22 | MAY 2017
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Colour converts
into sales
The trend within the home improve-
As part of the GGF’s 40th an-
niversary celebrations, GGF staff
gave away a free copy of the GGF
Safety and Security Good Practice
Guide to the first 40 visitors on
the stand each day of SCTX 2017.
The publication, valued at £150,
covers the use of safety and secu-
rity glass and glazing in buildings
including not just windows, doors
and curtain walling but also interi-
ors such as shower enclosures and
elevator enclosures. ment market from white towards colour
when choosing replacement windows,
doors and roofline products is converting
into sales, according to Freefoam.
The business has seen an increase in orders
for anthracite grey fascia and soffit during the
last year. Installers can now provide home-
owners with the opportunity to create a fully
coordinated roofline for their home by offer-
ing Freefoam’s new anthracite gutter.
Introduced last year, the anthracite grey
rainwater range is an exact match (RAL
No.7016) to the fascia and soffit products
and coordinates with many popular shades
of window frames and door finishes.
With a 77mm depth and a 116mm width,
the deep gutter is designed to manage in-
creasing levels of rainfall. Available with the
full range of matching fittings including un-
ion brackets, running outlets and hoppers,
and manufactured using co-extruded PVCu,
the Freefoam Freeflow range offers a long
lasting, leak free, no fade, low maintenance
solution all with a ten-year guarantee.
For more information, visit https://
www.counterterrorexpo.com/ All products are listed online at
www.freefoam.com
Security and
Counter Terror Expo
The Glass and Glazing Fed-
eration (GGF) supported the
Security & Counter Terror Expo
at Olympia, London, earlier this
month.
The GGF exhibited at Stand
I-20, with GGF technical staff on
hand to discuss all matters glass
and glazing. Ian Penfold of Solar
Gard (and chairman of the GGF
Window Film Group) presented
a demonstration of the perfor-
mance and properties of safety
and security glazing from the
GGF stand.
NEW ABS WEBSITE
Avocet Hardware has continued its fight against burglars with
the launch of www.abs-secure.co.uk, an easy to use website.
This online resource
brings together all the
relevant information about
lock-snapping, and how to
counter it using Avocet’s
snap secure locks.
The new site, which will
display perfectly no matter
what device a person uses
to access it, was developed
in response to a growing
demand amongst Avocet’s
Elite centre customers for
a website that addressed
lock snapping head on
and honestly, but without
providing burglars with a
veritable DIY lesson in it.
Derrick Purvis, marketing
manager of Brighouse-based
Avocet, said: “There’s a lot
of conflicting information
about lock-snapping and
an authoritative voice to tackle the
‘ issue
in a manner that made sense ’
how to prevent it flying
around out there and it
is very easy to become
confused. The feedback we
were getting was that peo-
ple wanted an authoritative
voice to tackle the issue in
a manner that made sense –
and I feel www.abs-secure.
c