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Sam Nuckey, managing director of Window Ware, outlines the steps the company taking to keep staff safe at work, and gives her thoughts on how the sector has responded to the partial lifting of the lockdown. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of our brilliant team, Window Ware is officially open for business. It’s been a challenging few months,...
Nick Dutton, CEO of Brisant-Secure talks about the true definition of suited when it comes to door furniture ranges. There is also an underlying demand for better, as he goes on to highlight. Brisant-Secure offers a suited hardware system alongside our high security lock, Ultion. When Ultion, the three-star plus, Sold Secure Diamond lock, is fitted with a suited Lock...
Mila’s finance director James Kiernan offers some guidance on one of the biggest concerns following lockdown: finances. The main thing for customers at this stage is to make sure that they have accessed all of the government support available, from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to business interruption loans and business rate relief grants. These can preserve much-needed working capital...
Eric Collins of Jackloc explains how window restrictors are faring in the current situation. Luckily the team at Jackloc are well at present and safe at home, although we have placed some of our team on furlough leave due to a number of our markets closing under government guidelines. We have set up a WhatsApp group to keep everyone engaged...
By Andy Holland, technical and marketing manager at Rapierstar. Designing and manufacturing fit-for-purpose fasteners that deliver on their promise is a complicated business; from a fastener’s pull-out strength and driveability to its corrosion resistance and structural strength, its design has to tick multiple boxes in terms of performance, otherwise it could be the cause of a door or window failure,...
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell visited Maco’s head office in Sittingbourne to discover why the company is investing heavily in its UK operations. Maco celebrates its 20-year anniversary in its Sittingbourne-based site this year, which underpins a solid commitment to the UK by the family-owned firm. While Maco boasts a manufacturing heritage that goes back to 1947, when its first...
By Sarah Gyde, marketing director at Mila. When it comes to marketing in our industry, I would argue that nothing beats getting hands-on with our products; fundamentally, most of us are selling ‘stuff’ which customers want to be able to see and feel for themselves before they part with their hard-earned money. Whether that’s trade, retail or commercial customers, even...
By Toby Staff, managing director of Newstar Door Controls. As a supplier of widow restrictors, I always check out what’s been installed wherever I am. So, you can imagine my shock when I stayed in a hotel run by a large hotel group in Torquay over the summer to see a standard plug chain, washer and screw fitted as a...
Paul Atkinson, sales and commercial director for Yale, discusses how enhanced security guarantees, new security product developments, and household brands offer an often untapped competitive advantage to the retail salesperson. As we enter the winter months, opportunist thieves ramp up activity, according to the crime statistics. This may be attributed to the earlier onset of nighttime with the darker evenings...
Simon Monks, managing director of VBH (GB), says should the worst happen, homeowners want to feel protected by a guarantee that does what it says on the tin. Crime figures are regularly disputed, but one thing that can’t be disputed is the effect on victims; burglary has a much bigger impact than just the financial value of any items taken....
It’s that time of year when the home security message is hammered hard by hardware and security experts. With good reason, says UAP. Last October, ahead of daylight-saving time coming to an end, Co-op Insurance reported home theft claims increase by over a third (34%) in winter months, with Friday the day most likely for theft to occur. According to...
Yale is about to launch a new smart lock in the UK with no levers, and is at an advanced stage of development with sensors in regular hardware for windows and doors. Paul Atkinson, sales and commercial director at Yale, explains that since £10.8 billion will be spent on smart home devices in 2019 in the UK, now is an...
Giovanni Laporta, inventor of the Smart Ready certification standard, explains why smart has to be simple to appeal to the masses, and how to tell the difference between the smart products that are gimmicks and the smart products that are here to stay. As the window and door sector gets more serious about smart, with more companies offering up solutions,...
By Sarah Gyde, marketing director at Mila. Mila announced at the FIT Show that we had become the exclusive distributor of Mighton’s Avia smart lock into the UK trade market, and we are now supplying the product from stock. Long before smart windows and doors were voted as the ‘next big thing’ by 76% of those attending the Glazing Summit...
By Maco. Smart technology has captured the UK fenestration industry within the last 12 months. The rise in sensor technology has certainly increased with multiple offerings on the market and many more to come that can be integrated during fabrication or installed later by the property owner. However, should smart windows and doors be considered an integral part of a...
John McLoughlin, research and development manager at UAP, explains the thoughts and processes behind its latest product: an electronic smart locking system, launching under the Fullex brand in January 2020. We have seen an abundance of smart lock developments in recent months, many of which are based on the same type of idea. At UAP, we have been involved in...
From the Apple store-esque Smart Ready stand through to the multiple software as a service (SASS) providers that exhibited, FIT Show 2019 reflected a movement towards smart home technology and smarter manufacturing processes and systems. FIT Show event director, Nickie West comments on the growth of technology at the show. There is no denying the fact that FIT Show 2019...
Bhavik Dabasia, technical director at Everglade Windows, explains why being an Ultion Smart launch partner was so important. Smart technology: it’s literally everywhere. When you wake up in a morning and check your phone. When you see if the heating is on at home for when you get in from work. When you ask Alexa to play your favourite song...
Much has been said about the opportunities for fabricators and installers brought about by smartware. After all, it is estimated that this market will be worth £300 billion worldwide by 2020. But just what do these opportunities look like, and what should fabricators and installers be looking out for from smartware suppliers? Tania Tams, ERA’s head of marketing, sheds some...
By Carl F Groupco. When it comes to connections, hardware distributor Carl F Groupco has strong partner relations which form the backbone of the organisation. Relationships with leading manufacturers play a pivotal role in the company’s service commitment and the ongoing advancement of its comprehensive catalogue. “We are on the cusp of a major electronic evolution in the UK’s fenestration...