Jackloc are currently showcasing its work at the SIB Build International Construction Exhibition in Siberia. It is one of the largest such events in the country, attracting over 17,000 visitors and 800 exhibitors from 19 countries each year. 

Jackloc has already started expanding into the international market, with orders from as far afield as South Africa, Mexico, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Malaysia.

 News of the latest overseas deal comes at a time when many British manufacturing companies are feeling the effects of the current economic climate and the country’s export figures are falling.

 Emma Wells, Director of Jackloc, said: “We are very pleased and proud to have secured this new deal. “We saw a six per cent increase in sales last year and we are delighted to be developing our export market in a product manufactured here in the Midlands.”

 Jackloc has achieved its international success with the help of advice from UK Trade & Investment, the government department which works with UK-based based businesses to ensure they succeed in international markets.

 International trade advisor Richard Burchell said: “We helped Jackloc with issues such as language, translation and the ways of doing business in Russia.

 “So they now have the experience and a model to work from which can be transferred to secure business in other countries.

 “We have a lot of success in helping small and medium enterprises. You don’t have to be a large business to export – you just need to have a good product and a stable company.

 “In fact, due to the slowdown in construction in the UK, a lot of companies who supply that sector are looking to export and spread their risk.”

 Jackloc recently won a contract to supply Jackloc restraints to be fitted to all windows in Leicestershire County Council’s  care homes, to improve safety and security for their elderly and vulnerable residents.

 Jacklocs are fitted in buildings all over the world, including care homes, hospitals, schools, hotels, student accommodation and high-rise flats.

 For further information please contact Emma Wells or Judith Burrows on +44 (0) 1455 220616 or visit www.jackloc.ru

Jackloc are delighted to be in further stores of John Lewis, for parents, grandparents and family to consider the dangers of unrestricted windows, when considering nursery equipment, as we know it is not long when babies start to crawl and become a toddlers, how easy it is for them to venture.  Jackloc is not a substitute for adult supervision, but one of peace of mind.

Please speak to a John Lewis Nursery Advisor for further information.

 Jackloc restricts the opening of windows and doors, using a flexible cable attachment. Its ability to prevent incidents such as falls from windows, and intruder entries, was the reason Jackloc was selected for installation on every risk window in Leicestershire County Council’s care homes.

Using a flexible cable attached to the window frame and the opening sash, Jackloc allows a window or door to be opened no wider than the 100mm gap recommended by health & safety professionals; while a key can be used to release the cable, permitting wider opening when necessary. The Jackloc can easily be retrofitted to any type of window or door frame, whether made of wood, UPVC, aluminium and steel.

The decision to specify Jackloc for the Leicestershire care homes was an easy one for Andy Hollingshead, health and safety senior adviser  for Leicestershire County Council, who comments: “As soon as I was shown Jackloc, I was convinced it had a vital role to play in protecting residents, and in preventing accidents in buildings across our region. It is such a simple, low cost invention, but it has a major positive impact, that I can see it becoming a recommended fitting for most windows in the future.” With Jackloc fitted, elderly and vulnerable residents can enjoy the benefits of having windows open, while care staff can be sure there is no possibility of anyone accidentally falling out of an open window. Additionally, at ground floor level, Jackloc can also provide protection against intruder entry.

Jackloc is building a growing national and international reputation for its capabilities. Already well established in the care home sector across the UK, Jackloc already features as a vital safety fitting in an increasing range of buildings, from hotels to schools, hospitals, student accommodation and social housing.

Available within John Lewis Nursery section, please speak to a John Lewis Nursery advisor for further information.

At Jackloc, we are continuing to grow and have now moved to bigger office premises at Alma Park, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire.

The Jackloc Company Ltd

A Shropshire domestic safety product supplier recently celebrated five years of trading with a city council community initiative, a relationship that has seen the company make a positive contribution to crime and burglary reduction in Leicester.

Telford based Jackloc Company Ltd first approached Leicester City Council (LCC) in 2003 with the aim of introducing its Jackloc™ window restrictor, originally designed to stop young children from falling out of wide-open, second-storey windows or above. However, the council had secured a series of funding streams through SRB (Single Regeneration Budget) and NRF (Neighbourhood Renewal Fund) to undertake crime prevention projects.

Mick Carr, who has worked on LCC’s crime and community safety initiative for the past seven years, explains: “Organisers of our first scheme CRASH (Crime Reduction and Safer Homes) were seeking a number of solutions to secure residential property for council tenants or private home owners, in specific areas throughout Leicester. Jackloc’s timely arrival complemented the range of products we were looking to install. Since then LCC has undertaken additional projects under guidance from and in cooperation with Leicestershire Constabulary’s crime prevention unit, fitting Jacklocs as part of a total security package in residential homes, sheltered accommodation and hostels, as well as helping young families through the Sure Start scheme. The product has brought relief to vulnerable elderly people in particular, who were worried about opening their windows for fear of burglary, even during the daytime. As a result, the window restrictor allowed fresh air to circulate through the house during spells of hot weather whilst at the same time providing them with peace of mind.”

