Blue Diamond adds style and finish to fixings

12th February 2011
Posted By : ES Admin
Blue Diamond adds style and finish to fixings
When you are a leading supplier of sliding wardrobe systems together with window and door products to the new build industry, ensuring you have a reliable supplier of glass door handles, hinges and latch systems is critical to your business. So when supplies started to falter, fast action was required to find an alternative supplier.
Blue Diamond has many years experience in the design and sourcing of engineering components and assemblies in a variety of materials. Nevertheless, this particular project presented a number of challenges for Blue Diamond’s design engineers. Fixings in glass are notoriously difficult to engineer and manufacture. Glass is a heavy material and the tolerances are critical. In addition, all the visible components had to be polished or plated to complement the clean lines of the glass. The finished parts also needed to be strong and robust, and have the right ‘feel’ to be consistent with a top quality modern and stylish product.

The engineers and designers at Blue Diamond worked closely with the customer to develop and agree the new design - meeting all the mechanical and aesthetic requirements as well as durability. The complex designs required a range of cast and pressed components, springs, metal and plastic parts, some of which had to be plated or polished. Based on their experience designing similar components, Blue Diamond’s engineers were able to improve the assemblies by enhancing their appearance, reducing cost and increasing durability.
All drawings were originated by Blue Diamond using their advanced CAD based system and prototypes sourced for testing and appraisal. These were sourced by Blue Diamond from approved suppliers in low cost base countries and following evaluation of the design and testing of the samples, the new handles, hinges and latch systems were accepted immediately for volume production.

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