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Window Ware has added Axim hardware to its range. Window Ware customers can benefit from Axim’s products including EN 1154-compliant concealed overhead transom closers, secure flush bolts, fail-safe or fail-secure site configurable electric door releases, and BS EN 1125-compliant panic exit devices. Window Ware’s business development manager for commercial and aluminium Rich Fraser said: “Axim has developed a fantastic reputation over the last thirty years,...
Resista is a durable finish created by Hoppe to withstand frequent use associated with commercial buildings, without losing its distinct appearance. Developed with current interior design trends in mind, natural brass-coloured, copper-coloured, black and anthracite finishes have been added to the range. All colours are available in either a polished or satin effect, allowing specifiers to co-ordinate door and window...
A new device designed and manufactured by FSB allows doors with standard pull handles to be converted for hands-free operation, and help in the battle to reduce Covid-19 transmission. The FSB forearm shield for door pulls is fitted quickly to existing standard push/pull handles with four stainless-steel screws and threaded metal bushes. This enables external doors to be opened and...
Brisant-Secure has launched a trade Facebook page so its customers can share expertise and stories. “We’re always hearing customers tell us how they’ve used something we offer in a new way or with a new type of customer, or with a new message,” the company said in a release. “Sometimes, it’s just using marketing materials we have given them and love...
Titon has added a dynamic and fully interactive CGI environment – the Titon Product House – to its website, showcasing the products available throughout the company’s window and door hardware and ventilation systems divisions. To launch the Titon Product House, users need to visit www.titon.com and click on the option to ‘explore the Titon House’ in the main web banner....
Maco was due to present what it called “the next evolution of surface protection” at Fensterbau before it was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Silverlook Evo was described as “the new and exclusive surface hardware protection” with self-healing properties, or ‘tribologically sealed’. The new Evo surface protection has a self-lubricating surface that reduces friction and corrosion ensuring that the...
Yale has launched the Vertex range of decorative hardware for vertical sliding windows. Yale teamed up with vertical sliding and sash window specialists, for “months of intensive research and development”. The new range was designed to complement and maintain the traditional aesthetics seen on sash windows, a framework that is most commonly found in British period style homes. The range...
Maco was due to present what it called “the next evolution of surface protection” at Fensterbau before it was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Silverlook Evo was described as “the new and exclusive surface hardware protection” with self-healing properties, or ‘tribologically sealed’. The new Evo surface protection has a self-lubricating surface that reduces friction and corrosion ensuring that the...
In 2018, Brisant-Secure announced that one of their Sweet door handles had managed survive in a salt spray chamber for 8,056 hours, when the standard is only 240 hours. Twelve months on, and Brisant put a Sweet letterplate into the same accredited test chamber and waited. Even though the letterbox had not failed, it was taken out of the chamber...
IronmongeryDirect has launched a new click and collect service for its range of 18,000 in-stock products. Customers can order their products as usual from architectural ironmongery, seals, sealants and adhesives, as well as fire protection products, and select the click and collect option at the checkout. Orders will then be delivered to a convenient network of local pick-up points the...
Cubelock has published a new guide to window restrictors (available to download from www.cubelockrestrictor.com) in response to the Certass Best Practice Guide for Window Restrictors. “We know that there are still unnecessary deaths and injuries because window restrictors haven’t been installed or installed incorrectly,” Toby Staff, managing director of Cubelock manufacturers New Star Door Controls, said. “Every time I see...
Yale’s Postmaster Professional TS008 letterplate ticks all the boxes for meeting standards and fire door compliance, as the company explains. Yale understands that keeping up to date on the latest security standards can often be confusing. From fire door compliance to meeting PAS 24:2016, there are a number of factors to be considered. In the UK, current guidance states that...
A comprehensive audit of fastener usage by Rapierstar has delivered production, quality, stockholding and installation benefits for Vulcan Windows. These benefits have been realised following a Fastener Health Check conducted by Rapierstar earlier this year, which looks at a window and door manufacturer’s fastener use, how they are being applied, what the intended applications typically are, and the stockholding approach....
Slam shut locks are becoming increasingly popular on composite or wooden entrance doors where fixed pull handles, knobs or finger pulls are preferred to lever handles, VBH – supplier of a wide range of multi-point door locks, including Yale’s AutoEngage slam shut product – said. When the door leaf is closed (or slammed) into the frame, the automatic lock mechanism...
CWG Choices has declared its recent open day a success. Carly Graham, customer service manager, said it was “a brilliant way to launch the Kubu Equipped door lock to customers. It’s a simple product, with great benefits.” Kubu, by Avantis, is a mechanical lock with an electronic indicator that lets homeowners know whether their door is locked or unlocked, and...
Demand for flush products has risen significantly over the last few years, according to the latest figures from Google, with online searches increasing by more than 500%. The findings, compiled by Purplex Marketing, show that between 2017 and 2019, the average number of times ‘flush windows’ was googled has increased by 540%. There were on average 320,000 searches for ‘flush...
Endurance Doors has launched a new range of forged Fab & Fix hardware from ERA, in the form of pewter and forged black door furniture. These finishes and designs include monkey tail, regal and noble door handles, spire and bull ring door knockers, decorative door knob, and matching letter plates, all under the Fab & Fix brand with the patented...
The Roto FRH UNI outward opening reversible window system,which is Carl F Groupco’s biggest selling range,is now available as a consolidated set. The enhanced packaging initiative simplifies stock holding at Carl F Groupco’s distribution centres in Peterborough and Cumbernauld and supports the company’s objective of otif deliveries. The fabrication process is also improved as hinges are bundled into window sets...
Blairs PVCU, part of the Saveheat Group, has joined sister company Merlin Network in using StarPVCU fixings from Rapierstar, which are used throughout the manufacture of all Blairs PVCU windows, doors and conservatories. These are used in accordance with Rapierstar’s detailed guidance provided through its Kömmerling O70 Gold system recommended fixing manual (RFM). Joe Boyd, operations manager at Blairs PVCU...
The Yale Lockmaster AutoEngage multipoint lock is now be available in stainless steel as standard, resulting in advanced product durability, improved aesthetics and reduced carbon footprint, the company said. The Lockmaster AutoEngage is designed and tested to exceed the requirements of FD60, when tested as part of a doorset. The AutoEngage lock also features a new holdback snib to prevent...