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NEWS NEWSDESK: tel: 01923 437 618 mail: j.hatcher@turretgroup.com<br />
Somfy wins US<br />
industry award<br />
Somfy has been recognized as advancing the industry’s<br />
ongoing commitment to child safety in addition to their<br />
product, TaHoma Gateway, awarded Best New Style<br />
Concept in the Motorization and Automation category by<br />
the Window Covering Manufacturers Association (WCMA).<br />
The 30th Annual WCMA Product Awards<br />
recognized the best new products,<br />
educational, and merchandising programs,<br />
across ten categories, launched over the past<br />
year in the window covering industry.<br />
Somfy’s TaHoma was awarded in the<br />
Automation and Motorization category for<br />
its ability to control a wide range of interior<br />
and exterior motorized products and<br />
integrate with other modern smart devices<br />
through its open technology platform.<br />
Earlier this year, TaHoma was awarded<br />
gold in the Connected Home category of<br />
the 2021 Most Valuable Product Awards for<br />
Residential Construction by Products<br />
Magazine for its use of open, forwardthinking<br />
technology and the convenience it<br />
delivers to homeowners.<br />
In addition to this year’s product awards,<br />
the WCMA also recognized ten companies<br />
committed to child safety. Somfy North<br />
America, among those ten, was recognized<br />
for the inclusion of cordless or inaccessible<br />
cord operating systems in product designs.<br />
“Over the last 50 years, Somfy has been<br />
making life easier for millions of people<br />
across the globe and ensuring that our<br />
products are safe and long-lasting is a<br />
priority in our product development,” said<br />
David Parrett, Product Marketing Director,<br />
Somfy North America.<br />
“As we imagine the homes of tomorrow,<br />
we continue to deliver sustainable smart<br />
home solutions that improve life and wellbeing<br />
and TaHoma is an innovative solution<br />
that helps to create smarter and more<br />
comfortable homes. We are excited to see<br />
TaHoma awarded as an innovative solution<br />
that helps create safer and more convenient<br />
homes, improving life and well-being,” added<br />
David Parrett, Product Marketing Director,<br />
Somfy North America.<br />
TaHoma seamlessly integrates with a<br />
variety of leading smart home devices to<br />
brighten homes every day with natural and<br />
artificial light. Somfy North America's<br />
TaHoma gateway uses technology that's<br />
open and forward-looking, providing a<br />
single platform for Radio Technology Somfy<br />
(RTS), Somfy's exclusive control platform,<br />
which enables users to adjust motorized<br />
interior window coverings and exterior<br />
products from virtually anywhere. This also<br />
allows users to adjust automated<br />
applications and create scenes and<br />
schedules for motorized window coverings<br />
and other connected smart home devices<br />
to deliver a truly customized experience. A<br />
“Leaving Home” scenario created in the<br />
TaHoma App can lower the shades and<br />
switch off the lights, activated by voice<br />
command or with a click of a button on a<br />
connected smartphone.<br />
NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
<strong>Blinds</strong>hapers often wonder if when<br />
designing properties do the architects<br />
give any thought to how shaped<br />
windows will affect the occupants. On<br />
paper the plans can look absolutely<br />
fabulous but if light coming in affects<br />
those who live there it can become a<br />
huge problem, heat from the sun<br />
pouring in damaging carpets and<br />
furniture, reflecting sunlight from mirrors,<br />
pictures and screens as well as waking<br />
homeowners early in their bedrooms.<br />
<strong>Blinds</strong>hapers hear of these problems<br />
on a regular basis and via its trade<br />
partners seek to assist them in solving<br />
these problems with either vertical or<br />
venetian blinds. The company does no<br />
measuring or fitting ourselves so rely on<br />
companies to send us details of these<br />
shapes so we can advise them on what<br />
will work best for their clients. The<br />
company also refers any enquiries from<br />
the public on to whoever trades with us<br />
locally to them. It is more than happy to<br />
hold the hand so to speak of anyone<br />
who has never done any blinds like<br />
these before and advise them on how<br />
these should be done and paying<br />
attention to making them confident in<br />
what they are doing and ordering from<br />
us. <strong>Blinds</strong>hapers check through each and<br />
every order thoroughly before it is put<br />
into our systems and flag up any<br />
potential problems that may occur.<br />
4 <strong>Blinds</strong> & <strong>Shutters</strong> • ISSUE THREE <strong>2022</strong><br />
www.blindsmagazine.co.uk
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