28 | JUNE 2020
All Doors
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SPECIALIST WOOD AND TIMBER DOOR
COMPANY HAS SECURITY AT CORE
Forza Doors is one of the
latest companies to join Secured
by Design (SBD), the national police
crime prevention initiative.
Forza Doors are specialists in
the preparation of wood veneers
and timber utilised in the production
of doors, frames, panels and
associated joinery for use in the
commercial interior construction
market, encompassing office, education,
health, hotel and retail.
Forza Doors join SBD having
achieved Police Preferred Specification
accreditation for four of
their doorsets, all of which have
achieved dual certification for fire
and enhanced security. You can
find out more about the company
and these products here: https://
www.securedbydesign.com/
member-companies/sbd-members?view=companydetail&account=0011i00000Jpw50AAB
Alan Brown Sales director at
Forza Doors comments “Forza’s
continued appetite to ensure our
products are correctly certificated
continues with being part
of the SBD scheme. Our varied
customer base that ranges
from architects, designers and
specialist contractors will take
great comfort in knowing that
our products meet the high level
of performance requirements
that is required within the SBD
scheme”.
SBD Development Officer Lyn
Poole said: “Forza Doors have
achieved the dual certification for
enhanced security and fire rating.
The doors are quality timber
doorsets that are ideal for high
end apartment entrance doors. I
am very pleased that Forza Doors
have become a SBD Members
and I look forward to working
with them, as well as seeing what
products they are going to add to
their Police Preferred Specification
range in the future.”
SBD is part of Police Crime
Prevention Initiatives (PCPI),
a police-owned, not-for-profit
organisation that works on behalf
of the Police Service to deliver a
wide range of crime prevention
and demand reduction initiatives
across the UK. SBD plays a significant
crime prevention role in the
planning process to design out
crime in a wide range of building
sectors. It has achieved some
significant success including one
million homes built to SBD standards
with reductions in crime of
up to 87%.
SBD have many partner organisations,
ranging from the Home
Office, Ministry of Housing,
Communities & Local Government
and the Police Service
through to local authorities, housing
associations, developers and
manufacturers and work closely
with standards and certification
bodies to ensure that their publicly
available standards actually
meet the needs of the police and
public alike.
Products must be subject to
rigorous testing and additionally
be fully certificated by an independent,
third-party certification
body accredited by the United
Kingdom Accreditation Service
(UKAS) before being allowed to
carry the SBD logo - this is the
only way for companies to obtain
police recognition for security-related
products in the UK.
www.forza-doors.com
www.securedbydesign.com
APEER INCREASES CUT-THROUGH SECURITY
WITH STEEL REINFORCEMENT AND
ALUMINIUM MESH CORE ON ALL DOORS
Apeer has significantly improved
the security across the entire range of
its Apeer-branded residential composite
doors, with the addition of steel reinforcement
to the hinge stile together with
strengthened aluminium mesh embedded
in the core of every door that it manufactures
at its Ballymena, County Antrim
factory. Included as part of the standard
specification across the board and at no
increased cost, the reinforcements will be
screwed and bonded into the high-density
polyurethane core of each hand-made
door. The result is a composite door that
offers the highest levels of thermal insulation
and security, with no risk of water
absorption.
‘
homeowners will find
our products compare
very favourably with
every other composite
door on the market
’
The decision to make the upgrade has
been taken as part of an overall product
review, within which it was decided to
make the fundamental change simply for
the purpose of increasing the competitive
appeal of all Apeer composite doors,
through performance enhancements and
other improvements.
Asa McGillian, Apeer’s Managing Director
explained: “Homeowners have never
been better informed and are now able
not only to research every purchase that
they may be considering, but increasingly
to understand the technical as well as aesthetic
differences between products. When
they compare Apeer doors with others,
they will find our products compare very
favourably with every other composite
door on the market. We want to continue
making the gains in sales volumes and
market share that we have enjoyed, especially
in the last four years.”
Every Apeer door manufactured comfortably
exceeds PAS24:2016.
www.apeer.co.uk