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Jeff Pearson , Sales and Marketing Director at Jack Aluminium talks about working with fabricators who think outside the box and create some truly individual projects using Jack ’ s commercial aluminium glazing systems .
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I REALLY LOVE FINDING NEW USES for things that are already lying around the house , the office or even the car . It really shows how ingenious we can be when we ’ re faced with a problem . I mean , who was the first person to use a pair of tights when their car fan belt failed ? Or to use a safety pin to re-thread a lost drawstring in a pair of football shorts ?
One of the best things about visiting customers and talking to them about what they ’ ve been up to is hearing about some of the unusual projects they work on and how they come up with ideas to use existing products in different ways . Not only is it interesting to see how they have adapted our system for a project , but it also gives us real insight into what installers are being asked for .
Fabricators know what they ’ re doing and they combine that knowledge with real ingenuity to come up with some very clever ways to get exactly what they want . These individual projects are amazing and we love to get involved and help manufacturers make the most of our system benefits for these applications .
One customer , IDF Aluminium created some fantastic internal office partitions using our shopfront system to give an industrial look to top fashion retailer , Fred Perry ’ s HQ . For an architect ’ s office refurbishment project , they utilised the ‘ clip in plate and ladder ’ curtain walling system internally to create glass partitions that let in lots of light . More recently , Brighton Bi-folds have used our shopfront system to create a set of bi-fold doors and a folding window for an upmarket chip shop in Worthing .
It proves that there is real creativity in our industry as well as high-demand for bespoke solutions that use systems in interesting ways to get great results .
When we talk to other customers , it ’ s all about the specification and they ’ re on the hunt for commercial glazing products that offer top security , high energy efficiency ratings and great functionality so that they can put themselves forward to win high-spec projects . In public sector construction , there is an increasing focus being put on choosing products that offer these high specification values as well as being cost-effective and available on-site in plenty of time to stick to complex building schedules and tight deadlines .
At Jack Aluminium , we strive to create a service that helps customers to win these contracts – the impressive , ‘ I hadn ’ t thought of that ’ projects and the brilliant , ‘ specifications coming out of my ears ’ commercial jobs . We do it in several ways - improving speed of supply , developing products that offer better solutions for the highest specs and investigating ways to make manufacturing Jack Aluminium products an even more straightforward job .
Commercial projects are always running on tight deadlines and installers are usually reluctant to order their aluminium glazing products until the hole has been built to install them in . We ’ ve made the investment to ensure that we can hold large stocks and offer a seamless supply chain with very fast lead times . In fact , we can deliver aluminium profile coated in any RAL colour in as few as seven days .
For smaller , bespoke projects , we understand that fabricators might not need full profile lengths , so we supply in half and quarter lengths to reduce waste and costs . It ’ s amazing how many of our customers quote this as a reason that they value working with us .
As for our systems , talking to fabricators and working with them in development stages means we can deliver products that they need . That ’ s how we developed the TD68 Jack Door and more recently , the TruEnergy window , which uses clever value engineering methods to offer truly impressive energy efficiency . U-Values with double glazing reach 1.4 W / m2K and they get as low as 1.2 for triple glazed windows . We wanted to make TruEnergy an easy transition for window fabricators to make , so we made it simple to set up using a punch tool and made it compatible with PVCu hardware so they don ’ t need to hold extra stock .
We ’ ve all got one of those little tricks or ‘ hacks ’ that solve a problem and if more people thought like our fabricators and applied that style of thinking to their manufacturing I think our industry would be all the better for it .
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