HARDWARE & SECURITY
Cost-effective alternative to triple glazing
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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE-BASED installation company T & K Home Improvements is singing the praises of TruFit- after introducing the expanding foam edge tape from Edgetech UK to its installations.
T & K Home Improvements is the sister company of PVCu fabricator Emplas and offers energy efficient windows, doors and conservatories to homeowners across the region.
Chief operations officer Paul Woods said:“ We needed an installation system that offered clean lines and dependable reliability that would outlast the guarantee on our Ecoplus range which has been developed using our own profile.
“ Traditional‘ wet’ sealants like expanding foam and silicone can fail after a period, but TruFit offers a completely dependable, energy efficient seal that maintains the high energy ratings of our windows.
“ It also offers customers a more cost-effective alternative to triple glazing. Our Ecoplus range, installed with TruFit, offers a premium installation to homeowners, with the levels of thermal performance they are looking for, without the added cost of triple glazed units.”
As part of Edgetech’ s service, installation training using TruFit was provided to the fitting teams at T & K Home Improvements.
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LATIN TEMPERING
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GLASTON HAS CLOSED AN important deal for an FC Series flat tempering furnace with Chinook convection system to Comercial Dialum located in Santiago, Chile. Measured by size, this is the biggest flat tempering furnace that Glaston has ever sold in South America. The furnace will be delivered to Chile during summer 2017.
Comercial Dialum is one of the leading architectural glass fabricators in Chile offering high-quality tempered and laminated glasses. In addition to their home market products are exported to Latin America and the United States.
‘ some early signs of positive development are perceptible in Chile, Peru and Colombia’
COASTLINE IS WORTH ITS SALT
Hardware specialist VBH has added a new range of stainless steel door hardware to its greenteQ range. The suite will be branded‘ Coastline’.
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GREENTEQ COASTLINE COMPRISES 92PZ door handles, letterboxes, butt hinges and door knockers and has been developed in direct response to feedback from customers who required a stainless steel furniture suite for installations in aggressive coastal and / or industrial regions both in the UK and overseas.
All Coastline furniture is produced from corrosion resistant and hard-wearing austenitic stainless steel and is subjected to in excess of 1000 hours neutral salt spray testing to BS EN ISO 9227:2012.
VBH Technical Manager Melvin Hutton says‘ Customers were telling us that they wanted stainless steel versions of our standard furniture. The existing greenteQ Alpha 25 stainless steel door handles have become very popular over the last 12 months, but we also needed suited letterboxes and knockers which meet the same anti corrosion standards. We’ ve now introduced these new products and a brand new butt hinge and have grouped them with the door handle to form the new and exciting greenteQ Coastline range.’
“ In South America, the glass processing market has been very slow during the past years. However, some early signs of positive development are perceptible in Chile, Peru and Colombia, especially for high-quality tempered glass”, says Moreno Magon, VP, Sales and Service, South America.
The FC Series is well-known for high capacity, energy efficiency, built-in process intelligence and ease of use and above all for the premium quality of its end products. With its state-of-the-art Chinook convection system, the FC series meets all the requirements for demanding low emissivity glass coatings.
“ By incorporating an FC furnace, we will increase our production capacity, considerably reduce anisotropy and be able to process large glasses, which the local market does not currently offer,” says Fernando Diez, Executive President and owner of Commercial Company Dialum. www. vbhgb. com
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