Become a member

How to become a member of the DGM and benefit from the advantages of the "Golden M".

You are a furniture manufacturer and would like to benefit from the advantages of a membership in the Deutsche Gütegemeinschaft Möbel e.V. and use the RAL quality mark for your products? Here you will find all information on how to become a member and which requirements you have to fulfil.

  1. Application for membership and the use of the quality mark by signing the declaration of membership
  2. Specification of the furniture and furniture programmes that are to be awarded the quality mark
  3. Testing of this furniture and furniture programmes by neutral furniture testing institutes taking into account current test certificates
  4. Answering of the questions according to the  Leitfaden Ziff. 2.3.1 bis 2.3.14
  5. After all documents have been submitted, the Executive Committee decides on the recommendation of the Quality Committee on the admission of the applicant to the GermanFurniture Quality Association (preliminary decision).
  6. Notification of the decision to the applicant
  7. Issue of the certificate of membership of the Deutsche Gütegemeinschaft Möbel e.V.

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The path to DGM membership for supporting members

If you are not a furniture manufacturer, you can become a "supporting member" of the Deutsche Gütegemeinschaft Möbel e.V.. Here we show you the steps to membership for your company:

  1. Application for membership by signing the declaration of membership.
  2. Decision of the board about the admission
  3. Notification of the decision to the applicant
  4. Confirmation of membership by the office of the Deutsche Gütegemeinschaft Möbel

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