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Qianchuan at the National Standard Preparation Work Meeting for "Wooden Doors and Windows"

　　On February 24, 2009, Luo Zhengren, Chairman of Qianchuan Wood Industry, participated as a representative of Sichuan enterprises in the wood door industry at the national standard drafting meeting for "Wood Doors and Windows" held in Chongqing. The meeting was managed by the Standardization Technical Committee for Building Products and Components of the Ministry of Construction, with the China Building Metal Structure Association and Beijing Building Timber General Factory as the main drafting units. After four years of effort, the plan to draft the national standard for "Wood Doors and Windows" was finally approved by the National Standardization Management Committee. This is good news for the industry.

　　Chairman Luo Zhengren (second from left in the front row)

　　With the development of China's economy and the wood door and window industry, formulating the national standard for "Wood Doors and Windows" has become an inevitable trend. For a long time, the wood door and window industry has relied on GBJ206-83 "Code for Construction and Acceptance of Timber Structures" to guide production and product inspection. This code has now been revised to GB50206 "Code for Quality Acceptance of Timber Structure Engineering," and the content related to "manufacture and installation of wood doors and windows" has been moved to GB50210 "Code for Quality Acceptance of Building Decoration and Renovation Engineering." However, the chapters related to wood doors and windows in GB50210 only cover part of the quality acceptance content.

　　Moreover, in the past, most of China's wood door and window products were used domestically. Now many enterprises' products have entered the international market. During the process of foreign designs entering China and Chinese products going global, domestic companies often cannot provide convincing product standards of their own. The technical requirements of foreign designers and scattered foreign enterprise standards often become the only basis for our product supply, putting door and window companies in a passive position. At the same time, the WB/T1024 "Wooden Doors" standard issued by the material management industry in 2006 has a very narrow scope, limited only to indoor wooden doors.

　　Currently, due to China's vast territory and many ethnic groups, people's language habits vary greatly. Wood doors and windows are traditional products in China, with very obvious characteristics of on-site production and use during long-term non-industrialized production. The wood door and window industry has many inconsistent terms and terminology, which is a very common phenomenon. Now, with high mobility of construction workers and expanding marketing scopes of wood door and window enterprises, the continuous emergence of new products and new processes, and the increasing number of new terms, coupled with many goods formed during product circulation, inconsistent terminology has become a prominent problem. This issue is also reflected to some extent in existing standards and product catalogs. We should take the opportunity of drafting the national standard for "Wood Doors and Windows" to standardize the relevant terms and terminology.

　　The "Wood Doors and Windows" standard is a unique product standard and an important part of China's building door and window standard system.

　　The "Wood Doors and Windows" standard must meet the development needs of wood doors and windows and also reflect the country's overall requirements for building doors and windows. In recent years, many basic standards related to "doors and windows" have been revised, such as a series of national standards related to doors and windows undertaken by the China Academy of Building Research. These standards apply equally to doors and windows made of steel, aluminum, plastic, wood, fiberglass, and other materials, serving as a common basis for drafting product standards for doors and windows of different materials.

　　Therefore, it is very necessary and urgent to develop a new "Wood Doors and Windows" standard that meets or approaches international standards, guides and protects industry development, regulates the market, directs production, and resolves disputes.