36 | FEBRUARY 2020
Products
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A New Glass Sealing Process From Endurance
Always a company that invests in
Brisant Gets
Sweeter
Creating a pit-free furniture sys-
tem has been a bugbear of Nick Dutton,
CEO of Brisant-Secure, ever since he
moved on from running a door manufac-
turer and couldn’t find a hardware system
that did what it was supposed to achieve.
2020 sees Brisant launching a brand new
20-year guarantee on the Sweet hardware
system. They’ve taken the decision to leap
from ten years to twenty, following the
rigorous testing which they have put the
handles and letterplates through over the
last year.
The choices they made in manufacturing,
coating with six layers of armour, have paid
off. They put a handle in an independent
test chamber and it still looked great, even
after being hammered with saltwater for
over 8,000 hours. That’s an incredible 30x
more time than required for the flagship EN
1906:2012 corrosion standard.
Sweet is an edgeless, long lasting,
pit-free beautiful hardware system for
any door. It comprises of two types of
handle, including the patented secure
and award-winning Lock Lock. They
have created a second shape of letter
plate, having listened to customers.
There is now a more traditional square
plate as well as the oval, edgeless shape.
There are rounded, screw-less numerals
and letters as well as a new two-part
knocker.
In addition to the standard colour range,
Brisant have added the on-trend rose gold.
It looks fantastic on all door colours and
is manufactured to the same standard as
the original colours. 2020 also sees the in-
troduction of the two-part knocker which
is still true to the Sweet design concept
but moving on from the historical ‘urn’
knockers.
Nick Dutton CEO of Brisant-Secure con-
cluded: “Brisant aims to be at the forefront
of development, whether that is keep-
ing door furniture looking great against
extreme weather conditions or staying
on-trend with the launch of the new rose
gold. We are delighted with how good it
looks and how well it is performing and
are delighted with the result.”
www.brisant-secure.com
outstanding product performance, En-
durance Doors have recently invested
in a new glass sealing process to their
solid timber core composite doors, which
has had a positive effect on helping to
eliminate customer concerns over water
ingress.
Water ingress in composite doors has
hampered the composite door sector in
the past and it has been several years since
Endurance incorporated a unique Moisture
Barrier Systems (MBS) to the bottom of
their door slabs. But the recent introduc-
tion of a new glass sealing process adds
further credence to the claim that Endur-
ance Doors have become the #KingOf-
Composites.
The first stage in the glass sealing pro-
cess involves the bonding of the two inner
glazing cassettes and glass unit to the
Endurance door slab, using the pre-in-
serted black double-sided tape. The new
additional stage in this important process
introduces the wet sealing of the external
cassettes, with the application of a silicone
bead to the inner and outer channels
of the external cassette, before they are
both pushed together on the slab, excess
then wiped clean prior to being screwed
together.
This additional application of silicone
has had a positive effect on the number of
customer concerns. All of the operational
efforts over the last 18 months in terms of
adopting a quality culture and this and other
new processes, have seen customer product
issues nearly completely eliminated.
Stephen Nadin, Managing Director of
Endurance Doors commented: “With the
recent heavy rainfall during the latter
three months of the year, we’ve heard of
a number of composite door installations
that have been subject to water ingress to
the foot of the door slab and also into the
glazing cassettes. The results have been
graphic and represent the risk of install-
ing composite doors where manufacturers
don’t take water ingress seriously.”
www.endurancedoors.co.uk
VBH PROVIDES A SAFE GREENTEQ EXIT
Award winning hardware specialist
VBH has added Anti-Panic emergency exit
and panic hardware to its greenteQ range
of products.
Manufactured in Italy, which is well
known for its expertise in this sector, the
range consists of panic bolts and panic
latches in cross-arm and push-pad ver-
sions, and is available from VBH stock
in white and silver finishes. Touch bars,
mortice and electric devices, and other
finishes, are all available on a special order
basis.
Panic latches are available as either sin-
gle-point or 3-point versions.
VBH Marketing Manager Gary Gleeson
advises, “All Anti-Panic bolts and latches
are tested, certified and CE marked to the
relevant BS EN1125 or 179 standards.
“Anti-Panic is available for single and
double PVCu, aluminium and timber
doors and there is the option of fitting
an outside access device where con-
trolled access from outside the building
is required.”
greenteQ Anti-Panic devices are re-
versible, cutting down on a fabricator’s
stock holding and eliminating handing
errors.
www.vbhgb.com
Avia, Leading the way with Smart Security
Mighton has underlined the cre-
dentials of the Avia smart lock as the most
secure product of its type on the market,
thanks to an unbeatable combination of
traditional mechanical hardware, recently
approved by independent test house, Sold
Secure, and market leading software that
is designed to work with Apple’s HomeKit
security ecosystem, regarded as the most
secure platform available.
Mighton’s chairman, Mike Derham, com-
mented: “Many homeowners are still wary
about the security credentials of smart
locks, believing them to be vulnerable to
‘hacking’. With Avia however, there are no
such concerns, as we have proven it to be
the most advanced and secure smart lock
available. Plus, in the highly unlikely event
that there is a technical issue, homeowners
know that with Avia, they can still main-
tain access to their property, manually.”
Avia was designed from the offset to
incorporate the very best levels of securi-
ty for both its mechanical and electronic
elements. It was the first smart lock to
achieve the Government’s Code of Prac-
tice for consumer Internet of Things (IoT)
security, earning accreditation from the
British Standards Institute (BSI) as a result,
as well as rec-
ognition from
the European
Telecommunication Standards
Institute (ETSI TS 103 645),
the first globally applicable
standard for consumer IoT se-
curity. More recently, Avia was
subjected to rigorous manual
attack tests at Sold Secure’s facilities in Rug-
by, where, thanks to its inherent strength
it became the first smart lock to ever meet
the criteria for SS301 Silver approval.
www.mightonproducts.com