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Sophisticated Access Control System Installed at Cheshire Care Homes
- 03/09/2009
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Smartair locks, online Update On Card (UOC) and offline readers supplied by Abloy UK provide an intelligent and cost-effective access control system at the new, 53-apartment Oakmere residential Extra Care development in Handforth, near Wilmslow in Cheshire. Installed by access control specialist Lock-tec (UK) Ltd, working in partnership with Chubb Fire & Security and MITIE, the Smartair access control solution includes stand-alone locksets on all apartment doors and selected internal doors.
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Abloy UK launches new generation range of coin locks to OEMs for locker applications
- 01/07/2009
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Leading security and access control specialist Abloy UK has launched a new range of ASSA coin locks, under the Unimille brand, for the OEM market. Comprising seven different models, the new locks have been specifically designed for security solutions across a wide range of locker applications. Strength and high security is integral to all seven models, which are manufactured using robust, durable and tamper resistant materials. Each model comprises a strong hook bolt and every lock is offered with a choice of a patented Desmo cylinder or standard 6-pin cylinder.
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Abloy UK Appoints Head of Product Management – Access Technologies
- 19/05/2009
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Russell Wagstaff has been appointed Head of Product Management – Access Technologies at high performance lock and access control company Abloy UK, part of the world’s leading lock manufacturer - the ASSA ABLOY Group. Russell commented: “Abloy UK is bringing a number of exciting new access control platforms and products to market this year. I am delighted to join such a prestigious company and I’m looking forward to helping the business maintain its position as a world leader in providing access control solutions.”
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Abloy UK Introduces Hi-O™ – the Highly Intelligent door operating system – at IFSEC Hall 3A Stand E10
- 05/05/2009
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As the access control environment becomes increasingly complex, with a multitude of products from electric locks to door operators expected to communicate with each other, Abloy UK introduces a groundbreaking new access control integration system, Hi-O™ at IFSEC 2009, 11 – 14 May.
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Abloy UK launches new solenoid locks for all kinds of door
- 30/01/2009
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Abloy UK, one of the UK’s leading security and access control companies, has launched a new range of push/pull function solenoid lock cases for a range of doors. The Scandinavian EL402 and EL502 lock cases have been designed for use in places with medium levels of traffic and no seal force or fire requirements – making them ideal for many businesses, public buildings, schools, universities and apartment blocks. The EL402 replaces the existing EL412 and EL413 as the ideal lock for slim-line doors.
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A Door Fitted with Abloy’s EL560
- 10/12/2008
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Innovative use of market-leading security products from Abloy UK is helping to provide a complete security solution for Devon & Somerset Fire Service. The organisation’s headquarters in Exeter has recently had a new wing added and long-term security partner, locally-based Guardian Security (South West) Ltd, was called into provide a complete solution encompassing both access control and locking.
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Royal Holloway’s Huntersdale Building in Egham, Surrey
- 10/12/2008
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Smartair locks, Update On Card (UOC) readers, a portable programmer and ARX access control technology, all supplied by Abloy UK, have been integrated to provide an intelligent and cost-effective access control system at Royal Holloway, University of London. Specified and installed by Rochester-based NT Security, the seamlessly integrated package controls and monitors staff, student and visitor access through interior and perimeter doors at Royal Holloway’s Huntersdale administration building in Egham, Surrey.
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Conducting an Access Control Survey Along High Speed1
- 10/12/2008
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Preventing unauthorised access to key buildings and equipment along the 24-mile (39 km) second section of the High Speed 1 – Southfleet junction in Kent to St Pancras International in London - is a vital security and safety requirement for Network Rail (CTRL) Ltd, the operator of High Speed 1, Britain’s first high speed railway in over 100 years.
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Abloy's New Swing Door Operator Really is the Strong Silent Type
- 12/11/2008
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A highly innovative electro-mechanical swing door operator with a built-in door closer that closes the door silently is the latest new product from leading security and access control company, Abloy UK. The Abloy DA461 draws upon the strengths of the ABLOY door operator range and has a new clutch design and more fixings for quicker and easier installation. It now also works with ‘swing control’, allowing more comprehensive and detailed programming of factors such as opening force and opening speeds, to suit exact site requirements.
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Abloy UK Gets Handle on Latest Door Products
- 13/10/2008
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Leading security and access control company, Abloy UK, has launched a new range of attractive yet durable handle sets to complement its acclaimed line-up of electromechanical locks. Combining contemporary styling with meeting the stringent EN179 standards, Inoxi long-plate lever handle sets are manufactured in stainless steel and are also approved for use on fire doors to standard EN1634-1.
