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Quest has launched a new hardware and joinery catalogue covering all main product areas with 8825 products across 304 pages. Issue 4 covers 2018/19 is currently being distributed to all Quest customers, online requests, and will be available to pick up at the Buckingham and Bedford trade counters. The Quest catalogue features a wide range of product areas including: multipoint...
Kingfisher Windows is one of the first companies to launch the full Brisant Secure Sweet range as standard on all composite doors. Deborah Beeley, sales and marketing manager, said: “As soon as we saw the revolutionary curved design of the Sweet range, we knew we wanted to offer the full range to installers. From talking to customers, we know they’re...
Shutter Slide – PC Henderson’s new louvre hardware – will be launched at the Architect at Work event in Berlin on November 7 and 8. The company has put together a core product offering for external sliding louvre panels weighing up to 120kg. “With climates changing and an ever-increasing demand for environmental and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)...
Origin has chosen the Nemesis multi-point window locking system from Kenrick for its new aluminium window, the Origin Slimline Window. The Buckinghamshire-based manufacturer is now ramping up production of the new window and has doubled its latest order for Nemesis to meet demand. Built from high-grade aluminium. the Origin Slimline Window has been designed with an ultra-slim frame (65mm) to...
VBH has launched Serenity, a new suite of handles and finger pulls suitable for aluminium, timber and PVCU lift and slide doors. Part of VBH’s greenteQ range, Serenity is available in a wide choice of finishes, including polished or brushed stainless steel, PVD gold, satin chrome, window grey, black, anthracite grey and white. The Serenity handle is ideal for operating...
As one of the first companies in the UK to stock Sweet, Fab Frames now offers this range of door furniture on its composite doors available to its south west customers. Fab Frames has manufactured its own composite doors using a Solidor slab and Kömmerling PVCU door frame for over eight years, delivering around 80 doors every week to Cornwall,...
Sweet from Brisant Secure is now available to installers as an optional upgrade from Glazerite. With its curved and edgeless aesthetics, the Sweet range of handles, numerals, letterplates, escutcheons and knockers has been met with great acclaim since its recent launch, the company said. Its manufacturer-to-consumer warranty has also helped win the seal of approval from Wellingborough-based fabricator, Glazerite, as...
On October 1, 2018, an updated version of the PAS 24 standard, which covers enhanced security doorsets, came into effect. PAS 24:2016 is now mandatory for all new developments or refurbishment projects that wish to meet Secured by Design (SBD), and this includes the requirement for TS008 letterplates to be installed on all doorsets. What’s more, a recent advice note...
Winkhaus has opened the doors on its new multifunctional demo suite at its headquarters in Kettering, which combines a showroom with a meeting room. At one end a showroom displays a diverse range of Winkhaus locking systems, and the range of sectors the company operates in. The door locks on display range from standard multi-point locks, progressing to automatic and...
Window Ware achieved an otif of 98.11% in July, which was also its best sales month since 2014. Managing director Sam Nuckey attributes the company’s success to the introduction of some in-demand new products, a new PR and marketing strategy, plus a customer-centric sales approach. One such new product is the regal hardware collection of heritage window handles, stays and...
Composite and timber door manufacturers using locks with a high-level Euro profile cylinder position can now use a fully suited solution from greenteQ. The new cylinder pulls and circular escutcheons are available in six finishes. The cylinder pull shrouds the profile cylinder, providing a 20mm underhang so the user can pull the door open or closed. The underhang is ideal...
Spectus has introduced the Siegenia Titan AF tilt and turn gearing, suitable for use on both its Elite 70 tilt and turn and flush tilt and turn product ranges. The new gearing is available from stock in four variants: face fixed-standard, face fixed-PAS 24 security, concealed-standard, and concealed PAS 24 security. The gearing offers a reduction in stockholding for Spectus’s...
ERA has upgraded all of its decorative hardware options for vertical sliding windows so that they now feature the Fab&Fix Hardex finish in eight colours. This means that fabricators and installers will now be able to benefit from a full matching family of products for vertical sliding windows, which also co-ordinate with casement windows and doors. Backed by over five...
Coastal Group has launched a new straight sliding door system – HS Portal SCV Lift and Slide System – which it says not only makes manufacturing easier and quicker, but comes with a dedicated full technical support package. The company has incorporated hardware technology into the new system designed to reduce manufacturing time and deliver an enhanced life span. It was...
Since launching SmartSecure in 2016, Carl F Groupco has reported sales revenue increases of just under 90% year on year for its electronic door locking and access control brand. The company said that early adopters of its Smart technology include the fabrication market and housing associations who recognise benefits across different access control applications, the sophistication of the technology, and...
Kingfisher Windows has become one of the first installation companies in the UK to offer the Sweet door furniture range as standard. The Sweet range has achieved over 8,000 hours in a salt spray chamber, equivalent to 33 times more than the current 240-hour standard. This is backed up by a direct-to-consumer 10-year warranty, taking away any worries about ongoing...
Tradelink Window Solutions has chosen to use the Excalibur door lock from Kenrick for its ‘Homeguard’ branded PVCU doors. Kenrick and Tradelink worked together to finetune the lock before it was fully tested in-house at Tradelink to ensure that it comfortably achieved PAS 24 to meet Secured by Design. Jim Moody, managing director at Tradelink, said: “We had been working...
All three of Roseview’s Rose Collection windows now come equipped with Caldwell’s UL6 spring balances, which achieves AAMA Class 6 (the highest grade possible) in performance testing. Providing up to 80% assisted lift, the UL6 allows for smooth, quiet operation while greater spring tension stability along the length of the balance eliminates the ‘hop and drop’ issues that affect some...
PVCU windows and doors from Midlands based fabricator CentralRPL now offer enhanced security performance following Secured By Design approval across its entire product range. Gary Morton, MD of CentralRPL, said: “Incorporating the most demanding of standards, Secured By Design is the official UK Police flagship initiative combining the principles of designing out crime with physical security. Since the acquisition of...
Yale Door and Window Solutions has fully integrated the Trojan business and its products into its organisation, reinforcing its strategic residential offering in the UK market, the company said. Paul Atkinson, sales and commercial director for Yale Door and Window Solutions, said: “Following acquisition by Assa Abloy in 2016, I’m delighted that Trojan Hardware is now fully amalgamated into the...