DECEMBER 2019 | 31
Products
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Demand rises for DOORCO’s
bespoke glazing service
Reflecting changes in
the composite door supply
chain and growth in market
demand, DOORCO reports
that its prepping facility is
up 40% on last year, and
that a third of all prepped
doors are now sold with
glass. In fact, the leading
composite door supplier
has recently enjoyed a re-
cord month for the highest
number of prepped doors
ever.
Jayne Sullivan, Opera-
tions Director comments:
“Our bespoke glazing
service is now an integral
part of our business with
customers relying on us for
complex orders, to support
volume production or to
help them with bespoke
glazed door designs. We
can achieve this thanks to
our huge stockholding and
warehousing facility, and
our experienced glaz-
ing team. The team now
consists of five dedicated
experts and a senior leader
with strong industry expe-
rience to drive the prep-
ping/manufacturing depart-
ment forward with the aim
of achieving the highest
levels of OTIF deliveries
across all products.
“Our commitment to
keeping close to market
trends, talking to customers
regularly and tracking or-
ders means we know what
to stock. When it comes to
glass choice, we know our
best-selling lines are the
Clear, Obscure and Satin
ranges so we’ve boosted
stock volumes to ensure
we can deliver the promis-
es set out in our Customer
Charter. In addition to
the 40,000 door blanks,
we now hold significant
amounts of glass in a vari-
ety of permutations. This
means our stock glass can
be off-the-shelf, glazed or
unglazed, and despatched
from three days.”
www.door-co.com
REHAU’S GENEO
NAMED PRODUCT
OF THE YEAR
REHAU’s GENEO range of fibre-re-
inforced windows has been awarded the
prestigious Product of the Year 2019 title
by specialist architecture publisher Callwey
Architekturverlag.
The range has been recognised in the
windows category by a highly-respected
judging panel from the architecture and
media sectors. In particular, the judges
were impressed with its use of sustainable
materials to produce a window system
with outstanding energy efficiency.
The latest of REHAU’s innovative
polymer-based solutions with high-tech fi-
bre-composite window profiles developed
over the past decade, the GENEO system
was launched earlier this year and features
the patented RAU-FIPRO X profile core al-
lows maximum stability, without the need
for steel reinforcement. As such, floor-
to-ceiling windows up to 2.80m tall and
1.60m wide can be created with specially
designed composite material, which means
a new benchmark for coloured frame
designs has been set too, with new heights
of up to 2.70m available.
By combining REHAU’s built-in IVS
reinforcement system with an optimised
profile design, there are no thermal bridg-
es, allowing GENEO to achieve a U-value
of up to 0.79 W/m²K and reduce energy
consumption by up to 76%. The GENEO
system has also been designed to easily
incorporate a range of intelligent REHAU
solutions, including Smart Guard security
technology and its INOVENT intelligent
ventilation system.
REHAU’s colour creative range boasts
over 400 designs. By combining the
aluminium cladding with a profile from
the wood-effect range, designers can give
their windows a classy look with the blend
of Alu Top exterior and the wood effect
interior.
www.rehau.com
FIRST EVER SMART LOCK TO GAIN SOLD SECURE APPROVAL
Avia, by Mighton, has be-
come the first ever smart lock
to have its mechanical security
approved by Sold Secure, owned
by the Master Locksmiths Asso-
ciation; a milestone that follows
recent accolades from the British
Standards Institution (BSI) and
European Telecommunication
Standards Institute (ETSI) and
one that underlines not just the
strength of Avia’s software secu-
rity, but its hardware credentials
as well.
Designed to work with Apple’s
HomeKit security ecosystem,
widely regarded the most secure
platform available, Avia also
utilises a TS 007 3-star / SS312
Diamond cylinder that helps to
ensure peace of mind for home-
owners.
Mighton chairman, Mike Der-
ham, commented: “When we set
about developing Avia, one of
our primary objectives was that it
had to offer the very best levels
of security for both its electron-
ic and its mechanical elements.
Avia is leading the way on IoT
security and now, with the latest
approval by Sold Secure, we have
shown that it is also incredibly
resistant to traditional methods of
attack.”
Sold Secure, a scheme that is
dedicated to reducing the risk
of crime through the rigorous
assessment of security products,
subjected the Avia secure smart
lock to a series of gruelling tests,
at its purpose-built laboratories
in Rugby; including efforts to
compromise the lock via manual
attack testing, drilling through
the test door in order to short cir-
cuit Avia’s electronics, an attempt
to access the wires that power
the lock’s electronic thumbturn,
and a more traditional cylinder
‘snap’ test.
www.mightonproducts.com