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Abloy UK Supplies Access Control Equipment For London University
- 09/10/2008
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Smartair locks, Update On Card (UOC) readers, a portable programmer and ARX access control technology, all supplied by Abloy UK, have been integrated to provide an intelligent and cost-effective access control system at Royal Holloway, University of London. Specified and installed by Rochester-based NT Security, the seamlessly integrated package controls and monitors staff, student and visitor access through interior and perimeter doors at Royal Holloway’s Huntersdale administration building in Egham, Surrey.
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Abloy Range Proves Guardian of Security
- 24/09/2008
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Innovative use of market-leading security products from Abloy UK is helping to provide a complete security solution for Devon & Somerset Fire Service. The organisation’s headquarters in Exeter has recently had a new wing added and long-term security partner, locally-based Guardian Security (South West) Ltd, was called into provide a complete solution encompassing both access control and locking.
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Security in the SME Workplace
- 16/09/2008
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In the current economic climate, an SME (small to medium enterprise) has to fight to be successful and the diverse constraints on its business can prove hard to survive. Day to day issues often take precedence over matters such as building security which is rarely front of mind, except when it is breached. However, the prevalence of identity fraud and theft today means it is vital to ensure the protection of a building from both unwanted visitors and trespassing members of staff.
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Comprehensive Range of Electric Locks
- 06/09/2008
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Sophisticated electronics combined with high performance mechanical lockcases make electric locks suitable for use in high security areas, within access control systems and also in conjunction with door operators - to provide hands-free functionality. Leading high-performance lock and access control solution supplier Abloy UK, provides installers with a one-stop solution to meet this multitude of applications, with its extensive range of standards-compliant motor and solenoid locks from ABLOY.
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Controlling Access to High Speed 1 Infrastructure
- 03/09/2008
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Preventing unauthorised access to key buildings and equipment along the 24-mile (39 km) second section of the High Speed 1 – Southfleet junction in Kent to St Pancras International in London - is a vital security and safety requirement for Network Rail (CTRL) Ltd, the operator of High Speed 1, Britain’s first high speed railway in over 100 years.
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Abloy UK Appoints Market Development Manager to Strengthen High Security Markets
- 20/08/2008
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Abloy UK, a leading security solutions provider, has appointed a Market Development Manager to strengthen and increase the growth of its high security markets. Tom Jenkins joins the company with 27 years of experience in the security industry. A master locksmith by trade, Tom has previously been a customer of ASSA ABLOY – working as a locksmith and specialist installation engineer, and progressed to project manager for a number of high profile, high security organisations in London.
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New Multifunctional Motor Locks
- 10/06/2008
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Abloy UK has introduced two new motor locks especially developed for applications with dual safety and security requirements, such as one and two-way access controlled fire doors, fixed time controlled entrance doors and emergency exit doors. With mechanical and electromechanical functions that can be set during installation, the versatility of ABLOY’s EL590 and EL490 motor locks makes them a valuable addition to the high performance security and access control solutions company’s product range.
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Simple but Powerful RFID Access Control
- 29/05/2008
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A robust, flexible and easily installed RFID access control system has been introduced by access control and high performance locking specialists, Abloy UK. Smartair employs the latest contactless technology and is a scalable, computer-managed system that can cost-effectively control access through just one door or a complete suite of internal and external doors. Each door has its own battery power source and built-in reader that identifies the user’s card and opens the lock - subject to it having the necessary access rights.
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Quality and Durability Key to Hospital Security
- 13/05/2008
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High performance access control products have been at the heart of the security and safety regime at Ninewells Hospital, located on the western outskirts of Dundee, since it opened in 1974. Today, over 57,000 doors at the hospital, which is part of Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust and serves 400,000 people in Tayside and the North East Fife region of Scotland, are fitted with an ABLOY ® product.
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Abloy Launches New Range of Cabinet Locks
- 07/05/2008
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A new, secure and simple to assemble range of cabinet locks suitable for a wide range of applications - including office furniture, cabinets, lockers and display cases - has just been launched by security and access control specialist, Abloy UK. Stylishly designed, the ABLOY VEGA range has patented cylinders, strict key control and the option of several million masterkeying key combinations, which makes them ideally suited for the most demanding applications.
