AluK will have a big presence at the FIT Show 2025, demonstrating why it is increasingly the systems company of choice for aluminium fabricators and installers who want to strengthen and grow their businesses.

There will be plenty of new products on show for the first time, but just as importantly, lots of evidence of how AluK has set itself apart from other suppliers with an uncompromising package of product, service and support which priorities quality and value and is underpinned by commitments and promises that customers can really trust.

One of those commitments is on the transparency of AluK’s product performance, and the company has already set about differentiating its own accredited U-Value claims from many of its competitors.

Managing Director Russell Yates has said: “Fabricators who are blindly accepting the U-Value claims being made on aluminium sliders and bifolds from other suppliers in the market could be risking non-compliance with the new Part L and inadvertently misleading customers.

“Whether it’s down to naivety, lack of knowledge or simple errors in calculations, I am convinced that some of the claims being made by certain systems companies on their aluminium products are simply not achievable.

“This is not just a case of me knocking the competition, it’s a simple case of physics. AluK had to more than double the size of the thermal breaks in our new S140 sliding door compared with our original BSC94 in order to reduce U-Values from 1.8 to 1.4 double glazed and 1.1 triple glazed. Yet many of our competitors are fitting thermal breaks which are very similar to the BSC94 and claiming U-Values which equivalent to the S140. It just doesn’t add up.

“Our technical department has done a huge amount of work to evaluate the claims being made in the market and to try to establish whether other people’s thermal figures are being calculated at larger than allowable sizes and if they are third party accredited, but they haven’t got any clear indication on that yet.

“Arguably, fabricators could be doing more to educate themselves about compliance and asking more direct questions of their suppliers. But, in a post-Grenfell, post-Building Safety Act environment, they should really just be able to trust their systems company to do the right thing, as AluK is doing.”

Between now and next April when the FIT Show opens its doors, AluK will be talking a lot more about its support for customers and encouraging visitors to head to the show to get a taste of it for themselves.