Clearview Midlands April 2014 - Issue 149 | Page 92

MOVERS&SHAKERS

AVOCET SETS SIGHTS
ON MIDLANDS
WITH PASKIN
APPOINTMENT
Bi-fold specialist
expands its team
Bi-fold specialist TWR Trade
Frames has added a new National
Sales Coordinator to its team.
Tracey Ogden will head up
the company’s dedicated bi-fold
support service, administer sales
enquiries and provide technical
product customer support.
In 2012 TWR Trade Frames
officially launched its bi-fold
support service, helping installers
enter the lucrative bi-folding door
market.
The scheme proved a huge
success and the company aims to
build on its progress with Tracey’s
appointment.
TWR’s MD, Terry Richardson,
comments: “We will be rolling out
a major new initiative in 2014,
to build on the success of our

bi-fold support service. Tracey will
be integral to this and is already
making a big difference. “Tracey
adds: “TWR has outlined very
exciting plans for the years ahead
and I am delighted to be part of
them.”
In 2013 TWR invested in an
in-house powder-coating facility,
ensuring faster lead times on
aluminium windows and doors.
TWR manufactures the eternAL
aluminium bi-folding door, a rebrand of the Smarts Visofold 1000
and 4000 series providing excellent
thermal efficiency, high-spec
security features and super-slim
sightlines.
Tel: [phone],
www.twrtf.co.uk

Avocet Hardware has appointed
Karen Paskin (pictured) as
its new business development
manager for the Midlands.
The Brighouse-based company
is currently seeking to re-establish
its position as the leading player
in the home window and door
security market and sees business
development roles as a key part of
its future success.
Dr Tinkle Jain, a director of
Avocet Hardware, said: “Our
aim is not just to return Avocet
to the market leading position it
once held, but to eclipse this and
become the company to turn to
for all home window and door
security needs.
“To do this we need the very
best people pushing the business
and its products forwards and
Karen’s knowledge and experience
in retail and field sales, and as a
key accounts manager is the ideal
mix for this kind of role.”
Karen’s career started in the
early 1990s, selling windows
into the retail market for

Staybrite Windows. She then
went on to work across a range
of different markets in field
sales roles, prior to becoming
a key account manager for
grouphomesafe.Commenting on
her appointment, she said: “This
role combines the best elements
of sales and account management
and as such presents me with a
challenge that I’m delighted to be
given and am passionate about
making a success of.”
http://www.avocet-hardware.
co.uk/ or call 01484 711700.

Neil Sampson is new Chairman of
DHF’s ‘Powered Gate Group’
Green Gate Access Systems Managing
Director, Neil Sampson, has been selected
as Chairman of the Door and Hardware
Federation’s ‘Powered Gate Group’.
The Group was formed in 2009 in
response to requests from the Health and
Safety Executive (HSE) The HSE sought an
industry-wide trade body that would develop
higher standards of safety for automated gates,
following a number of fatal accidents since
2007. The group represents manufacturers,
suppliers, installers and maintainers of
powered automatic gates, who demonstrate

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their credentials of quality, safety and
adherence to the high technical standards
requ ired.

“I am delighted to have been offered the
Chairmanship of the Powered Gate Group and
look forward to representing the organisation’s
appeal for total safety in our business sector.”
said Sampson, 40, who founded Green Gate
Access Systems in 2006. “There are two ways
in which to install a powered gate – safely and
unsafely. The rules are very clear. I welcome
the campaign for further awareness and tighter
regulations in the industry and look forward
to upholding the PGG’s hope that no further
deaths occur as a result of poorly fitted and
ill-considered gates.”

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