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Advance is a new high performance, precision engineered hardware range from Mila – with every product designed and manufactured exclusively for the aluminium market.
This ‘advanced’, forward-thinking range launches in October, starting with a magnetic hold open system for bi-folds, complete with patented self-aligning technology. More Advance products are set to follow – all with clever design features, and all with Mila’s reassuring guarantees on quality, value and stock availability.
Richard Gyde, Mila’s Managing Director, is confident that Advance brings something new and exciting to the aluminium hardware sector:
“This is the first time that we’ve focused on the aluminium market and we’re doing something very different to the ‘me too’ products which have predominated over recent years.
“Every product in the Advance range has been designed to solve a particular problem that aluminium fabricators encounter with their existing mechanical hardware solutions, and each will represent a step change from what has gone before.
“Crucially, the range challenges the preconception that aluminium hardware has to be premium priced to deliver premium levels of innovation and quality, so we’re expecting high levels of demand.”
Mila’s Advance range has been in development for almost two years and during that time Mila has been working with some of the leading aluminium systems companies and fabricators to deliver innovative solutions to their hardware challenges – particularly around bi-fold and sliding doors.
Richard added: “Our design team, led by Product Design Director Paul Pearson, have applied the same clever design thinking which has helped us build our reputation in the PVC-U market to aluminium, and there is lots of ‘only from Mila’ technology in these Advance products – much of which is already being patented. Our Technical Director Strafford Cooke has also been working directly with customers to ensure that they are as easy to fabricate as our PVC-U products and that they meet all the most testing quality criteria.
“The feedback we’ve already had is that we’re bringing something truly ‘advanced’ to aluminium fabrication and that our ‘dedicated to aluminium’ approach is really refreshing.”
Mila already supplies a comprehensive range of door furniture products for aluminium windows and doors and, with the launch of Advance, will be able to offer fabricators a complete one stop shop for aluminium and PVC-U.
