Aiming to make it even easier for its customers to connect with potential prospects, Insight Data has added new, intuitive design features to STEM, the new, integrated email marketing platform for Salestracker.

STEM users can now design and build email campaigns using the platform’ s straightforward‘ drag and drop’ feature, easily complying assets, textboxes and calls to action to create powerful email marketing campaigns. Alternatively, users who are confident with coding can create their campaigns in HTML or use

one of STEM’ s dynamic email templates.

Launched last year, STEM transforms how leading systems houses, fabricators and component suppliers reach potential customers. Instead of exporting data from Salestracker to use in a third-party email marketing platform, users can design, build, test and send campaigns from within Salestracker and then track any responses, leads or enquiries.

The addition of STEM now means Salestracker completes the hat-trick, combining an online prospect database complete with over 60,000 prospects from across the fenestration and construction industries. www. insightdata. co. uk

The landmark appearance of an 85-year-old Merseyside grammar school has been retained for future generations, thanks to the close replication of more than 200 unique and distinctive timber windows in the VEKA M70 system from Glazerite UK Group and local installer K2 Aluminium Systems Ltd.

The windows were very much a part of the character of the 1930s-built Wirral Grammar School for Boys and the look of the replacements was an essential factor but the specification also brought another major

benefit, as K2 Commercial Manager Liam Bird explained:

“ Some classrooms had a problem with both solar gain and glare, so a blue tint was specified for the glass. The difference was immediately noticeable; the rooms no longer overheat and the natural light is more subdued.”

The contract was secured via architect / surveyor Arcadis in co-operation with of the VEKA UK Group, which also provided technical support such as specification, drawings and wind calculations.

www. glazeritewindows. co. uk

Virtuoso is set to deliver a‘ touching’ experience for its growing installer network as it announces a series of exclusive customer experience days. Guests will get the chance to see the range of composite and PVCu panels and feel the sensational new Virtu-AL composite door.

Dozens of installers have already signed up to attend a customer day, which will be held at Virtuoso’ s 80,000-square foot site at Birtley in County Durham. This will be the first time that Virtuoso has hosted a series of installer-driven events since becoming part of Customade Group.

Created to satisfy the growing consumer demand for aluminium products, Virtu-AL combines the finest

qualities of a composite door with the premium look of an aluminium door.

Guests to the Birtley site will be treated to the full Virtuoso experience during their visit. The Virtuoso team will show guests an enviable collection of contemporary door designs and a wealth of ancillaries.

www. virtuoso-doors. co. uk

Paul Spencer, Group Sales Director

Hallmark has been manufacturing composite doors for over 20 years. After the emergence of the 44-door slab in 2007, it saw a great many more companies enter the fold. But how can you be sure what you are buying?

BM Trada, BSI, and Cen Solutions are three of several companies within the glazing industry who offer certification schemes to door and window manufacturers. These vary from a basic level to a full-scale level of manufacturing certification, levels of manufacturing which are audited every 12 months.

For a door to be supplied accredited to either Document Q or with a Police Secured By Design licence, the manufacturer would need to be able to prove full compliancy to Pas 24 for security and BS6375 for a full weather rating, tested every 12 months

independently and not cascaded test evidence. Hallmark chose to work with Cen Solutions, a fully accredited Gold Member licence number CMS 3054DG.

The entire door range including the Fire Door range is fully tested to Pas 24-2016 security including the cut through test, and BS6375 wind and water weather tested. All the components used on a Hallmark door have a CE marking down to the steel used to reinforce the outer frames.

All door furniture supplied on a Hallmark door is TS007 approved and CE stamped, and Hallmark is one of the first door manufacturers to offer a fully TS008 compliant letter plate.

On the 1st of March 2017 all UKAS test centres officially began security testing doors to Pas 24-2016. Manufacturers currently offering Pas 24 – 2012 will have until

the end of February 2018 to update their test data to 2016 to remain compliant.

What should you be looking for when choosing your door supplier?

• Pas 24 from March 2018 – Pas 24- 2016( this will be the minimum-security requirement for Doc Q)

• BS 6375( replaced Pas 23 in 2009). Minimum requirement for Doc Q

• All furniture on doors to comply with TS007( CE stamped)

• Letter plate to be TS008( requirement for Pas 24 – 2016)

• Doors need to achieve a U-value of 1.8 or better in the UK, and 1.6 or better in Scotland

www. hallmarkpanels. com