Blinds & Shutters Buyers Guide 2023
Welcome to the Blinds & Shutters Buyers’ Guide 2023 the only UK directory for blinds, shutters, awnings and grilles. This is the essential guide for manufacturers, retailers and specifiers such as architects and designers, to source components and finished products. This edition of the Buyers’ Guide contains useful and practical information, such as the revised Glossary that starts on page 5. In the Year in Review starting on page 26, we take a look at the issues that dominated the headlines. On page 28 the Smart Buildings Show 2022, proved to be the biggest and best yet! Features on new products start on page 30, whilst the BSI revised some of the Relevant Standards, and this section can be found on page 113. The A-Z Section and Buyers’ Guide Section provides information relating to 450 businesses and 50 different product types. We hope that you find this year’s directory an invaluable aid to sourcing suppliers to provide the solution to your specific needs.
Welcome to the Blinds & Shutters Buyers’ Guide 2023 the only UK directory for blinds, shutters, awnings and grilles. This is the essential guide for manufacturers, retailers and specifiers such as architects and designers, to source components and finished products.
This edition of the Buyers’ Guide contains useful and practical information, such as the revised Glossary that starts on page 5. In the Year in Review starting on page 26, we take a look at the issues that dominated the headlines. On page 28 the Smart Buildings Show 2022, proved to be the biggest and best yet! Features on new products start on page 30, whilst the BSI revised some of the Relevant Standards, and this section can be found on page 113.
The A-Z Section and Buyers’ Guide Section provides information relating to 450 businesses and 50 different product types.
We hope that you find this year’s directory an invaluable aid to sourcing suppliers to provide the solution to your specific needs.
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FEATURE<br />
A Contract of Colour, Function and<br />
Sustainability<br />
Blind specification within the contract<br />
market continues to push the boundaries of<br />
window shading. As ecological and financial<br />
realisation continues to grow of the impact<br />
that the optimum shade can have on the<br />
contract environment, specifiers are refining<br />
their needs for innovative window covering<br />
solutions that balance specification, quality<br />
and energy efficiency.<br />
Decora has extended their selection of<br />
wider width fabric contract fabric offering to<br />
consist of 5 ranges. In addition to the 26<br />
Unicolour and Unishade fabrics, Unilux, the<br />
top selling contract PVC fabric has<br />
extended its offering to 2.5m and 3m wide<br />
fabrics. Available in 7 colours the wider<br />
width options increases production<br />
efficiencies and creates enhanced aesthetics<br />
within a contract environment, reducing the<br />
need for fabric joins. This popular 4 layered<br />
PVC fabric (3 ply PVC, 1 ply fibreglass) is<br />
perfect for contract environments, in<br />
particular schools, nurseries or within the<br />
health sector due to its easicare properties.<br />
Arona, a FR fabric produced from 80%<br />
recycled PET plastic has been introduced<br />
offering 18 colours in 2.5m roll widths and<br />
89mm vertical fabric. Sustainable fabrics<br />
have been a growing trend in the fashion<br />
industry for some time but demanded<br />
within the contract sector is seeing an<br />
noticeable increase. The ethos behind Arona<br />
was to preserve our environment by<br />
utilising recycled PET plastic bottles from<br />
ocean pollution and reuse as secondary raw<br />
materials. The eco-balance of such a process<br />
is convincing: energy and above all water<br />
consumption are much lower than<br />
conventional fabric production, a<br />
contribution to reduce our ecological<br />
footprint.<br />
Unicolour dimout and Unishade blockout<br />
continue to prove popular fabrics in the<br />
contract arena. Their versatility of being<br />
available across 3 roller widths 2m, 2.5m<br />
and 3m and 2 vertical widths 89mm and<br />
127mm presents optimum production<br />
efficiencies as well as the ability to produce<br />
wide width roller blinds without the need<br />
for a join.<br />
With Unicolour and Unishade<br />
contractors can avail of the dimout and<br />
blockout properties in the same<br />
complimenting colours enabling perfect light<br />
control management where necessary.<br />
Decora’s Uniview Collection is one of the<br />
most comprehensive screen offerings in the<br />
market. Openness ranges from a range of<br />
3% openness through to 1% and blockout<br />
with Univew Zero.<br />
Both 1% and 3% options offer a selfcoloured<br />
or white backed range enabling<br />
contractors to vary internal blind colour<br />
whilst maintain a uniform aesthetic to the<br />
exterior. Each Uniview range is available in a<br />
selection of roll widths, ranging from 1.83m<br />
to 3m wide, with the addition of Uniview<br />
3200 super fine presenting 89mm vertical<br />
fabric option.<br />
The colour palette for all contract fabrics<br />
ranges has been meticulously selected to<br />
ensure every tone is in line with the latest<br />
market trends for the contract sector,<br />
whether this be bold primary colours for a<br />
school or cool grey for a modern office<br />
environment.<br />
Contact your Decora Area Sales manager<br />
for further information<br />
32 <strong>Blinds</strong> & <strong>Shutters</strong> <strong>Buyers</strong>’ <strong>Guide</strong> • <strong>2023</strong>
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