Door Industry Journal - Winter 2013

Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk industry news 13 THE door industry journal winter 2013 ALUTECH GROUP INCREASES PRODUCTION CAPACITY WITH NEW EXTRUDED PROFILES FACTORY The ALUTECH Group of companies has doubled its production capacity of aluminium extruded profiles. AluminTechno, the factory that manufactures the extruded profiles, has just completed the construction of a second extrusion plant. Four more new workshops were added to the current ones; a workshop for extrusion moulding, an anodizing plant, a powder-coating facility and a new area for packing of aluminium profiles. The total production capacity of the factory now totals 45-48 000 tones of the extruded profiles per annum. The new workshop for extrusion moulding includes two lines of 7 inch presses allowing a substantial expansion of the product range. Now AluminTechno consists of 6 extrusion lines: two 5 inch presses, three 7 inch presses and one 9 inch press. The launch of the second anodizing workshop increased the total capacity by 10 000 tones of anodized profiles per annum. The new line is fully automated and equipped with machines from one of the leading suppliers of anodizing equipment in the world. The new powder-coating line is twice as productive as the current one. Two independent chambers for powder-coating make it possible to powder-coat two batches of extruded profiles in different colours simultaneously. The automatic logistics system has contributed greatly to increase of the production capacity. It unites the extrusion moulding and powder-coating workshops, aging ovens, anodizing line and stillages used to hold stocks of product. Two new packing lines for the finished goods were launched to process 40 tonnes of the profiles daily. The packing cycle of the lengths is only 22 seconds. Quality of the extruded profiles meets the highest requirements of standards DIN17615, EN 755-1, EN 755-2, EN 12020. The quality of powder-coating meets the standards required by the Swiss certificates Qualicoat/Seaside, and Qualanod. INGERSOLL RAND ANNOUNCES FEEDBACK DATA PARTNERSHIP Leading global provider of security and safety solutions Ingersoll Rand has announced a new partnership with Feedback Data to further enhance the trade distribution of Ingersoll Rand’s time and attendance biometric hand reader, HandPunch. Feedback Data is a well-established UK based manufacturer and distributor of time and attendance terminals and software utilities in workforce management for companies operating in complex environments such as hospitals, food manufacturing, and high-end retail. The specification of the HandPunch supports Feedback Data’s existing time and attendance portfolio and will be distributed throughout its extensive trade partner network. The HandPunch uses geometry biometric technology to improve the accuracy of time and attendance and eliminates the possibility of “buddy punching”, the practice of employees clocking in other colleagues who are not at work. Rather than identify users by means of palm prints or fingerprints, the HandPunch registers the size and shape of an employee’s hand and stores it in the system as a unique string of numbers. Paul Taylor, UK Sales Leader EAC of Ingersoll Rand, said: “We are very pleased to be working with such an established time and attendance manufacturer as Feedback Data. As companies look to better manage labour costs and improve operational efficiencies, automating time and attendance management is a key area for direct cost savings. Through our partnership with Feedback Data, we will be able to share our biometric solutions with a wider audience and pro-actively develop the time and attendance marketplace.” Mark Bird, Managing Director of Feedback Data, said: “We pride ourselves on being able to provide the latest in time and attendance technology. By working closely with Ingersoll Rand, we will be offering a system which provides benefits over other biometric systems through the use of hand geometry and, if deployed properly, can deliver a payback of less than nine months.” For more information on Ingersoll Rand please visit www.ingersollrand.co.uk.