessment —
Requirements for the operation of various types of bodies performing inspection; - PN-EN ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015-09 Conformity assessment — Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems — Part 1: Requirements;
- PN-EN ISO/IEC 17030:2009 Conformity assessment — General requirements for third-party marks of conformity;
- PN-EN ISO 9000:2015-10 Quality management systems — Fundamentals and vocabulary;
- PN-EN ISO 9001:2015-10 Quality management systems — Requirements.
Our expert:
Henryk Słomiński
Phone: +48 693 091 375
Łukasiewicz Research Network – Poznań Institute of Technology, 1 Winiarska Street, 60-654 Poznań, Poland
