APRIL 2017 | 23
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A look at Winlock
over thirty years:
1987
Established by Lowe & Fletcher Ltd.
CELEBRATING
30 YEARS OF
INNOVATION
UK door and window hard-
ware manufacturer Winlock Se-
curity is celebrating 30 successful
years of business.
Established in 1987 in Telford,
Shropshire, Winlock Security Ltd is
the only remaining volume manu-
facturer of window handles in the
UK. Since trading began, Winlock
has made and sold more than
25million window handles. This
is over 5,500 tonnes of metal, and
equates to twice the weight of the
steel in Blackpool Tower. Laid end
to end the handles would cover
the distance across the Atlantic
from England to the USA.
The company’s longest serving
employee is Diane Roberts. She
has been at the Telford factory for
43 years, back when the business
was a different outfit making
camlocks and locking cylinders for
cabinet locks, lockers and garage
doors. Diane joined in the celebra-
tions and said: “I’m so proud to
work with such a fantastic group
of people - hardworking, driven,
creative and great fun. I hope we’ll
all be here for the next 30 years.”
The Telford-based business
prides itself on being dynamic,
forward-thinking and solution-fo-
cused and its desire for innovation
has intensified rather than dimin-
ished over its three decades in
business. Whilst the scope of the
known hardware world is argua-
bly already covered by the compa-
ny, its drive to innovate is inherent
as demonstrated by the news that
Winlock will be unveiling over ten
brand new SKUS in 2017 alone,
the first being the Trimas 3-star
cylinder.
“It’s an exciting time for Win-
lock,” said Winlock Security Ltd
managing director Alan Parker.
“We have, and will continue
to heavily invest in developing
unique products and unrivalled
services which will set Winlock
and our customers not only apart,
but more importantly ahead of our
competition.
“We are prepared to fill prod-
uct and service niches that our
bigger competitors are unable or
unwilling to meet. If a customer
has a problem, we want to provide
the solution. Over our 30 years
of trading we have formed strong
unions with many key hardware
suppliers and our partners include
Imperial, Kenrick, GU, and Yale.”
Winlock designs, develops,
produces and supplies across the
gamut of door and window hard-
ware from handles, locks, cylinders
and hinges, to vents, patio locking
systems, strikers and security de-
vices and specialises in providing
innovative door and window hard-
ware including timber, aluminium,
PVCu and composite applications
to UK and European fabricators.
The range includes the Stronghold
range, which features the patented
extending deadbolt throw, or so-
called ‘slam shut’ function.
1989
A Royal Visit. Prince Philip tours the
Winlock factory and plants tree.
1992
Manufactured their millionth window handle.
2000
Behind lock and key! HM Prison Wormood Scrubs orders
2000 units per year of the Custodian window handle.
2004
A warehouse was introduced to keep up with rising demand.
2006
Winlock added door & patio door hardware to its product range.
2013
Winlock acquired by Alan Parker (previous MD of Heywood
Williams Group), Michael Davidsen (co-founder of Mila)
and Harry Budhrani (owner of Imperial Hardware Asia).
December 2013 – expanded premises in
December with 21,025sqft warehouse.
2015
A rare and venomous Huntsman spider believed
to have travelled 5000 miles from Taiwan was
found in a container delivered to Winlock Security.
2016
Conducted 30 different tests to PAS024 (2012)
to ensure compliance to Document Q.
Summer 2016 – Launched Deltalock and Lifetime Concealed
ranges and announced partnership with Ingenious.
2017
Announced launch of 10 new SKUs including the Trimas range.