Clearview National May 2016 - Issue 174 | Page 44

FIT SHOW 2016 A TREE OF COLOURS GRIPPED THE SHOW »»Mila officially launched its new GRIP™ Colour espag handle at the FIT Show on a stand which was appropriately bursting with colour. The Carbon Trust certified GRIP™ handle has already been getting lots of attention in the market because it is so ‘green’, but Mila has now revealed that it is not just green but multi-coloured and is available in any RAL colour or gold or chrome finish. Because it is produced in high strength polycomposite ABS, GRIP™ Colour brings the option of coloured handles to the mainstream hardware sector for the first time. Customers can choose bespoke colours to blend with coloured window frames and sashes or even contrasting colours to suit interior design schemes or corporate identities. The centrepiece to Mila’s stand was a giant tree with multi-coloured GRIP™ Colour espag handles forming the leaves, blossom and fruit and there were GRIP™ Colour handles throughout the stand matching windows and doors in PVCu, aluminium and composite profiles. Richard Gyde, Mila’s Managing Director, said at the show: “GRIP™ is a truly clever and original product packed with features which give our customers a real head start in lots of market sectors. “It fulfils all of the requirements from the commercial sector for a green product with low embodied carbon and, at the same time, it also offers lots of opportunities to win business from design conscious specifiers and homeowners looking for something just a bit special or different.” All of the handles in Mila’s patented GRIP™ range are strength tested to more than 60kg and cycle tested to 50,000 cycles. They are also corrosion and chemical resistant and offer a high gloss finish with inherent UV stability. www.mila.co.uk ‘TROUBLE-FREE’ DOOR SKINS FROM RÖCHLING »»Röchling Engineering Plastics is amongst one of the market leaders in PVCu door skin production and supply. The German business promoted its Trovidur ®Astrawood-Cool sheets at the FIT show, describing the product as a ‘troublefree door skin applications.’ Astrawood-Cool sheets are a range of the Trovidur® product family. Laminated with a semi rigid PVCu based foil the sheets have been developed exclusively for the manufacture of external 44 M AY 2 01 6 doors. The Astrawood-Cool incorporates a pigmentation technology giving the foils total weather resistance and durability, but also allowing for colour matching of woodgrains used in window profiles, roof line products and conservatories. The technical advantages of the product compared to that of its competition means that have high heat or cold, impact and crack resistance, superior scratch and abrasion resistance, and extraordinary foil thickness. The foils specified as used in the range are manufactured in Germany by the company which has more than 30 years’ experience with exterior films. The sheets use infrared light reflective pigments in the decorative film and the substrate to minimise heat build up. All films are proofed according to quality and test requirement RAL-GZ 716. Astrawood-Cool is available in a variety of wood finishes and also in a range of plain colours. The sheets are supplied with an embossing which exactly matches the equivalent wood grain foil present on frame profile. The global Röchling Group is headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, and encompasses 77 companies. Together, they employ approximately 8,500 people in 22 countries around the world. The group has Industrial, Automotive and Medical divisions, and annual sales revenue from business in Europe, the Americas, and Asia amounts to approximately 1.6 billion Euro. The group told Clearview that it was a late decision to attend The FIT Show. A spokesman said: “It was more about us keeping in contact with our UK market which is a very big one - and meeting expectations of those existing UK customers.” www.roechling.com