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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...
After a recent visit to Manchester-based UAP, Glass Times explores the company’s efforts to reduce its environmental footprint and become grid neutral. For almost 20 years, David Jennings, CEO of UAP, has considered the environmental impact of his company. Often treated as a ‘softer’ element in business, David and his management team recognise the wider benefits of being environmentally-aware. “As...
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell recently visited Manchester-based UAP to see how recent investments are paving the way for a bold new future for the company. UAP started life in 1996 as Universal Imports, importing door knockers. From these humble beginnings grew UAP, which today is a leading UK supplier and distributor of decorative door hardware and specialist locksmith tools...
By Toby Staff, managing director of Newstar Door Controls. Despite The Department of Health, Estate and Facilities Alert EFA/2013/002 being more than five years old, we still see specifications for window restrictors coming through with nothing more than the BS Standard. BS EN 13126-5:2011, the test for window restrictors, was singled out as inadequate by DoH for two issues. Firstly,...
The entrance to a building gives a clear statement of a company’s image, which is why choosing the right access solution is so important. Lee Chandler, product marketing manager at Dormakaba, discusses recent innovations within the access solution market and explains the factors that should be considered during the specification process. The market is now full of innovative and advanced...
After a recent visit to Manchester-based UAP, Glass Times explores the company’s efforts to reduce its environmental footprint and become grid neutral. For almost 20 years, David Jennings, CEO of UAP, has considered the environmental impact of his company. Often treated as a ‘softer’ element in business, David and his management team recognise the wider benefits of being environmentally-aware. “As...
Pat Rice, commercial director for UAP, explains why the hardware specialist is engaging with customers to educate and advise on choosing the right door hardware to satisfy fire safety requirements, and how it is supporting door manufacturers in testing fire doors. We can all appreciate that there are specific issues within the fire door industry, such as correct installation and...
John Mitchell, Carl F Groupco’s technical manager, provides an overview of automatic technology, smart systems, and emergency exit hardware. Locking technology has always been the backbone of the hardware range that we distribute and, as part of our catalogue of over 7,000 product lines, we cater for the door lock requirements of aluminium, composite, PVC and timber profiles. Included in...