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By Ultion. The Ultion lock has been fitted as standard for many years by The Glazerite UK Group, offering homeowners safe, secure doors that stop burglars entering their homes.The pressure for door manufacturers to enter the smart home market has been vast, with homeowners wanting the same convenience over opening their front door, as they have over much of their...
The folding restrictor from manufacturer Jackloc is the strongest on the market, according to managing director Eric Collins. Window restrictors are important in environments with children, vulnerable adults and patients in care, to prevent falls and to provide protection. With a good quality restrictor in place, these places can enjoy the benefits of having windows open, while staff can have...
Faster and easier installation of windows and doors means ditching fiddly plastic plugs and understanding why a hi-lo thread holds the key to success. Andy Holland, technical andmarketing manager at Rapierstar, explains why. Why should the design and quality of a frame fixing make any difference to how easy they are to use and the quality of the finished installation?...
Winlock Security’s managing director Alan Parker discusses the future of hardware, including emerging trends and their potential industry-wide impact. Mobile technology will continue to drive innovation in the home security sector. We’re already seeing more apps and electronic products with mobile interfaces for the tech savvy; with development being done in order to provide mobile-ready door and window locking systems....
Richard Gyde, managing director at Mila, explains why ethical sourcing matters more than ever in this industry. It’s obligatory now for every business with a global turnover of more than £36million to produce a slavery and human trafficking statement for each financial year. This has to show that you understand the very real risks and that you have taken steps...
By ERA. ERA’s Ukas-accredited testing laboratory plays an important role in the company’s new product development. It also offers an invaluable service to ERA customers developing their own new products. The facility demonstrated its credentials recently as part of a UK first for the fenestration industry that involved collaboration involving Veka UK and Modplan. The outcome of this collaboration between...
Nick Dutton, CEO of Brisant-Secure, looks at the market opportunities for smart products in the trade, locksmith and gadget sectors. With a five-star rating in Stuff Magazine, there’s also considerable opportunity in the smart-home market. With almost 4,000 ‘smart’ products on sale in the UK, it is no surprise that the UK has been proved to be the fastest-growing smart-home...
By Window Ware. Nothing brings fenestration brands and people together quite like FIT show. It’s the perfect place to showcase innovation, make new business connections and compare notes with other companies all operating in this ever-changing industry. Window Ware was out in force to support their brand partners, get the low-down on the latest developments in the door and window...
Fabricators have a lot on their plate – and sometimes, that means hardware gets overlooked. Caldwell MD Ken Wilson thinks that’s a mistake. Balances and friction stays aren’t flash. They’re not exciting. In fact, they’re extremely easy to overlook. But they’re important. As an industry, we’re understandably obsessed with the core window and door products. That makes total sense, because...
Hot on the heels of an exceptional FIT Show launch, Giovanni Laporta, inventor of the Smart Ready certification standard, talks about the different kinds of smart available to door manufacturers and installers. When you think about Smart, particularly when it comes to doors, you probably think about smart locks for entrance doors. More and more companies are offering a smart...
Andy Holland, technical and marketing manager at Rapierstar, explains how choosing the wrong type of fasteners for an enhanced security door or window could jeopardise success in PAS 24 testing. Long term innovation in door and window design and manufacture, coupled with relentless hardware development, has made an immense difference to the security levels of UK homes over the last...
Richard Gyde, managing director of Mila, explains why the market wants smart locks to generate profitable new business. Mila’s stand at the FIT Show was devoted to one single product: the new Avia secure smart lock from Mighton Products. We’ve just become the exclusive UK trade distributors of this Apple HomeKit compatible device, so the timing of the exhibition couldn’t...
Smart and connected technologies have the potential to transform our homes and our lives, but consumer uptake has been slower than expected. Emplas talks to Glass Times. Smart is a ‘disruptive’ technology. It allows us to do things that we couldn’t do before. It is making business and industry more efficient and, through a new generation of connected devices, our...
CEO Mark Bromley talks about how Avantis designed and manufactured Kubu lock to bring mass market smart locks for windows and doors into the glazing industry. Smart technology has been around for years, but the glazing industry has been slow to develop products for the mass market. Now, Avantis has launched Kubu, a product that integrates door and window locking...
Mike Derham, chairman of Mighton Products, talks about Child Safety Week, and how the Angel Ventlock system helps to dramatically reduce the number of accidents in the home involving young children, and open windows. Children. Curious, inquisitive, daring, and the light of our lives as parents. Their innocence beholds us to them, yet equally, brings myriads of potential danger. Our...
When touring UAP’s premises in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, there’s always one area of the business which fascinates visitors: the company’s locksmith department. Why? Because they have a training school where you can learn to pick a lock. The UAP locksmith department was formed around 10 years ago following the company’s development of locksmith tools. UAP CEO David Jennings soon spotted...
By Mark West, door and window laboratory manager, Element. With crime figures showing that burglary is on the rise, it is more essential than ever for manufacturers to demonstrate their commitment to preventing unwanted entry into a building. Designers and manufacturers face a fiercely competitive market and it’s fundamental that their products are proven to resist forced entry. To achieve...
Would you buy a TV that wasn’t HD ready? Giovanni Laporta believes that very soon homeowners won’t buy windows and doors that aren’t Smart Ready either, and has come up with an offer that fabricators shouldn’t be able to refuse. Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell met Giovanni to find out more. Smart Ready is a brand that has hit the...
One year on from the launch of its Regal Hardware range, Richard Bryant, Window Ware’s commercial director, explains how fabricators have responded to the range and the opportunity to have dual-purpose heritage hardware. This time last year, Window Ware launched an exclusive collection of heritage style window handles called Regal Hardware. Even in the early stages, the new range proved...
By Richard Gyde, managing director of Mila. Over the last year or so, there’s been a fairly dramatic shift in how the industry has come to view smart locks. They have quickly gone from niche to mainstream as both fabricators and installers have come to recognise that they now represent a very real profit opportunity. While homeowners were still broadly...