The importance of colour
By Dean Bradley, Glazpart sales director.
To many, mass manufacturing may seem like a simplistic process of machinery, production and distribution, but one of the key considerations for any manufactured product is its flexibility to be available in different colours.
Colour choice is apparent in almost every product in everyday life, from clothing to interior decor, to cars and furniture and so on. In the window and door industry, homeowners have become even more discerning, usually looking for the perfect finish to their property whatever type of window or door is being installed.
In view of these diverse tastes, companies manufacturing and installing quality products need to make sure they have reliable and flexible suppliers that can deliver the right components with matching or complementary colours to complete the installation to a homeowners’ satisfaction.
With an increasingly competitive marketplace, combined with the consumer’s focus on aesthetics, Glazpart has planned meticulously to stay ahead of the competition by supplying components that meet our customer’s requirements when it comes to colours and finishes.
For the last ten years, we have consistently invested in state-of-the-art machinery, systems and tooling to provide a vast spectrum of colours and finishes of our award-winning Link Vent range.
As a result, we can supply all colours and/or decorative finishes of trickle vents for any type or material and window or door profile.
As demand increases due to the consumer choice of windows and doors and aligned with regulatory changes, Glazpart has led the way with the development and easy availability of trickle vents that come in more than just the most common colours (white and grey).
Some of the most popular colours in the Link Vent range include, Chartwell green, anthracite grey, redwood, black and cream. Link Vents can also be camouflaged on window profiles in over 40 moulded system house colours, with finishes that can also match embossed and woodgrain patterned foils. Our trickle vents can even be sprayed at source to match aluminium RAL colours.
Glazpart launched the innovative Link Vent in 2013 in sizes 2500 and 5000 EQA and since then, with the addition of the Link Vent 4000 (in 2022), the Link Vent with its vast array of colours, has become the leading ventilation solution for fabricators and installers to ensure compliance with Building Regulations, Approved Document F1 (means of ventilation).
Smart design, easy fitting and functionality are fundamentals but it is the huge choice of colours and decorative finishes that sets Glazpart apart from the competition.
Glazpart is an approved colour paint sprayer for many paint systems developed for application onto plastic. The spray systems are special coatings designed to paint PVC-U and other hard plastic such as ABS, polycarbonate and acrylic where the systems form a molecular cross bond with the plastic surface.
As well as standard RAL (European Colour Systems) and BS (British Standards) colours, Glazpart can also match to most other colour systems. In addition, the company has a specialist colour matching service that can match non-standard colours and supplied colour samples.
For homeowners, the benefits of Glazpart’s colours go beyond simple aesthetics but also durability. The colours are extremely stable and resistant to UV rays, so homeowners can be safe in the knowledge that the vents will hold their colour in extreme weather conditions and constant exposure to the elements of weather, without noticeable fading. Glazpart’s systems and products also do not contain lead, cadmium, zinc, formaldehyde or isocyanates so they are kinder to the environment and are recyclable.
Homeowners have become more particular when it comes to choosing windows and doors and the finished appearance is a huge factor. That is why we have consistently invested in modern machinery to offer the widest possible choice of colours and finishes for trickle vents.
