Door Industry Journal - Summer 2013

summer 2013 THE door industry journal By now you should all have seen our brand new website. If not, please visit www.dhfonline.org.uk . I hope you find it useful, informative and easy to navigate. It is much more user-friendly than our previous site and it has been designed to attract visits from specifiers, builders and homeowners. For you, the DHF member in particular, I hope it proves to be a valuable resource. It is designed to provide you with both expert technical advice and marketing support to enable you to derive maximum commercial advantage from your membership of the DHF. This new website, coupled with the Quality Assured Standards, will now give us the platform to develop better commercial benefit for our members. The message is simple ... using a product or service from a DHF member is the best way of ensuring that you are keeping on the right side of the law and keeping up to date with the latest standards, including the new Construction Product Regulations. So whether you are an architect, builder, facilities manager, homeowner etc the safest way is...... Don’t doubt it - DHF it! Talking of standards, if you have not already done so, can you please make sure that you complete and sign your Declaration of Conformity form and return it to Tamworth. If you need any help, please don’t hesitate in contacting us at Tamworth. A final comment, CE marking of many of our non-fire products is now compulsory. The law came into force on July 1. CE marking is a legal obligation .... but it also brings you business benefits. There is a wealth of information and practical help on CE marking on the new DHF website and we keep adding CE marking advisory material, so do keep on visiting the new website. Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk welcome USEFUL CONTACTS DHF Secretariat The Door and Hardware Federation T: 01827 52337 F: 01827 310827 E: info@dhfonline.org.uk DHF PR Agency Ainsworth Public Relations Guy Ainsworth T: 0161 427 3861 E: guy@ainsworth-pr.co.uk Garage Door Group Jointly chaired by Julie Chester & Simon Hipgrave Chairman of the Industrial Door Group Alan Jenkins Chairman of the Metal Doorset Group Bill Duncombe Chairman of the Hardware Group David Whitworth Chairman of the Timber Doorset Group Amanda Haley Chairman of the Powered Gate Group Andy Holz Advertising and Editorial Door Industry Journal PO Box 508 Warninglid Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 5GY T: 01444 464147 F: 01444 464148 E: mail@doorindustryjournal.co.uk Design Agency Freelance Design & Graphics Warninglid Lane Warninglid West Sussex RH17 5TQ T: 01444 461796 F: 01444 461596 E: info@freelance-design.co.uk The Door Industry Journal is a trade publication edited and produced on behalf of The Door and Hardware Federation (DHF). Content is collated from articles and press releases supplied by the DHF and their various industry group members, in addition to non-member companies and other external contributors. The content covers these sectors of the door and hardware industry: industrial doors, garage doors, doorsets, fire and security, building hardware, ironmongery, locks and powered gates. Companies selling to the any of the above industry sectors wishing to find out more about advertising or publishing articles in the Door Industry Journal should visit our website at www.doorindustryjournal.co.uk to download our advertising rate card. This document provides full details of the advertising rates and the associated technical data required to place advertising or editorial in The Door Industry Journal. Alternatively, to obtain further information, discuss your advertising requirements or to enquire about special features and advertorials, please contact the editor, Derek Hibbart at the Door Industry Journal on 01444 464147 or by email at editor@doorindustryjournal.co.uk . Door Industry Journal is a trading style of Avalon Innovations LLP. Company No. OC364751 Bob Perry, Executive Chairman, Door and Hardware Federation 3 Follow us on Twitter @DoorIndustryJnl Front cover image kindly supplied by Garador