Clearview National June 2017 - Issue 187 | Page 67

ALUMINIUMEXTRA
Enjoying Huge
Success with
Bi-Folds
» » TRADE FABRICATOR
TWR Trade Frames is enjoying
huge success with aluminium
bi-fold doors and regularly
produces over 50 per week in
their 25,000 sq. ft. factory in
Peterlee. They have a nationwide
customer network and regularly
deliver to installers from as far
afield as Scotland, Wales and the
south of England.
The product formed a major
part of TWR’s recent Open
Day presentations and has been
so successful that the Peterlee
factory was opened last year to
cope with increased aluminium
production numbers, having
outgrown capacity at the
existing factory in nearby
Sunderland.
The bi-folds are produced
from Smarts Visofold profile
and are geared using the
greenteQ Clearspan hardware
system from VBH that includes
adjustable roller assemblies
to help with quick and easy
installation. The profile is
powder coated on site to
the customer’s individual
specification and is then geared
using Clearspan hardware in
black, white or anthracite grey,
with additional colour options
on the handles.
The doors are secured
using greenteQ main door
and intermediate sash locking
systems.
Clearspan hardware has
been tested at BSI to the PAS
24 security standard. Those
installers who deal with the
new build market must be able
to demonstrate to Building
Control that their doors meet
the requirements of approved
Mike Davis, CDW
Managing Director
Document Q. TWR are able to
supply 3rd party certification
from BSI that this is the case
with their Clearspan ‘PAS 24
Spec’ bi-fold doors.
TWR’s Managing Director
Terry Richardson was presented
with a certificate to mark
TWR’s commitment to produce
bi-fold doors to the Clearspan
BSI ‘PAS 24 spec’.
VBH Area Sales Manager,
Des Turnbull, is delighted
to have TWR as a customer;
“The management at TWR is
forward thinking and customer
driven. I was amazed to see
from my records recently that
they have manufactured over
3500 bi-folds since starting
with greenteQ. I saw for myself
at their open day in March
how they interact with their
customers and it’s obvious that
their combination of great
customer service and top notch
products is the perfect formula
for repeat business.”
For TWR’s bi-folds call them
direct on 0191 565 2200
or contact VBH on 01634
263300.
Will China’s new
environmental policies
create upheaval to the
aluminium market?
China has spent decades building its
industrial capacity but is now turning its
attention to pollution as the priority policy.
» » THE RECENTLY
introduced Air Pollution Control
regulation has been imposed to
eliminate coal usage and reduce
the emissions of almost every
other pollutant across 28 cities. As
part of this, the government has
imposed targets to cut industrial
metals production including
aluminium.
Although aluminium is
considered a ‘green’ building
material, many older and smaller
production facilities in the cities
source their power from coal,
the main target of China’s anti-
pollution initiative.
As a result, China is forcing
aluminium smelters to cut
outputs by 30 per cent over the
winter heating season (November
– March), with estimates that the
cuts will mean the loss of 2.71
million tonnes of aluminium.
The news has already seen a
hike in global aluminium prices.
On the London Metal Exchange,
aluminium hit a near two-year
high of $1,957 per tonne.
Mike Davis, Managing
Director of aluminium specialist
CDW Systems, comments:
“The aluminium market’s main
problem for many years has
been over-supply, primarily in
China, so a cut in output will
help to reduce the vast inventory
overhang and hopefully work
towards a long-term reduction in
output from China.”
www.cdwsystems.co.uk
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