Door Industry Journal - Summer 2015

Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk powered gates GATE SAFETY CONFERENCE CONFIRMS GUEST SPEAKERS ASO Safety Solutions are teaming up once again with EasyGates to hold a third Gate Safety Conference on Wednesday 14th October 2015 at The Village Hotel, Dudley. The event will take place during the DHF’s Powered Gate Group, Gate Safety Week and will include guest speakers from across the industry addressing the ongoing issue of gate safety awareness. EasyGates Managing Director, Tony Daniels-Gooding said: “Following the success of the last two conferences, ASO Safety Solutions and EasyGates felt it was the ideal time to host a third event. The conference is designed to give a comprehensive and up to date overview of the progress made so far and ongoing developments and changes in the industry. ‘It also offers an opportunity for businesses to find out how they can play an active part in developing the safe and legal future of gate installation and supplies.” A number of guest speakers are now confirmed for the event including Stuart Charles from the HSE, Nick Perkins from DHF, Neil Sampson from PGG and Helmut Friedrich from ASO Safety Solutions. Gate Safe, Nsi and EasyGates will also be speaking. “We anticipate a high volume of interest in attendance at the conference and feel it is relevant and beneficial to a number of sectors including installers, manufacturers, architects, specifiers and property managers.” To register your interest in attending the Gate Safety Conference on Wednesday 14th October please visit www.gate-safety-conference.co.uk and scroll to the bottom of the page to complete the ‘Register your interest’ section. EasyGates are ASO Safety Solutions UK competence partners, supplying a number of the core safety products to the UK marketplace and providing quality, safety and technical service to a wide range of customers. www.gate-safety-conference.co.uk NO POWER: NO PROBLEM! GREEN GATE ACCESS SYSTEMS LAUNCHES UK’S FIRST SOLAR BARRIER KITS Kent based company, Green Gate Access Systems, has launched the UK’s first solar-powered car park barrier systems. The kits – manufactured by Italian company, O&O, of which Green Gate Access Systems is the UK importer – have been described as a ‘UK solution for the UK market’ and are the only solar kits developed in the UK to operate in the UK – all year round. The O&O Up & Down barriers are perfect for operation from solar-power where a green solution is required or a mains supply is not readily available. Often, providing power is the most expensive part of fitting an access control barrier, but the solar option allows security to be fitted to the most remote locations. The standard solar panel will operate the barrier up to 100 times a day and can be upgraded to 950 operations – in a British winter! The solar systems also assume each barrier will be fitted with a GSM intercom and exit loop as standard and are rated to cover this in the solar calculations. “These solar-powered barrier systems add a completely new dimension to the UK security market.” said Managing Director, Neil Sampson. “Having already proved their worth with clients such as BT, DHL and the NHS, they are perfect in remote or shared power locations and can be upgraded to suit even the busiest entrance. Supplied with everything that’s required, including solar panels and a four year warranty, the kits are a massive cost saving when mains is more than 50 metres away. We have continued our solar expertise into our range of solar gate automation with a section of ram and underground automation with 10 year warranties that can be operated up to 200 times, per winter day.” For further information and trade pricing on the solar-powered barrier and gate kits, please see Green Gate Access System’s latest 2015 trade catalogue on the homepage of their website - http://www.solarbarriers.co.uk 111 THE door industry journal summer 2015 Solar and wind combination charging system Simple solar charging gate system O&O Up & Down Solar Barrier