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Veka UK has launched a new specification guide providing manufacturers, installers and specifiers with comprehensive information on all the products within the Veka UK portfolio. The launch coincides with the global Veka Group’s 50th anniversary, and a new www.veka.co.uk website. Marketing director Dawn Stockell said: “The guide is over 100 pages and contains everything you need to know about all...
Epwin Window Systems has released a new 36-page brochure on its Stellar aluminium window and door system, for the commercial sector. Mark Austin, sales director (aluminium) at Epwin Window Systems, said: “Stellar was designed for retail and light commercial use and its intelligent design and superior aesthetics deliver a powerful competitive advantage. This brochure showcases the Stellar difference and equips...
Rehau’s Geneo range of fibre-reinforced windows has been named Product of the Year 2019 by specialist architecture publisher Callwey Architekturverlag. The judges were impressed with its use of sustainable materials to produce a window system with outstanding energy efficiency. The Geneo system was launched earlier this year and features the latest iteration of Rehau’s RAU-Fipro X material. The patented RAU-Fipro...
Dekko Window Systems has said its recent Residence Collection Open Day was a success. The Dekko team recently took over the Residence Collection showrooms in Gloucester to give installers in the area an informal introduction to the timber-effect range. The event generated a positive turnout from both local installers and home improvement companies, with considerable interest surrounding Residence², Residence 7...
Senior Architectural Systems has invested a £200K in its in-house powder-coating facility to improve the quality of its finishes, and to meet the increased demand for coloured aluminium fenestration products. The recently completed improvement works include the complete overhaul of the existing vertical paint line, which has been updated with the latest parts, lubrication systems, control panels and track. Combined...
The Aperture Group has announced several new product launches across its WarmCore range. Robin Baker, MD of the core Aperture business, said: “My intention when I joined the team was to look closely at our product offering, refine it where necessary but, most importantly, ask customers what they want and need, and then meet these needs. I’m delighted to announce...
Senior Architectural Systems has developed a new aluminium curtain wall system that allows architects to create sleek and expansive fenestration designs, all with the added reassurance of accommodating greater structural movement, the company has reported. The new SF62 aluminium curtain wall system has been developed for use on projects where structural movement may be a challenge, such as high-rise schemes...
Exlabesa Building Systems has launched its new website at www.exlabesa.co.uk. The new site offers an updated, modern format that attracts viewers’ attention, the company said. Paul Benn, general manager at Exlabesa, said: “Our new modern website has been designed to showcase our wide range of architectural aluminium windows, doors and facades and is both intuitive and easy to navigate. Visitors...
The Systemglas fire resistant, butt-jointed glazing system range from Promat UK has been expanded with new configurations and additional performance capabilities to meet the growing demand from architects and specifiers for assured fire protection across different glazing applications. The range’s four systems provide framing options in steel, timber and two that use the fire-resistant calcium silicate Promatect H to allow...
Aluplast will unveil new products developed specifically for the UK at Fensterbau Frontale 2020. These include: the newly launched premium Jet Black foil finish; Woodec premium woodgrain option; Ideal 70 and Ideal 4000, each now available in a grey core to compliment new foil options; the Aluplast flush casement; aluskin, its aluminium external cladding system; and the modular Lift-and-Slide door....
Quickslide now offers the Legacy VS window, which is based on Spectus Systems’ VS after researching the market for more than two years to find a window that could form the basis of “the finest replacement vertical sliding box sash window available on the market today”, according to chairman Adrian Barraclough. Quickslide said it has paid great attention to the...
Heritage Trade Frames switched to Optima when Profile 22 launched the system in 2016, and the Bolton-based trade fabricator has seen steady growth year-on-year ever since, the company has reported. Phillip Cresswell, sales and marketing manager at Heritage Trade Frames, said: “There’s no doubt that the system has helped us to achieve this consistent growth – it offers our customers...
Nolan uPVC has joined Deceuninck, saying the move will give customers improved service and product choice. Managing director Nolan Nicholas said: “We’ve built our 30-year reputation on putting the customer first. It was this drive to give customers the very best service and products that prompted our move to Deceuninck. “Deceuninck’s product range and 30 colourways from stock will give...
The Alumina range of bifolding doors, flush fit French doors and residential doors from Liniar is now even faster to fit, thanks to a fully matching optional PVCU bead. Alumina doors span up to 2.5m high, offering wide expanses of glass and slim sightlines in hundreds of warm touch foil finishes or three RAL powder-coated finishes, available on the interior...
Aluplast has said colournow accounts for more than 40% of its UK sales. The systems company said it was also investing to meet growing demand, with an expectation that foils and coloured finishes would make up more than half of its order book within the next 12months. To this end, Aluplast launched its ‘trueblack’ Jet Black finish, last month. This...
A louvre system that provides tilturn windows with fall protection and added ventilation has been launched by Kawneer. LouvreShield has been designed to suite with Kawneer’s AA720 and AA543 open-in windows. The system is surface mounted onto the outer frame of the window to allow free air movement into the room when the windows are operated in either the tilt...
Clearview Glaziers, one of the first fabricators to manufacture Stellar from Epwin Window Systems, has given the new aluminium system its endorsement. The company’s Robin Squibb said: “We have found the Stellar window and door system a breath of fresh air to fabricate. It seems like aluminium windows should have always been this way. No horrible adapters everywhere, just clean,...
CDW Systems will now manufacture fullyfabricated Crown and Dualframe door sets, following the recent withdrawal of Sapa,Technal’s kit products. CDW will now offer customers Dualframe and Crown residential doors, Crown sliding folding doors, and Crown patio doors, all manufactured from bar-length aluminium. The company said the move was designed to end the uncertainty for installers, ensuring the continued supply of...
Veka UK has designed and built a new website, which “really belongs to customers”. Marketing director Dawn Stockell, said: “Using visitor data from our old site and drawing from digital best practice learnings, we developed a site that is easy to navigate, supports an array of visitor types and is able to answer their questions and provide all relevant information....
Stellar, the new aluminium window and door system from Epwin Window Systems is 20% faster to fabricate, the company has said. Paul Booth, design director aluminium products, Epwin Group, said: “There are all kinds of operation efficiencies fabricators can look at to speed up fabrication times and help reduce material costs. But Stellar has been designed to be faster to...