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News Release from: Hoppe (UK) | Subject: PAS24 certification
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 March 2006
Hoppe (UK) receive PAS24 certification
Hoppe (UK) has just received Secured by Design (SBD) certification enabling homeowners to be as secure as possible.
Hoppe (UK), the leading supplier of door and window hardware, has just received Secured by Design (SBD) certification enabling homeowners to be as secure as possible Roger Benton, Joint Managing Director of Hoppe (UK), explains: "We invest heavily to ensure that our handles look great but there's little point in having a good looking handle if it doesn't do its job properly
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 11 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Hoppe (UK) has launched the ARRONE AR8300 series door closer to help fulfil two exacting pieces of legislation.
So we've developed our popular Tokyo handle to surpass the industry's most stringent door security tests.
The PAS24 test - established with the advice of Secured by Design, a scheme supported and promoted by the police - demands that doors, including door handles, hinges and locks, must withstand a determined three minute attack using tools an opportunist burglar might use.
Normally different handles are tested on each door, because they become so damaged they no longer work.
But Hoppe's handle survived three such attacks, one after the other as the same handle was tested on a timber, then a composite door and finally a PVC-U door.
It then survived a determined all out attack for a further seven to eight minutes on the PVC-U door before the tester gave up.
The PVC-U profile around the handle was wrecked and broken but the handle defeated the tester for a total of 16-17 minutes before he gave up.
This is unprecedented.
Roger continues: "Unlike other handles, which are thin and hollow and either cast or pressed metal with a small amount of reinforcement around the back of the handle, Hoppe's handle has a thick, solid aluminium back plate fixed with 6mm screws - not standard 4mm or 5mm screws which can snap.
The back plate will not break and withstands bending even using a crowbar, therefore protecting the cylinder itself from attack.
Later in the year we'll be launching a range of similarly impressive, additional security products and more security innovations are in the pipeline.
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