04 April 2016
Blog Author: Accuride
I’m designing a kitchen in a studio flat and want to hide the kitchen behind tall doors. Any suggestions on the type of sliding door hardware I can use?
Using tall sliding doors in kitchen installations is becoming very popular...
16 March 2016
Blog Author: John Whittlesea, Technical support manager
Some full-extension (100% travel) slides can be flat (horizontally) mounted, but there will be a reduction in their load bearing capacity.
Typically this will reduce to 25% of the side mounted load rating.
For example, if we state that a...
03 February 2016
Blog Author: Accuride
Normally you would expect a telescopic slide to move in only one direction.
For example, a drawer is usually opened from just one side. But a 2-way travel slide allows that drawer to be opened from both the front and the back of the...
17 November 2015
Blog Author: Helle Kinning, Marketing and distribution support specialist
I went to see them on a crisp November morning in Poznan and chatted to their Product Manager, Radoslaw Berlowski, who told me about the latest happenings in their company and in the Polish industry generally.
What stage are you at with...
07 October 2015
Blog Author: Accuride
If you want to add a retracting keyboard shelf beneath a desk then the 2109 slide is an obvious choice.
The 2109 slide comes with height adjustable brackets that fix to the underside of the desk. Optional clip on brackets (633xx) can...
08 September 2015
Blog Author: John Whittlesea, Technical support manager
We receive all sorts of questions about slides and we will continue to publish them, with our answers, on the Accuride blog.
We hope that these answers will be useful to you, but if there is a question that we haven’t covered,...
28 July 2015
Blog Author: Accuride
The access control system from Accuride, branded Senseon, is being demonstrated in a retail environment. It uses RFID technology and electronic locks integrated with side mount and under mount slides, including a touch release and soft...
19 February 2015
Blog Author: Helle Kinning, Marketing and distribution support specialist
Helle started the New Year by visiting Schachermayer, our Austrian distribution partner.
She had the opportunity to question Mr Andreas Niedermair, Vice President and Mr Stefan Mader, Product Marketing about how they have adapted their...
12 December 2014
Blog Author: Accuride
This is the title of Accuride’s latest video.
It tells the story of how our product development teams create new ideas and then take them from the drawing board to prototype testing and beyond to a selection of very different...
20 November 2014
Blog Author: Accuride
Small improvements to an existing product can sometimes be as useful to the market as introducing a completely new product.
Just look at the 3832 drawer slide.
The 3832 has been around for many years and can be found across the world in...