ALUMINIUM Extra
Focusing on Aluminium with New Products
With aluminium windows and doors becoming increasingly popular, Glazpart( the leading glazing component manufacturer) has expanded its trickle vent range to fabricators manufacturing aluminium windows and doors
At FIT Show 2025, Glazpart launched two new ventilation solutions for the aluminium market with the Bi-fold Vent and the Modular Vent. At the event, Glazpart also gave visitors a sneak preview of their new“ Aluminium Vent” which will be due for full launch later in the year.
In recent years, both commercial and domestic markets have seen an increase in demand for aluminium windows and doors. As such, more PVCu fabricators now offer aluminium window and door options especially in the high value bi-fold and patio doors categories.
In keeping with the growing trends, particularly in aluminium bi-fold doors, Glazpart’ s new bi-fold door trickle vent simply called the“ Bi-fold Vent” offers the ideal ventilation solution for the bi-fold door market.
Manufactured specifically for aluminium bi-fold doors the Bi-fold Vent has a shallow height that is designed to work within the low hinge stack heights when the doors in a bi-fold system are in the open position.
The product is designed to fit onto the door leaf profile above the IGU( Insulating Glass Unit), which removes the need for expensive knock on profiles above the door frame and interference with the plaster line.
Initially available in White, Black and Anthracite Grey in standard sets, bespoke and matching colours will also be manufactured to order.
With an equivalent area of 2700 EA per vent, on a 16 mm rout, a standard three-door bi-fold installation will provide a cumulative equivalent area in the room of 8100EA and this will meet the requirements in Approved Document F( means of ventilation) in the Building Regulations.
Dean Bradley, Glazpart Sales Director explains why Glazpart has introduced the new Bi-fold Vent.“ From market research, the growth in bi-fold doors and in discussions with many of our customers, we identified the need for a vent that could not only work functionally with bi-fold doors but would also achieve compliance with building regulations requirements.”
With a growing number of fabricators using aluminium in their manufacturing, combined with an increase in homeowners’ demand, aluminium is a material that Glazpart is taking greater interest in.
In October 2024, Glazpart joined the Council for Aluminium in Building( CAB) to further expand the Glazpart team’ s knowledge and understanding of aluminium as a building material and how it fits within their own award-winning product portfolio and future product development.
Also at FIT Show, Glazpart officially launched its new Modular Vent to the market. The product was soft launched in February 2025 and is the best trickle vent in the market for watertightness( at 1000 Pa). The Spring Clip fitting( No Screws) saves on installation time and the vent, though one of the shortest width trickle vents available, achieves a 2000 EQA performance for each module fitted. Available in 100s of colour options, the Modular Vent is ideal for aluminium windows made for the heritage sector. Dean Bradley summarised,“ Both the Bi-fold Vent and the Modular Vent attracted great interest at the FIT Show, which is an early indication they will be popular products with companies operating in the aluminium market. Aluminium has become increasingly interesting to Glazpart as many of our customers make aluminium windows and doors. We are now looking forward to launching our“ Aluminium Vent” later this year and to adding to our growing range of products for the aluminium glazing sector.”
To find out more about Glazpart products please contact Dean Bradley, Sales Director on dbradley @ glazpart. co. uk or visit the Glazpart website: www. glazpart. com
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