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UNITED ANODISERS LIFETIME GUARANTEE

 

UNITED ANODISERS

United Anodisers is the world’s leading architectural and industrial anodiser. With an annual capacity in excess of 20 million square metres, United Anodisers offers the world’s largest range of anodised finishes and colours.

In 2007, United Anodisers brought together the complementary, but highly distinctive expertise and experience of coil anodising and batch anodising in a single group

COIL

With operations in Belgium and Germany, Coil is the world’s largest continuous anodiser, a process giving consistent and highly cost effective anodising in full coils of architectural aluminium. Full details are available at www.coil.be

LHT

LHT, based in Uxbridge, is the world’s largest producer of Anolok II Grey colour finishes. With 30 years experience in interference colouring, LHT have processed almost 1.0 million square metres of Anolok II grey for hundreds of buildings in the UK and Continental Europe. Examples of these building can be seen at www.lhtanodisers.co.uk

HMF

HMF, based in Huddersfield, has the largest processing facility in the UK with the ability to process extruded section up to 7 metre in length and sheet to a depth of 2 metres in Natural and Anolok Bronze. HMF featured in the new Wembley Stadium as well as many other prestige buildings. Please visit www.hmfltd.co.uk

 

Together these operations make United Anodisers the largest anodising group in the world, capable of producing anodising for a wide range of markets in an unmatched spectrum of colours.

Group turnover for 2008 was 29.2 million Euros.

BENEFITS

The benefits of this new group to the users are many and include:

With these extra resources, and as part of our new sales and marketing strategy, we commissioned an independent report to review the field performance of our group products against our competition – painting, and the independent report found the following important facts: Anodising outperforms paint significantly in terms of:

After long service life where group anodising products have been exposed to aggressive environmental conditions, the report found no instances of corrosion, chalking, or fading and, where a building has been neglected, abrasive cleaning has restored the building to as new condition.

On painted product, instances of all these faults were observed and, of course, because painting is much softer than anodising, any neglect cannot be reversed.

The finding of our site survey can be found on our new website – www.unitedanodisers.com

These results confirm the benefits of anodising over all forms of painting, the major ones being:

Proven durability

Anodising has been used on building since the 1930’s and buildings older than 50 years show good performance. The independent survey confirms no degradation whatsoever on the sites surveyed. This is not the case with paint.

Fade resistance

Our anodised products do not fade. The painted product does and is guaranteed to do so.

Adhesion

Anodising is integral with the metal. It cannot peel crack or detach in any way from the treated surface. Paint can.

Abrasion resistance

Anodising is harder than glass. Buildings, which have been neglected, can be restored to virtually as new condition by abrasive cleaning. This is not possible with the painted product.

These are only a selection of the many benefits available by choosing anodising over painted products. To view a more comprehensive document on the benefits of anodising over painting please see our website- www.unitedanodisers.com

GUARANTEES - A NEW CONCEPT – A LIFETIME GUARANTEE

There has been much confusion in the market place over recent years concerning the guarantee period of various finishes. Painted products which offer a 40 year guarantee do not meet the current British standard BS 6496. Indeed painting guarantees, if carefully read, would worry, rather than reassure, most specifiers.

With the results of our recent site surveys United Anodisers are now pleased to offer a “Lifetime Guarantee” on all our products. This guarantee is not maintenance dependant, as is the case with all competitive products. A draft can be viewed at www.unitedanodisers.com, together with a comparison to the painting alternative.

NEW PRODUCTS

As you can see the new resources of this powerful Group are already bringing value to the specifier and to assist further we would recommend a visit to our new website www.unitedanodisers.com for more information.

We shall be contacting you over the next few months to discuss the benefits of dealing with United Anodisers. We have further exciting new products in the pipeline as a result of our considerable research and development resources. This full array of various new products will be launched in 2009.