Clearview South December 2013 - Issue 145 | Page 33

compositedoors NO NEED TO PANIC FOR COMPOSITE CUSTOMERS! Force8 has had its range of composite panic doors independently assessed and certified. The news from Force8 comes as the latest report from Palmer Market Research announces that composite doors have taken the lead over PVC-U panel doors in the domestic entrance door market. MD Dennis Sumner and the entire Force8 team consistently strive to stay one step ahead, and the certification of the company’s composite panic doors demonstrates a determination to offer a high spec safety option for every sector as composite doors continue to grow in popularity. The Stockportbased fabricator is one of the first companies in the industry to have undergone stringent, independent testing and had its doors officially certified by BuildCheck. Dennis Sumner explains: “With the added safety features of a Panic Door, it is necessary for them to be independently audited and separately accredited to ensure the highest safety standards are adhered to. “All the Panic Doors we supply have their DoP (Declaration of Performance) and have passed the numerous inspections required by law. Here at Force8, we have been providing Panic Doors for more than five years now and we use the best quality VEKA materials.” Learn more about Panic Doors, Fire Doors and more at www.force8.co.uk. VEKA plc, 01282 716611, www.vekauk.com, [email protected] IMPROVED RANGE OF COMPOSITE DOORS Polyframe Composite Doors has recently made some significant improvements to its composite door product range. Since starting to manufacture the Calder Collection range of composite doors in January the company has gone from strength to strength, with sales far exceeding the initial forecasts. Key to this success has been the range of options available to customers and to maintain this momentum Polyframe has added more choices. The range has been enhanced with the addition of 1 new door style, 3 colour choices, 2 glass designs along with outer frame, hardware and threshold additions. ‘Key to this success has been the range of options available to customers’ Peter Dyson, Polyframe Sales Director, stated, “The new additions to the composite door range will enable us to move to the next level as a composite door manufacturer. We have added Grey, Cream and Chartwell Green colour options, along with black on white outerframe, a new door style – Stainland and two exciting new glass designs. We have also added a low PVCu threshold and new colours for hardware to the range. This means that we can now offer 23 door styles, 14 decorative glass designs, ten colour choices and six hardware colour options. A comprehensive offering that we are confident will cover all options that our customers require.” New composite door products launched Decorative Door Products (DDP), the specialist division of RegaLead that provides added value solutions for composite doors was delighted to showcase for the first time at the RegaLead Open House new additions to the company’s successful DoorColourTM range. Visitors were amongst the first to witness a brand new water-based, sprayable wood grain effect paint system, which was a real show stopper. Already widely employed in North America and Canada, the materials have been specifically designed for use with GRP faced doors, and Decorative Door Products now has exclusive distribution rights for the UK and Europe. The initial To read more, visit www.clearview-uk.com range will comprise of eight new colour options including Mahogany and Irish Oak alongside the industry standard Golden Oak and Rosewood. Guy Hubble, Joint Managing Director of RegaLead comments: “It’s important to us to keep driving up the quality of composite doors by providing high quality solutions for their decoration and market research clearly points to colour and finishes popular in timber doors as being one of the key drivers in customers choosing retail composite doors. “Customers who have trialled the new DoorColourTM offering have already seen success, in particular with the heritage colours, and we believe that the extended range of woodgrain effects will prove equally popular.” DEC 2013 33