Deborah Allbutt, MD at The Jackloc Company Ltd, said: “LCC are a superb advocate for Jackloc and the work Mick and his team are doing is setting a precedent for other councils to follow. The feedback received through LCC’s customer surveys, where 98% of people with Jacklocs fitted felt safer, has resulted in us promoting the additional security feature of the product.“

Speaking at the end of an intensive, six-month installation programme that saw Jacklocs fitted to every window – bedrooms, corridors and other areas accessible to guests – across Travelodge’s 300-plus estate, Facilities Manager, Mike Lea, said that Jackloc had been installed “to remove any shred of doubt about guest safety.”

“More than 70 per cent of our windows were already fitted with restrictor mechanisms but guests could easily tamper with them and even by-pass them completely and posed a clear risk to their safety. Fitting Jackloc restrictors removes that risk because they are robust and cannot be by-passed,” he said.

Several accidents in recent months involving falls from windows in hotels, including that of a guest who miraculously survived a fall from the 17th floor of a hotel in Minneapolis, have highlighted an issue that rarely grabs headlines yet results in scores of serious injury accidents and several deaths every year in the UK.

It’s an issue that the Health & Safety Executive has examined in the past but up-to-date statistics are difficult to come by and figures for the number of falls from windows are often combined with more general “falls from height” statistics.

More than 100 hotel guests and employees were seriously injured in ‘falls from height’ during 2004 – 2005 and about a third of these involved falls from windows.

Jackloc director, Emma Wells, said: “Travelodge is one of the biggest and best-known hotel brands in the country and it’s a great feather in our cap.”

Jackloc will also be fitted in all Travelodge’s new hotels and others it acquires.

The Jackloc Company, has seen their Jackloc™ window restrictor installed at The Dream Hotel in Manhattan in a contract Schüco USA LP delivered for the New York Health Department (NYHD).

Describing the project details Patrick O’Connors, aluminium project coordinator at Schüco USA LP, said: “The Dream Hotel is a 1950s’ style building that’s been renovated and modernised and our brief was to maintain the design and artistic appearance from the era. A sloped facade with large five-foot circular windows required a standard solution to what otherwise would have been an expensive customised alternative. In fact, the windows would not have adapted well to a concealed device. The NYHD planning team readily accepted Jackloc’s surface-mounted, simplistic, stylish design, with the all-important safety requirement. The chrome finish option also added a very high tech appearance to the product, a feature that has also impressed the architectural community in which we operate. Schüco USA LP has a number of potential projects that the Jackloc would work well on – it is a simple and effective solution to a sometimes complex problem.”

Deborah Allbutt, MD at the Jackloc Company Ltd, said: “Jackloc has proved popular with top class hotels in the UK such as the Ritz and Claridge’s in London. Therefore, selection for such a prestigious project in the US reinforces its uniqueness and is a continuing show of faith in the product. We relish the association with such a well respected worldwide brand name such as Schüco and look forward to working together in the future.”

ENDS

For more information about the Jackloc Company Ltd, contact:

Emma Wells, director
Tel: 01530 249034 or 01952 210 883
Out of hours: 07966 848720
Email: sales@jackloc.com

For more information about Schüco USA LP/Schüco International KG, contact:

David Williams, Sr. Vice President Aluminum Division Schuco USA L.P.
Tel: +1 860 616 0235
Email: DavidWilliams@schuco-usa.com

or

Tanja Brinks, Deputy Marketing Director
Tel. +49 521 783-425
Email: TBrinks@schueco.com

www.schueco.com

The main change to the new model is the addition of a steel ‘bullet’ cover that completely encloses one end of the restrictor cable, a change that the company says makes the new Jackloc virtually tamperproof.

Deborah Allbutt, who set up the Jackloc Company with her sister, Emma Wells, just three years ago, says that the changes made to the new Jackloc are a result of feedback from customers.

“Jacklocs have been fitted to tens of thousands of windows in a huge range of buildings – hotels, nursing homes, universities, hospitals etc – and those organisations have provided us with ideas and suggestions about how we can improve our product. The new Jackloc features some of the ideas that have come from customers,” Deborah said.

Some of the biggest and best known organisations in the UK have fitted Jacklocs to their premises across the UK including the Travelodge hotel group.

In just the last few months the Jackloc Company has picked up a clutch of business and product awards including The Thomas Telford Award for Innovation awarded by a national newspaper group.

“It has been an amazing three years,” Emma Wells said. “We began as two working mothers with a good idea and now we have a product that is successful and widely seen as the best of its kind. The new model far exceeds the BS6375 standards and raises the bar higher still.”