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Increased Security & Improved External Access with Lock & Panel Bar
- 03/05/2008
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The ABLOY EL520 Exit Kit is a new, innovative BS EN1125-compliant mortice lock and panic bar combination that enables speedier and easier external access through a secured panic exit door. Historically, most panic bars fitted onto panic exits did not have any form of external access control. This meant that the only way to gain access was by manual key over-ride, which was impractical for many multi-user facilities.
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Access Control for the Everyday SME - Innovation from Abloy UK on Show at IFSEC
- 19/04/2008
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Leading security and access control company, Abloy UK will be showing a host of new products at IFSEC 2008 - including an access control product specifically aimed at SMEs.
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New Operator for High Traffic,Heavy Doors
- 20/03/2008
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Specially developed for use in demanding high traffic applications such as front doors in public buildings, Abloy Security has launched a new, power open power close door closer, the Abloy DA460. Abloy DA460 door closer digital image available The versatile DA460 can be used on pivoted internal and external, non-fire rated doors and has a selection of programmable functions that provide total door control in both the opening and closing cycles.
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Access Control System Launched to Installers
- 08/01/2008
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High performance locking and access control specialist Abloy UK has today [2 January 2008] launched Smartair electronic locks, an off-line access control system ideally suited to smaller sites, initially to a hand-picked selection of the country’s top installers. Abloy UK commercial director Tabitha Morton explains the thinking behind this novel launch strategy:
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High Performance Door Automation Solution at Royal Victoria Hospital
- 03/01/2008
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Negative air pressure and extremely high usage patterns at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast lead to a rigorous eight-month, on-site trial before MB Architectural’s Access Control division selected automatic swing door operators supplied by Abloy Security. As part of the multi-million pound redevelopment of the Royal Victoria Hospital, nearly 200 doors throughout the hospital were identified as requiring high performance automatic swing door operators.
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Southern Water Upgrades Security and Safety at Sites
- 19/12/2007
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Southern Water provides clean water to two million domestic and business customers in Hampshire, Kent and Sussex, and is also responsible for treating the waste water produced by more than four million customers. Maintaining tightly controlled access to their 300+ clean water and 370 waste water treatment sites is an operational imperative for the Worthing-headquartered utility, which has used locks and access control products from Abloy UK since the early 1990s.
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Sophisticated Access Control System at Doncaster Education City
- 10/09/2007
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Access through 558 doors located on five levels at three Doncaster Education City buildings is securely and safely managed using the Abloy Security ARX access control system. Installed by security systems integrations specialists BLE Security as part of a £500,000 contract, this intelligent, TCP/IP-enabled system controls approximately 150,000 access and egress events each year made by 30,000 RFID smart card-holding students and 1,200 staff.
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Abloy door operators fitted to bi-folding doors
- 10/09/2007
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Following a health and safety directive from their London head office, the management of the Leonard Cheshire care home in Littleborough, near Rochdale initiated work to ensure that residents’ bedroom doors automatically closed when the fire alarm was operated. The unusual bi-folding nature of the bedroom doors at the home presented a particular challenge for Northwich-based architectural hardware and security systems installer Lock-tec, who where called in to provide a safe and effective door closing solution.
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Electromagnetic Locks to Lose their Attraction when EuP Directive Adopted
- 04/09/2007
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The lower energy requirement of multi-function electric locks is set to prompt a significant shift away from electro-magnetic locks when the UK adopts the Energy-using Products (EuP) Directive 2005/32/EC – which is anticipated to happen in 2008.
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New Operator for High Traffic, Heavy Doors
- 03/09/2007
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Specially developed for use in demanding high traffic applications such as front doors in public buildings, Abloy Security has launched a new, power open power close door closer, the Abloy DA460. The versatile DA460 can be used on pivoted internal and external, non-fire rated doors and has a selection of programmable functions that provide total door control in both the opening and closing cycles.
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Open platform access control solutions
- 28/08/2007
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Geoff Seddon, Access Control General Manager at Abloy Security, explores the benefits that non-proprietary TCP/IP access control solutions offer integrators, end-users and specifiers. Historically, some manufacturers used to embed their own access control solutions within closed operating systems, making it very difficult for customers to go anywhere else when they needed additional products or wanted to upgrade their access control system.
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Abloy Security secures Emirates Stadium
- 14/11/2006
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High performance electrically operated locks, strikes, electro magnets and handles, supplied by Abloy Security, secure office, retail, function room and private areas throughout the new 60,000-seater north London home of Arsenal Football Club, Emirates Stadium.
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