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Uncategorised 18 January 2013
ARGE WG C meets in Paris on December 11, 2012
The WG C met in Paris on December 11th, 2012. It was convened by Pierre Vilain. Major topic was the discussion on how to prepare DoPs for Harware Products in accordance with the CPR, the CEN Consultant and the NAtional Authorities. In between WG C presented templates of DoPs for 3 certain product types with…
Uncategorised 18 January 2013
ARGE WG C, Subgroup "Sustainability" meets in Paris
The SG Sustainability met on 10th December 2012 in Paris. The meeting was convened by David Whitworth. David lined out the status of the activities, including the results of a questionnaire between the members. It was decided to go on finding soulutions facing the “Sustainability of buildings” matter from the point of view of the…
Uncategorised 25 October 2012
Review of the 60th ARGE General Meeting
ARGE would like to welcome a new executive to the board: Mr Hans Weissenboeck. Hans is from Austria but represents the Swiss Association. He attended his first ARGE Conference in Budapest in 1993 when he was general manager of Grundmann GEGE (Austrian manufacturers of cylinders and locks). He continued as general manager after the merger…
Uncategorised 19 October 2012
Tell us what topics you would like to see discussed in the ARGE Forum…
The ARGE Forum is a new platform for members and external audiences to discuss issues and opportunities that are of interest to them. The Forum will feature articles by leading figures within or connected to the locking and security industry, and will give a platform for other people to add their own comments or observations…
Uncategorised 19 October 2012
Why change the ARGE website?
The need to improve the website was recognised as early as 2010, and was driven by a number of practical difficulties with the existing site. The existing site was difficult to edit Content such as text and photographs could not be added by ARGE The only option was to work through the web designers This…
Uncategorised 18 October 2012
Review of the Lectures of the ARGE 60th Conference
The lectures took place this year on a cruise ship sailing from Finland to Sweden. The themes of the lectures were on Sustainability and The Construction Products Regulations. The guest speakers were both from Scandinavia. (Scandinavia itself being the relevant place to hold these lectures, due to the fact they have always placed a high…
Uncategorised 03 October 2012
ARGE Annual Conference 2012 on Baltic Sea
This week ARGE’s 60th Annual Conference takes place. We will be sailing through the Gulf of Finland and across the Baltic Sea, from Helsinki to Stockholm on Thursday 13th September 2012. On Thursday the General Meeting will be held at 16:30 with Elections, Presentations and Reports. Jorma Siren ARGE Chairman will discuss the progress and…
Uncategorised 17 September 2012
ARGE forges alliance with E.D.S.F.
The European Federation of Associations of Locks and Builders Hardware Manufactures (ARGE) and the European Door and Shutter Federation e.V. (E.D.S.F.) will be working closely together in the future. Both European associations will from now onwards be supporting each other in their activities. A Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to this effect was signed in mid…
Uncategorised 13 March 2012
New technical list of CEN terms and acronyms
Alessandro Brunelli ARGE’S Technical Consultant has produced a brief but informative list of CEN Terms and Acronyms. This can be found in the Resources section of the ARGE website. To help use decide what would be most useful we request that you e-mail z.quinlan@arge.org if you would like to have access to the technical reports…
Uncategorised 12 January 2012
ARGE joins EDSF Symposium on “Fire & Smoke“
EDSF deals with fire resistance requirements for emergency exits and doors on escape routes. It mirrors the work of TC/127/WG3 where EXAPs are produced. These are application documents evaluating the fire resistance of those door- shutter / hardware combinations, which are not covered by the product standards. The EXAPS are also standards of origin supporting…