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TigerStop
Launches New
Manufacturing
Resource
Weekly Tiger Shop blog aims to
empower manufacturers to be
globally competitive.
T
igerStop has launched Tiger Shop, a
weekly blog that aims to empower
manufacturers to be globally
competitive. The new blog will include
information and recommendations on ‘best
practices’ for growth and efficiency and
will include news, how-to-guides, industry
insights and forecasts. Tiger Shop will be
published each Tuesday following the
inaugural entry posted on January 13, 2016.
Tiger Shop will include articles on
technologies that increase shop efficiency,
guides for adding automation and lean
principals, and it will include stories of
successful practices from TigerStop
customers in the wood, metal and plastic
industries. Content will come from within
the company as well as from some notable
guest bloggers and will focus on building
a successful business that can compete
globally and source locally.
“Now, more than ever, you need to be smart,
and work more efficiently with what you
have,” says Spencer Dick, TigerStop Founder
and CEO. “We are here to share best
practices, educational material, and advice
from the front lines. And, most importantly,
to learn with you.”
Tiger Shop blog posts will be shared on
multiple platforms including social media
such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and
LinkedIn.
Future blog topics include, ‘How to cut
costs from your supplier’ and ‘Wood cost
projections for 2016’.
For more information visit www.tigerstop.com
30 Australian Window Association Autumn 2016
uPVC
Australian
Industry Code
of Practice
Released
SuperExpo2016:
The Must See
blind Industry
Event For 2016
T
F
he Vinyl Council of Australia and
AWA are pleased to announce the
release of an Australian Industry
Code of Practice (ICP) and accreditation
scheme for the manufacture of unplasticised
PVC (uPVC), or vinyl, profiles to be used
in windows and doors in Australia. A
committee brought together by the Vinyl
Council including uPVC system suppliers,
Vinyl Council and AWA staff have worked
diligently over the past two years to create
this document.
The purpose of the ICP is to provide greater
confidence to specifiers, builders and
consumers in the durability of uPVC profiles
under Australian climatic conditions and to
reduce the concern that uPVC profiles will
discolour.
It sets specific composition, weathering
resistance, colour and strength requirements
for extruded uPVC profiles for use in
windows and doors in Australian buildings.
The ICP can be viewed at http://www.awa.org.
au/resources/industry-code-of-practice-icp or
http://www.upvcwindows.org.au/technical-info/
industry-code-of-practice
ollowing the very successful joint event
in 2013, two leading industry trade
associations, the Blind Manufacturers
Association of Australia and the Specialty
Textiles Association, have again joined forces
and are co-hosting the SuperExpo2016.
Once again, the Gold Coast Convention and
Exhibition Centre will play host to this trade
event held only every three years for three
big days from 8-10 June, 2016.
The response of potential exhibitors to
date has exceeded our most optimistic
expectations, with stage one of our
exhibition space selling out in the first few
months, and stage two nearly full.
As a result, the 2016 event is likely to be
the largest trade exhibition ever staged in
Australia for the window furnishings, awning,
marine and outdoor textile conversion.
In addition, some members of the Textile
Distributors Association, which represent
the soft-furnishings sector, are also
supporting the event.
Based on SuperExpo2013 attendance,
we are e