Clearview National June 2015 - Issue 163 | Page 78
aluminium
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Time savings offering
Sapa Building System is one of Europe’s largest suppliers
of aluminium building systems, belonging to leading
international group, Sapa Group. The Group consists
of five operating companies and produces a variety of
product lines that are well known by the market.
»»Being part of a larger
group enables Sapa Building
Systems to benefit from the linked
research and development, design,
technology and best practice. As
a whole, Sapa Building System
aim to be the preferred European
provider of environmentally
sustainable and energy-efficient
aluminium building system
solutions, distinguished by
service, reliability, technology and
innovation.
With the company’s latest
introduction, customers are
reaping the rewards of unique
product kits available from
aluminium systems specialist.
As one of the only systems
company to provide windows and
doors in kit form, Sapa is able to
offer customers significant time
savings and reduced wastage in
comparison to products that are
supplied as bar length. A service
that Sapa has offered for more than
40 years, products are supplied in
boxes with a full set of assembly
and installation instructions and
an accessories pack.
‘unique to Sapa and
offer real benefits
to customers’
‘The process is very simple;
a customer fills in an order
form, then it is processed by the
customer service department. The
kits include pre-machined profiles
and give fabricators everything
they need to assemble the product
which means fabrication is less
time intensive,’ said Paul Strong,
Field Sales Director at Sapa
Building System.
‘Typically a door would take
around two hours to assemble
from a kit whereas you’d be
looking at between four and five
hours for the equivalent product
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in bar length. All the preparation
is done in our warehouse on CNC
machines and processed through
Sapa Logic. This is a software
system our customers also have
access to which provides technical
product information to help with
the fabrication process.’
Kits are unique to Sapa and
offer real benefits to customers.
Products that are provided
in bar length tend to clog up
production flows whereas using
a pre-machined kit will speed up
fabrication, allowing more jobs to
be completed and having a direct
effect on customers’ bottom line.
‘We order a lot of kits from
Sapa and they work really well
for us,’ comments Brian Ellis,
company director at Howard
Yarnold. ‘We find they also help
us reduce waste and give more
flexibility when it comes to the
huge number of different colours
that are now available. Using bar
length wouldn’t be a problem if
there were only limited colours
available as waste could be kept to
a minimum. The kits are a much
more cost effective way for us to
offer a wide range of colours.’
Sapa products that are available
as kits include all Dualframe
doors, Crown sliding folding
door, Crown 98 and Crown 120
doors and all horizontal and
vertical sliding windows.
‘much more
cost effective’
For more information contact
Sapa Building System on
01684 853500 or email info@
sapabuildingsystems.co.uk