The likely answer to that question is ‘Yes’. Easter is just about the busiest time for Garden Centres and here at Bonwyke we’ve spending a considerable amount of time (most of it out of hours) in a well known national chain helping them deal with the heat that inevitably occurs under so much glass and plastic.

This particular Garden Centre had Silver 20 (in the photo) in the restaurant area and will be having Coolkote fitted to the main retail area to reject the heat from the roof area. the end result being a much more comfortable environment for your Garden Centre shopping experience.

Here at Bonwyke towers our manufacturing team are always weeding. Weeding is used to describe the process of removing the unwanted part of a manifestation after its been cut out by one of our plotters. This can be painstaking intricate work where you MUST pay attention to detail. Something we’re pretty good at here. Below is a good example of an intricate manifestation that required a high level of workmanship to ensure the excellent design was applied uniformly. Painstaking work, but with a quite wonderful outcome.

 

Happy Christmas from us all……

Here we all are at the end of the year again and looking forward to the Christmas break. We, at Bonwyke, would like to take this chance to thank everyone for their custom this year. We hope that you all have  a great time over the Yuletide break and we wish you all a prosperous New Year for 2015.

Office hours….

Our offices will be closed from midday on Wednesday 24th Dec and re-open again on Monday 5th January. Our last date for any product orders will be 16:00hrs on Tuesday 23rd Dec. As usual, at this busy time of the year, the courier services are at full stretch so we ask that you give some thought to pre-ordering your film a few days in advance, to avoid any potential disappointments with product arrival.

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year…….

 

 

Leading the way with externals

Under the HanitaUK partnership Bonwyke held the first of our external film accreditation days at our Fareham HQ. Hanita Coatings’ European Sales Manager, Leon Davids, flew in to help deliver the day, alongside our own Technical Slaes Director, Nik Sandars.

The day was run as two sessions delivering both practical and technical background to nine dealer companies in attendance. Leon gave everyone the background thinking from Hanita on just why they have developed industry leading warranties and new formulations for construction.

“Hanita researched with global glass manufacturers to gauge where the window market is going over the next 3-5 years”. Leon continued “it won’t be long before any internally installed solar film will negate any advantages being made in the glass manufacture and become obsolete for installation to new glass.”

Nik picked up the theme by saying “HanitaUK intend to become the industry leader in the UK for supplying external film technology”, Nik took this further by saying “Hanita Coatings have developed externals films with upto 15 year warranties which argue against the higher cost for external applications. The performance advantages for installing film externally is obvious and make for a far better solution over that of internal application in most cases.”

Accreditaion certificates were awarded at the end of the seminar and a big thank you goes out to those dealers who were prepared to committ to the time to learn about the great advantages of using Hanita advanced technology.

For further details on external window films please call us on 01329 289621 or email us at sales@bonwyke.co.uk

 

 

As part of Bonwyke’s increased partnering with Hanita Coatings, HanitUK were invited to attend the company’s global conference held the week before Christmas in Israel.

Both Chris George (MD) and Nik Sandars (Sales Director) attended the three day gathering, which saw many of Hanita’s global distributors participate. Representatives from China, South Korea, Australia, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Brazil, USA all made the journey and a very productive time was had by all.

The conference majored on show casing Hanita’s superb range of external grade films with industry leading warranties, some as long as 15 years for externally applied films. Also highlighted was the use of their spectrally selective product range, linked closely with the Energy Efficiency program they are running on a worldwide basis.

It was also great to see our guest speaker this year as Daryl Smith from The International Window Film Association, IWFA. Daryl spoke for over an hour bringing everyone upto speed on the work being achieved behind the scenes with many of the major film manufactues and the glass industry in general.

We were also lucky enough to attend Hanita’s 30 year celebration evening with the whole Hanita ‘family’. All of the employees, their families, customers and shareholders were invited to a giant food fest and evening’s entertainment. Top of the bill was an ‘Oscar’s night’ spoof delivered by Leon and Danny, giving great credit to the staff who have worked so hard for Hanita over the years.

Congratualtions to Oved Shapira (CEO) and everyone at Hanita for putting on such a smoothly run week and for introducing us to so many great people from around the world.