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Roseview develops safety window for hospital
Roseview Windows, a specialist fabricator in the Rehau Heritage vertical slider system, has manufactured and installed purpose-designed replacement windows at a secure hospital facility for the mentally ill.
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Archive TitlesDelta making strides: fast service and delivery times helping Delta in UK market
Already a leading player in Italy, after just three years on the UK market, Delta is fast becoming one of the leading names for fabrication machinery in the UK. It has done this by successfully adopting a sales and marketing strategy which makes good use of carefully selected sales and ...
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It’s time to go on the defensive
SIR – I READ THE MANNED SECURITY Solutions Supplement in Security Management Today’s February edition with great interest. One article – ‘Out on a limb?’, pp30-32 – made some excellent points. It also set me thinking about the ‘lot’ of the security officer, and those guarding sites on a solo ...
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David’s Millionaire dreams in ruins
The next time you encounter the word ‘taciturn’, spare a thought for David Scholefield, Managing Director of Oakland Glass of Dewsbury.
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Darby Glass’ new team
Darby Glass Ltd has appointed an experienced and enthusiastic new management team with plans to achieve 50% growth over the next three years.
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Archive TitlesLisec toughener draws crowds
Lisec, one of the world’s leading manufacturer of equipment for IG production and flat glass processing, chartered airliners to fly visitors from their stand at Glasstec last year to Austria. Guests experienced the Lisec high-tech centres in Seitenstetten and Hausmening in real production environment and saw Lisec’s own show presentation.
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Archive TitlesStructura makes an entrance in Earls Court
Aluminium-framed, glass, entrance pass doors to the 31-storey Empress State Building in Earls Court, London, have been manufactured and installed by Structura UK Ltd as part of a completed £85 million renovation of the 1959-built tower block owned by Land Securities.Acting as a sub-contractor to Portal Ltd, Structura UK supplied ...
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Archive TitlesZendow winning favour with homeowners: Lancashire fabricator converts to zendow and reaps rewards
As one of Status Systems’ longest serving accounts, D&G Windows was the first customer to fully convert production over to zendow five months ago. Since then, the Lancashire based fabricator has seen a significant increase in business, particularly installing zendow into older properties.
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Archive TitlesDoors decided on: speed frame’s doncaster council contract
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council has chosen Speed Frame as its main supplier of composite doors for the next several years, a decision that will also benefit the local economy
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Growth in public sector replacement market continues
The last in Palmer’s 2004 reports on the Window and Door Industry reveals some interesting changes in the market.
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Archive TitlesConservatory Monthly Trends: Not as strong as last year
Conservatory sales expectations remain positive, but forecasts are down in January 2005 compared with January 2004 (see chart).
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Archive TitlesFredericks’ new composites
Leading trade fabricator John Fredericks has launched a new range of composite doors, which have been designed to combine good looks with high security.
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Archive TitlesTwo’s company
Lars Norby Johansen and Nick Buckles are responsible for the future direction of Group 4 Securicor, the UK’s inaugural ‘super contractor’. Not only that, their company is duty-bound to set ever-higher standards in an industry hitherto characterised by poor pay and conditions, the long hours culture and tendering price wars. ...
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Archive TitlesScotland: closer to regulation
The Scottish security industry has taken a further step towards regulation thanks to the introduction of a new Bill in the Houses of Parliament. The Serious and Organised Crime and Policing Bill 2004 contains a clause to extend the scope of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 to Scotland. The ...
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Polypipe to close Premier Profiles and pull out of PVC-U windows
Polypipe has made the made the following statement about its decision to close Premier Profiles and pull out of PVC-U window systems:Mike Semens-Flanagan, Managing Director, Premier Profiles commented:‘Due to the many adverse trading conditions facing the business, Premier Profiles suffered significant financial losses in 2004. We have subsequently ...
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Hurst: Using doors to close window sales
For so long the last thing to come out of the salesman’s bag has been the humble door panel brochure, usually leading to the offer of the door complete with its climbing rose thrown in or at a knock down price if the deal was signed there and then.
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Archive TitlesRehau’s London centre
Rehau has officially opened a new facility for its Building Solutions division in the London Building Centre.
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From CCTV to IP: training in focus
Those individuals who work to provide a more secure environment – be they managers, officers or consultants – must have a broad range of skills, coupled with a clear understanding of their role. Mike Tennent reviews the educational courses on offer from Tavcom Training in 2005 that will help them ...
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Archive TitlesThe price of progress: rising supply chain costs could mean corporate casualties
Some of the big name players in the industry are struggling to simply stand still in the face of rising costs. Neil Roberts, Marketing Director of leading systems supplier Duraflex, considers the price of progress.
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Don’t gamble with casino comments
SIR – AS A REGULAR READER OF SECURITY Management Today I was shocked and very surprised that you should make such sweeping generalities about the casino industry in your January editorial (‘Taking a gamble’, p3).You are well aware that the British gaming industry is the most closely regulated in the ...