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JANUARY 2014 PRO INSTALLER
PRO NEWS
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Revolving
Doors
Installed
When Stratford-based Automatic Doors Limited installed
specially designed revolving doors, manual standard
(JD47 Range) and thermally enhanced (TD68 Range)
swing doors and automatic doors at University of Warwick
it chose Jack Aluminium as its system supplier.
“We’ve worked with the University for over 12 years,”
says Walter Bruland, director at Automatic Doors and
a long standing customer of
Jack Aluminium. “Installing
doors where there are high
volumes of footfall means
we need the best quality.
We don’t leave anything to
chance, and all products we
manufacture and use are
fully tested.”
“Jack Aluminium has worked
closely with us through the design of the doors for this installation and gave us the technical
backup we needed when it came
to collating information for CE
marking and new European
standards.”
Jeff Pearson, sales director of
Jack Aluminium explains more
about the changes in the standards: “The industry has had two
new Standards which come into
force this year for manual and
automatic doors. The first was on
the 10th April. It started with the
‘The industry has had
two new Standards
which come into force
this year for manual
and automatic doors’
Members of leading support
organisation upbeat for 2014
A leading installer support organisation says its members are significantly
more upbeat about 2014, than they were about 2013 - this time last year.
At the end of each
calendar year The Consumer Protection Association (CPA) reaches
out to its members in
order to get feedback
about the state of the
market and how confident they are feeling
for the year ahead.
Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority
(FCA), the CPA provides
insurance backed guarantees (IBGs) and deposit
protection to installers carrying out home improvements and also provides
its members with a host of
beneficial schemes such as
marketing support; training
seminars; sales presentation advice and quarterly
assessment reports.
‘Installers are
winning more
business’
Jeremy Brett, Director of
the CPA, says the outlook
of his members is in tune
with the more upbeat feelings surrounding the UK
economy.
He comments: “Installers
are winning more business
and at higher order values;
and they expect this to
continue in 2014.
“Next year is poised to be
a pivotal one and all the
signs tell us the construction sector and economy
at large will improve.
Schemes such as Help to
Buy seem to be having an
impact and a feel-good
factor is returning to the
home improvement market.”
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new European standard for the
automatic door industry BS EN
16005. This was followed on 1
July by CE Marking where safety
features and U-Values must be
publically declared.
“We have been proactive in our
approach to CE marking and
wider testing to ensure that all the
test data customers need is freely
available to them. The project with
Automatic Doors and the University of Warwick was one of the
first under the new CE marking
and European standards and we’re
pleased that we were prepared in
advance to offer them the technical support they needed without
any time delays to the project.”
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