| Where one leading window manufacturer is | | | | could be bringing a potentially harmful substance |
| concerned, customers need only take a brief | | | | into their home. |
| glance at their website and the projects they've | | | | However, recent innovation has meant that |
| completed in the past to realise that they believe | | | | calcium organic stabilisers now offer an alternative |
| the most beautiful homes are those which match | | | | to lead stabilises with a comparative level of |
| their surrounding environment. It's clear then, that | | | | performance. This leading supplier has chemically |
| this firm aims to ensure this environment is | | | | tested the manufacturing process involved with |
| preserved and protected at all costs, which is | | | | these stabilisers to ensure they're practically lead |
| why they've refined their range of sliding sash | | | | free, all as part of their quality assurance |
| windows so that they contain virtually no lead | | | | programme. This has also enabled them to ensure |
| stabiliser. Not only does this help safeguard our | | | | that they still provide the same high quality PVC-U |
| world, it also offers health benefits for customers. | | | | windows that are expected of them. |
| In previous years, PVC-U plastics required the use | | | | This development is just the latest in a line of |
| of a lead based stabiliser to increase PVC-U's | | | | eco-friendly initiatives that this company has |
| longevity and dispose of the hydrochloric acid | | | | implemented. For example, they already recycle all |
| which is released by the material as time | | | | of the cut offs produced during the manufacturing |
| progresses. However, not only is lead a material | | | | process. |
| which is notoriously harmful to the environment | | | | This helps guarantee that none of the PVC-U |
| when disposed of, it can also pose health risks. | | | | used ends up in the ground. Add this, and organic |
| As plastic containing lead stabilisers ages, it | | | | stabilisers to this firm's already economical window |
| releases lead dust to the surface of the material | | | | designs and clients can rest assured that their |
| which can then be inhaled or ingested from | | | | sliding sash windows offer energy efficiency, |
| handling the item in question (window/door etc). | | | | exquisite styling and environmental preservation in |
| While normal use would not usually result in health | | | | a balanced composite blend that is simply |
| problems, the fact remains that homeowners | | | | unavailable elsewhere. |