www.ggpmag.com January 2020
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NEWS
Send for reinforcements
Turfed out in the cold
In brief
• Senior Architectural
Systems is celebrating after
winning one of the top prizes
at the Construction Marketing
Awards for the successful
launch of the company’s rst
ever Aluminium Day.
The manufacturer was
presented with the ‘Best
Social Media Campaign’
award in recognition of the
online event that was hosted
by Senior back in March 2019.
Aluminium Day was launched
in order to raise awareness
of the versatility of the
metal, from its popularity as
a building material and use
within the food manufacturing
industry to its role in transport
and aerospace design, as
well as celebrating the
success and skills of those
who work with the material.
The campaign is reported
to have reached a wide and
varied audience – with the
#AluminiumDay hashtag
being used in four different
countries and seen by nearly
200,000 people.
Plans are now underway for
the next event which will held
on Friday 13 March 2020.
According to Senior, the date
itself, the 13th day of the third
month, gives a nod to the fact
that aluminium is the third
most abundant metal in the
world and its atomic number
is 13.
Senior’s marketing manager,
Jonny Greenstreet,
commented: “The rst
ever Aluminium Day was a
huge success and helped
to generate some great
conversations across a variety
of social media platforms.
It was great to see so many
of our customers and supply
chain partners joining in and
using the hashtag to get their
own messages out to a much
wider audience.”
Anglo European has announced
that it has received a series of
independent test approvals on its
PVC-U window and door galvanised
reinforcements.
Conducted by Build Check,
testing is said to have found
that reinforcement options
from Anglo European matched
requirements set by Rehau, Veka
and Liniar, for reinforcement –
with weathertightness tests fully
compliant with BS6375-1:2015.
Completed at the end of
November, the series of independent
assessments also found that both
of the coating grades offered by
Anglo, which include GZ275UK
and GZ140EU met reinforcement
performance criteria set out by the
three leading systems companies.
“We’re here to give fabricators
options,” said Paul Sullivan,
managing director Anglo European
Group. “The independent test results
that we have got back from Build
Check reaffi rm what we’re doing and
demonstrate that the reinforcement
we supply is equal to that supplied
by systems companies, meeting
and exceeding all of the criteria
performance that they’ve laid down.”
This means that across Rehau,
Veka and Liniar, Anglo European
can offer its customers access to
reinforcement options fully tested
to BS6375-1:2015, including air
permeability tests in line with BS
EN 1026:2016; water tightness to BS
EN 1027:2000; wind resistance tests
to BS EN 12211:2016; and exposure
category classifi cation in accordance
with BS 6375-1:2015 (clauses 6, 7
and 8).
This is in addition to pre-existing
approvals on Deceuninck and
Swish and the 10-year guarantee
offered by Anglo European on all
steel reinforcements it supplies
– regardless of which of two
galvanised steel coating options they
choose, GZ275UK or GZ140EU.
All reinforcements supplied
by Anglo European are also
manufactured in DX51D tensile
strength steel – which is said to be
exactly the same grade used in the
reinforcements supplied by Rehau,
Veka and Liniar.
With independent testing ongoing
with BuildCheck on other systems,
including Eurocell, KBE Profi ne and
Profi le 22, Anglo has said it expects
to be able to announce further
approvals in Q1 this year.
Paul said: “We offer a standard
reinforcement at a standard tensile
strength and grade of DX51D –
exactly the same as the one supplied
by Rehau, Liniar, or Veka. And
then we give our customers the
choice of either a GZ275UK, again
as used by systems companies or a
GZ140 option, which is coated to a
European standard.
“Whichever option they choose,
reinforcement complies with
BS6375-1:2015. And whichever
route they go down, we can supply
it cut-to-size, reducing wastage,
eliminating labour overheads and
cutting out handling costs.”
Modelling by Anglo shows that
its customers are already saving
anywhere up to £200,000 a year by
buying-in cut-to-size reinforcements
direct, rather than going through
their systems companies and cutting
their own product. This is available
in lead times of only three-days from
point of order.
“It’s been our message from
day one,” Paul continued. “As a
fabricator you can go direct, buy
your reinforcement from us, already
cut to size, immediately taking
out labour, and wastage from your
business. It’s an instant win.”
A cold November night saw 10
Veka UK employees join the annual
Turf Sleepout to raise funds and
awareness for three regional charities
tackling homelessness.
Fundraisers braved the low
temperatures on 15 November to
sleep pitchside at the Burnley FC
Ground for the benefi t of Burnley
FC in the Community, Emmaus
Burnley, and SafeNet Domestic
Abuse Service for Jane’s Place
Women’s Refuge.
The Veka team beat their
fundraising target of £2,500, with a
total so far of £3,320 (and counting).
This is the second consecutive
year that Veka UK marketing
director, Dawn Stockell, has taken
part, saying: “Last year, around
50 people joined in the fi rst Turf
Sleepout which occurred during
Storm Callum. This year was slightly
drier, but we defi nitely needed to
wrap up in our warmest coats! 65
people spent the night pitchside to
raise funds to tackle homelessness,
and together we raised over £25,000.
“What can I say - it was cold and
uncomfortable! But that’s precisely
the point, isn’t it? We were sponsored
to do this for just one night, and it’s
heartbreaking to think that people
go through this every day. The
homelessness statistics across the
UK are extremely alarming, and the
North West is no exception. That’s
why my colleagues and I were proud
to come together and do our part to
help three fantastic charities in the
valuable work they do to combat this
situation.”
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