Cobra

What Cobra does

Cobra Carpentry Ltd, trading as Cobra Fire Doors, is a UK-based passive fire protection specialist headquartered at 2E Penhill Road, Bexley. Founded in 2009, the company delivers four core services — fire door supply and installation, fire door inspections and surveys, fire door maintenance and repairs, and fire stopping — to landlords, building owners, and facilities managers across Kent, London, Sussex, and the broader South East of England. Cobra's products carry BM TRADA Q-Mark accreditation, and the firm holds CHAS, Fire Protection Association, and Institute of Fire Safety Managers credentials that qualify it for tendered commercial and institutional work.

The company's revenue model is project-based professional services plus ongoing maintenance contracts, with quote-based pricing and free, no-obligation quotes offered to prospective clients. Its go-to-market is sales-led and direct, supported by a content-marketing layer (blog articles on UK fire safety regulation, passive fire protection, and fire door faults) and customer testimonials from named clients. Cobra pursues a hybrid segmentation targeting building owners and landlords as primary personas and property managers and facilities managers as secondary personas, with project work spanning commercial real estate (Landsec, The Crown Estate), construction (Mace, ISG), arts and culture (Royal Opera House), automotive and technology (McLaren), and energy and technology (BP/Castrol).

Cobra operates from a single Bexley location and appears to be a privately held, founder- or management-owned limited company with no disclosed institutional investors, parent entities, subsidiaries, or funding rounds. Growth signals are limited to incremental geographic widening across the South East and an Elecro London partnership that embeds Cobra within broader building services delivery; the firm has no disclosed AI, software, or platform product surface.

Name

Cobra

Legal name

Cobra Carpentry Ltd

Website

https://cobracompany.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cobra Carpentry Ltd (trading as Cobra Fire Doors) is a Bexley-based, UK-accredited passive fire protection specialist delivering fire door supply, installation, inspection, maintenance, and fire stopping services to landlords, building owners, and facilities managers across the South East of England.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fire Protection Services

akta.pro primary industry

Fire & Smoke Dampers / Firestopping / Passive Fire Protection Services (BPABAHAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Fire Door, Firestop & Passive Fire Protection Inspection/Installation (IMAIAJAJ), Smoke Control, Fire Doors & Egress Door Hardware Inspection Services (BPABAHAG)

Keywords

• Fire protection services
• Passive fire protection
• Fire door installation
• Fire door maintenance
• Fire stopping solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Bexley

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Fire Protection Services: Cobra generates revenue through providing comprehensive fire protection services including fire door supply and installation, fire door inspections and surveys, fire door maintenance and repairs, and fire stopping solutions. Revenue is derived from project-based work and ongoing maintenance contracts with property owners and managers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cobra delivers passive fire protection services for residential and commercial properties, including fire door supply and installation, fire door inspections and surveys, fire door maintenance and repairs, and fire stopping solutions. The company serves building owners, landlords, facilities managers, and property managers across Kent, London, Sussex, and the wider South East of England, and all products carry BM TRADA Q-Mark accreditation.

Product overview

Cobra offers a suite of fire protection services comprising four core offerings: Fire Door Supply & Installation (providing full fire door installation), Fire Door Inspections/Surveys (comprehensive compliance assessments), Fire Door Maintenance (repairs and upkeep ensuring compliance), and Fire Stopping (fire and smoke containment solutions). These services serve residential and commercial properties across Kent, London, Sussex and the South East, supporting landlords, building owners, and facilities managers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fire Door Supply & Installation

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Elecro LondoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCobra partnered with Elecro London to deliver comprehensive fire safety solutions for the Northern and Shell building in the City of London. This is an ongoing partnership where Cobra provides fire protection services as part of Elecro London's building services operations.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Assa Abloy (UK): Global door hardware and access solutions group — including fire-rated door components and Q-Mark-accredited doorsets. Functions as both an upstream supplier and a potential integrator/competitor in fire door installation and maintenance.
• Kiwa UK (formerly BBA / Kiwa CMT): UKAS-accredited certification body running fire protection product certification and installer schemes. Issues industry accreditations (similar to BM TRADA Q-Mark) and competes with Cobra indirectly via third-party certification services.

Direct peers

• Jensen Hughes: Pure-play fire, security and risk engineering consultancy with deep UK presence in fire door inspections, passive fire protection surveys, and code consulting. Closest specialty competitor to Cobra in the inspection and remediation workflow.
• Checkmate Fire Solutions: UK-based passive fire protection and fire door contractor offering a comparable suite of installation, inspection, maintenance and fire stopping services. Closest like-for-like SME competitor in the same product/market category.
• Murray East Fire Protection: Regional UK passive fire protection contractor offering fire door installation, fire stopping and compartmentation services to commercial and residential landlords. Same operating model, same UK regulatory backdrop and same target personas.
• Fire Design Solutions: UK passive fire protection specialist providing fire stopping, fire doors, and compartmentation surveys to commercial property clients. Direct competitor for the same landlord and facilities manager segment Cobra targets.

Broad incumbents

• Intertek: Global TIC operator with UK-based building safety and fire protection services, including fire door inspection and certification. Same enterprise sales motion into property owners, FM companies and developers as Cobra.
• SGS: One of the world's largest TIC groups, with significant UK operations in building fire safety compliance, fire door inspections and passive fire protection. A national-level incumbent bidding into the same landlords and FM contracts as Cobra.
• Bureau Veritas: Global testing, inspection and certification (TIC) major that runs dedicated fire safety / building compliance services across the UK. Overlaps directly with Cobra's fire door inspection and fire stopping work but operates across a vastly broader portfolio (marine, commodities, ESG) and at national scale.
• Element Materials Technology (Warringtonfire / BM TRADA): Acquired Warringtonfire and BM TRADA — the latter being the body that issues Cobra's Q-Mark accreditation. Runs large-scale fire testing, inspection, and certification services across the UK, including fire door schemes that compete with Cobra on inspections and remediation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cobra-fire-doors

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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