JANUARY 2019 | 25
Security & Hardware
DEMAND GROWS FOR GREENTEQ
INNOVATIVE FOLDING HANDLES
Innovative SecuriFold and CentreFold
folding handles from VBH’s greenteQ
Clearline range are growing in popularity
among aluminium and PVC-U fabricators
due to their unique design. Both products
fold down vertically when not in use– a neat
feature that is proving appealing for aspira-
tional-style home improvements.
SecuriFold has been developed with
bi-fold and slide and fold doors in mind.
When stacking these types of doors in the
open position, sashes don’t fold back neatly
due to the projection of the door handle. In
contrast, SecuriFold folds snugly against the
backplate.
Alu-tec, part of the Climatec Group, has
recently increased its orders of SecuriFold
handles due to the growing demand. Jenna
Harrington at Alu-tec says: “SecuriFold is one
of the many innovative products that we use
from VBH when fabricating our aluminium
bi-folds and we know we can rely on their
technical and customer service support.”
The CentreFold handle stands off the face
of the profile by only 15mm, and is designed
Cubelock launches a
social media campaign
to keep children safe
Cubelock Triple Lock window safety
restrictor with Lock Safe Action
is at the centre of a social media
campaign to keep children safe.
The Child Accident Preven-
tion Trust website says: “Parents
often see falls from windows as
‘freak’ accidents, but the statistics
belie that view. In fact, nationally,
one child under five is admitted
to hospital every day after falling
from a building – often from open
windows but also from balco-
nies.”
Toby Staff Managing Director
at Newstar Door Controls, says:
“Parents don’t always realise that
there’s a simple solution to keep
children safe from falling out of
windows. There are still too many
accidents where children are in-
jured or killed, and we believe that
most are preventable by installing
window restrictors.
“That’s why we are highlighting
the issues on social media. We are
using positive images of children
– the Cubettes – to keep it in the
minds of parents, grandparents
and carers of children.
Cubelock can be installed on
all windows. The restrictor unit
can be installed vertically or
horizontally and is suitable for
PVCu, timber, aluminium or steel
windows. Cubelock Triple Lock
includes a super strong locking
bar. The distinctive cube design
gives it an attractive finish. The
clever product is from makers
Newstar Door Controls Limited,
the safety and security hardware
specialists.
https://www.capt.org.uk/news/
falls-from-open-windows
to work with a Clearspan intermediate door
lock on both AluK and Smarts aluminium
bi-fold door systems. The handle is part of
VBH’s PAS24 spec, and is used by Leeds
based Nordic Aluminium on their Clearspan
security bi-folds. Nordic regularly supply
these bi-folds for new build contracts as they
are fully Document Q compliant.
Both handles are covered by greenteQ’s
standard 10-year guarantee, and come under
VBH’s Q-secure approved scheme, the most
comprehensive security guarantee on the
market.
www.qsecure.co.uk
AVOCET’S DARK NIGHTS FOCUS
DRAWS INDUSTRY PRAISE
Avocet Hardware has received widespread industry
praise for its #StayHomeSecure dark nights campaign,
which was aimed at highlighting the annual rise in
burglaries during the period following the clocks going
back, while also positioning its ABS locks as the home
security product for homeowners to put their trust in.
The six-week campaign,
which saw the return of Ollie the
retired guard-dog, and the intro-
duction of his former nemesis, Kat
the burglar, saw Avocet reach over
two million social media users in
the UK.
The Brighouse company gained
over 1,100 new followers, and saw
its Twitter posts alone retweeted
over 4,000 times and liked 33,000
times. Astonishingly, the engage-
ment rate of its Twitter activity far
outstripped the global benchmark
of less than 1% - averaging over
6% for the entire campaign. Mean-
while, it’s paid for social media
activity also left the worldwide
standard in its wake – with close
to 1 in 5 of those who saw the
weekly Ollie & Kat competition
tweets either liking, sharing or
commenting on them.
One of Avocet’s key aims for
the campaign was to engage with
locksmiths, and demonstrate to
them the benefits of using ABS
locks.
The artwork that was up for
grabs featured Ollie – a guard dog
forced into early retirement – and
his former nemesis, Kat – an out-
of-work cat burglar. Both had end-
ed up on the scrap heap following
Ollie’s owners’ decision to install
Avocet’s snap secure ABS locks
on their home, and spent the six
weeks of the campaign trying out
a variety of new hobbies – all of
which tied in with events, movies
or TV shows that were popular
during the campaign period.
www.avocet-hardware.co.uk