Door Industry Journal - Winter 2013

winter 2013 THE door industry journal Standards - and more precisely Raising Standards - are at the heart of the DHF. In that respect below is a copy of a letter which I sent out to all DHF members in October. The message is simple...no further words are necessary. Dear member The DHF Mission Statement is “Deliver commercial benefit to members by raising standards”. To achieve this, we must ensure that our members are operating within the law and are also abiding by our own DHF Quality Assured Standards. The Machinery Directive has been operable since the mid 1990s and the DHF Quality Assured Standards have been in existence since April 2012. Given these timescales, I am sure you will agree that it is unacceptable to allow any DHF member to operate outside the law, or not comply with our own standards. It is now apparent, often as a result of a visit by our DHF audit inspector, that some members fall into this category. Therefore, we are at a stage where certain members will be suspended and subsequently have their membership terminated. Clearly, we do not want to lose members. However, we cannot continue to allow members to operate illegally or outside our own Quality Assured Standards. To do so would undermine our message to architects, specifiers and the general public. The principal commercial objective of the DHF is to generate more business for its members and that must be underpinned by an assurance that all DHF members are complying with the law and our own federation standards. I hope very much that you will agree with our course of action and support us in this process. Should you have any queries, then please do not hesitate to contact me. 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 Breezemount Electrical and Hydraulics Limited