Pro Installer November 2016 - Issue 44 | Page 22

22 NOVEMBER 2016 PRO INSTALLER PRO NEWS www.proinstaller.co.uk 7 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT… WINLOCK SECURITY LTD You may know Winlock Security Ltd as the only volume supplier of window handles manufactured in the UK. Or, perhaps as the specialist supplier of innovative door and window hardware including timber, aluminium, PVCu and composite applications to UK and European fabricators? But here are 7 things you might not know about Winlock Security Ltd… 1. WORTH ITS WEIGHT Since commencing window handle production in 1987, Winlock Security has made and sold more the 25 million window handles. This is over 5,500 tonnes of metal and equates to: • Twice the weight of the steel in Blackpool Tower • Enough to fill 5 Olympic swimming pools • Laid end-to-end the distance across the Atlantic from England to the USA STILL NOT READY FOR DOC Q? 2. WAY BACK WHEN Diane Roberts Winlock Security will be celebrating 30 years as a window handle manufacturer in 2017, but before 1987 the business made camlocks and locking cylinders for cabinet locks, lockers and garage doors. Our longest serving employee is Diane Roberts, who has been with us for 43 years… We think she must have started when she was still at school! 3. TESTINGhave TIMES Don’t a Document Q solution? Use ours... FREE Winlock Security has conducted 30 different tests this year alone to PAS024 (2012) to ensure compliance to Document Q, ensuring fabricators and installers can use its hardware on many of the UK’s most popular PVCu and composite systems with immediate effect. Winlock’s testing programme covers outward opening casements, single doors, French doors, composite doors and flush sash windows. Profiles covered to date include; Veka/Halo, Linear, Deceuninck, Synseal, Eurocell, Swish, Kommerling and the 22 Optima system. • new We Profile have PAS024 tested designs for • No upfront costs. Why pay for your own certification when you can use ours? casements, flush sashes, single doors, french doors and composite doors. • Systems covered include Deceuninck, • No hidden charges. • Just make your products to the tested design and use our certificate.