Clearview National November 2016 - Issue 180 | Page 16

INDUSTRYNEWS

7 things you
didn’t know
about…Winlock
Security Ltd
You may know Winlock Security Ltd
as the only volume supplier of window
handles manufactured in the UK. Or,
perhaps as the specialist supplier of
innovative door and window hardware
including timber, aluminium, PVCu
and composite applications to UK
and European fabricators? But here
are 7 things you might not know
about Winlock Security Ltd…

1. WORTH ITS
WEIGHT
Since commencing
window handle production
in 1987, Winlock Security has
made and sold more the 25
million window handles. This
is over 5,500 tonnes of metal
and equates to:
• Twice the weight of the
steel in Blackpool Tower
• Enough to fill 5 Olympic
swimming pools
• Laid end-to-end the
distance across the
Atlantic from England to
the USA

2. WAY BACK WHEN

Diane Roberts

Winlock Security will be
celebrating 30 years as a
window handle manufacturer
in 2017, but before 1987 the
business made camlocks and
locking cylinders for cabinet
locks, lockers and garage
doors. Our longest serving
employee is Diane Roberts,
who has been with us for 43
years… We think she must
have started when she was still
at school!

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3.TESTING TIMES
Winlock Security has conducted 30 different tests
this year alone to PA S024 (2012) to ensure compliance
to Document Q, ensuring fabricators and installers can
use its hardware on many of the UK’s most popular PVC
and composite systems with immediate effect. Winlock’s
testing programme covers outward opening casements,
single doors, French doors, composite doors and flush sash
windows. Profiles covered to date include;Veka/Halo, Linear,
Deceuninck, Synseal, Eurocell, Swish, Kommerling and the
new Profile 22 Optima system.