Door Industry Journal - Spring 2015

10 THE door industry journal spring 2015 industry news Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk ALUTECH - ROLLING AHEAD AT R+T STUTTGART - THE COMPANY VIEW The Alutech Group of Companies, including Gunther Tore received some significant attention at the recent R + T exhibition. Alutech were one of the 3 main sponsors of the exhibition with banners and advertising around the venue. In 2015, the geographical spread of visitors to the exhibition has expanded to 125 countries, including the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Oceania, North, Central and South America. Their roller shutter stand, demonstrated the complete range of insulated roller garage door components, typically supplied to local manufacturers to manufacture their own shutters. Alutech are proud of their long history of manufacturing extruded and insulated garage door components and enjoy a very good reputation for product quality and innovation in the UK and European markets. Many new products were shown; these included a ‘Hurricane’ shutter that is designed to withstand very high winds in exposed locations. Manufactured from twin skinned extruded aluminium profiles, with a cleaver method of end locking the lath to prevent it from being blown out of the guides. Due for launch during 2015 are some new colours for 77mm foam filled garage door lath, recognising the trend for pastel shades, these include Chartwell Green and Graphite. Graphite is especially interesting in that it will be one of the few metallic effect laths that are available for garage doors. From customer feedback, lock rings for 70mm octagonal tube have always been an issue by marking the inside of the door curtain. Alutech have developed an auto-locking ring that is coated with a material that reduces friction between the ring and the curtain, almost eliminating the marks that appear over time. The same ring is now made in two parts making it really easy to install, and especially useful for repairs, as the barrel now doesn’t need to be dismantled - you just simply clip the rings onto the barrel in-situ. For samples of the new colours, auto-locks and rings or further details on how easy it is to manufacture roller shutters, please talk to JD (UK) Ltd., who are the official Alutech distributor in the UK on 01924 472 924 or email steve@jdukltd.co.uk. RECORD TURNOUT AT R+T BENEFITS ALUTECH’S UK DISTRIBUTOR R+T Stuttgart recorded record visitor numbers in all halls. Alutech one of the 3 main sponsors of the exhibition enjoyed prime positions in not 1 but 2 of the halls benefitting from the rise in visitor numbers. Steve Hudson MD of JD (UK), responsible for the Alutech in the UK, commented that “Alutech decided to hold two prime positions, firstly to support their customers in the Roller door area of the exhibition and secondly an equal size stand in the sectional door hall. Each stand received over 5000 visitors, many of them being prospective new clients”. A number of UK customers visited Steve and his colleagues on the Alutech stands, Laurence Bird, MD of LBS commented that “I had heard of Alutech and JD but didn’t realise the depth of product range, in particular that JD (UK) stocked in the UK a full range of extruded aluminium lath, guide, hood and end plates to manufacture continental type window security shutters”. Gunther Tore, part of the Alutech Group, was prominent in both Roller door and Sectional door stands, demonstrating their record breaking industrial insulated roller shutter door products, and sectional doors. Based and manufactured in Germany Gunther Tore have a long history in their home market and are working with JD (UK) to offer their product through JD for the UK market. The highlight of the show where Alutech are concerned was the unveiling of the new Trend door, with class beating insulation values and a unique spring cover profile, it offers a genuine alternative to the traditional manufactures, by combining quality with aspects that are different. Busy Alutech stand at R+T Punched aluminium shutter