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Just a few items to keep you updated with what we
have been up to in the last month.
| On the Road |
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Recently Profix attended the East Durham Homes Annual
General meeting to meet residents and offer support to the
organisation and the construction partners. The event was a
great success allowing residents to meet the manufactures
behind the supply chain and provide valuable feedback on the
partnership. Profix get actively involved with this type of
support and also gives presentation of product and service as
part a scheme proposal or bid supporting the Main Contractor
and Landlord.
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| A touch of colour |
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Need a coloured product? There is an
alternative to aluminium. Profix have just completed a
refurbishment of the Coach House in Hayden Hill Glous for
M-Tex developments. The project incorporated the installation
of 42 PVCu windows with an external ivory finish while
maintaining the standard white inside. The performance was
enhanced with Plani- Therm glass with decorative lead finish
to maintain the aesthetics of the original building. This
method can also be used in commercial applications such as
offices and warehouses and offers considerable saving over
aluminium while giving the performance of PVCu.
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| Standard range gains BS7950 and saves
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During recent test the technical team engineered a new
window based on the Profix trade window with a view to reduce
the cost of a security accredited product. With the help of
the supply chain partners a range of hardware and improved
reinforcing rules gained Profix a revised BS7950 security
kitemark accreditation on the standard product. This
investment will give massive saving to users of the security
product and has rationalised the hardware range through the
supply chain giving further savings.
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| Grey is the New Black |
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 Profix has introduced a new grey weatherseal that has been
designed specifically for their 2800 Series product range. The
grey gasket is the result of over twelve months extensive
research in close collaboration with both the supplier and
their customers. The outcome is an innovative weatherseal that
is far less intrusive thanks to the improved positioning and
new ‘invisible’ grey colour, giving more glass appearance to
the window. The gasket is rolled in as part of the extrusion
process, which ensures consistent quality and reduces
fabrication time. Manufactured from thermoplastic elastomers –
a mixture of rubber and thermoplastic particles – the
weatherseal is extremely high performing and is totally
weldable. Deceuninck’s Fenestration Product Manager, Stefaan
Valette stated, “Deceuninck Group have a constant policy to
continually innovative with leading products. The grey
weatherseal follows the trend towards softer finishes and
works well with the new warmer white colour adopted by the
3000 Series. Whilst aesthetically pleasing, the weathseal is a
high performing, technically advanced product and its fatigue
and dynamic properties can cope with a wide temperature range
of between –20ºc up to 50ºc. ” The grey weatherseal is
available on white and light foil products with a traditional
black gasket being used on dark foils.
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Profix gains CHAS
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As part of the Profix commitment to development of the
business and the practices it adopts the company recently was
accredited into the Contracts Health & Safety Assessment
Scheme. The purpose of the CHAS scheme is to provide
assessment criteria that health and safety professionals (or
other officers/consultants acting on behalf of an
organisation) can apply to the health and safety element of a
select list application. The scheme assesses adequacy and
compliance of the health and safety policy statement,
organisation for health and safety and specific arrangements
to a single, common standard acceptable to CHAS members and
users. Selecting contractors who have demonstrated these
standards goes some way to ensuring, so far is reasonably
practicable, compliance with health and safety law. Clearly,
participation in the CHAS Scheme and applying its standards to
the pre-qualification process for selection of contractors
will address a number of issues for both employers and the
companies whose policy and arrangements are being assessed,
namely: • provide an initial element of compliance with health
and safety law (to assess competence); • avoid duplication of
effort for both employers when assessing applications and
companies making multiple submissions; • overcome
inconsistency in assessment with some companies being assessed
as compliant by one employer but not others
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