Dubai-based window treatment specialist Royal Blinds is set to expand its portfolio to include exterior systems. Among its latest projects, the company has supplied the Dusit Dubai project with its wooden blinds and Wintergarden shading systems.
For the project, Royal Blinds supplied 1,088 wooden blinds covering an area of 3,030 sq m and Wintergarden systems for the 26th Floor and the Roman Restaurant. Wintergarden systems are described as being suitable for conservatories, vertical and particularly-sloping glass walls in offices, homes and public buildings and as ceiling shading for domes and glass roofs.
"The Tower No.1 (Dusit Dubai) project is unique and we have maintained the quality right from the procurement until the completion of the job as Royal Blinds quality control policy," says Mohamed Fiaz. ''Design Division, recognised as one of the best interior designers in this region, executed and supervised all of the interiors jobs for the project. Working with Design Division is an experience in itself as they are highly professional and skilled people. They are very particular about the quality and schedule.''
Royal Blinds was established in 1989. Its comprehensive product range covers an array of 18 kinds of window treatment products like Venetian, vertical, roller, Roman, pleated, wooden, Austrian, bamboo and fresco blinds, folding doors, bamboo panels, canopies, awnings, roller shutters, curtain and sheers, Wintergarden system, curtain tracks and Mechodhade System.
Manual and remote controls and tailor-made solutions for the complete range are available as well. With more than 300 colours, the company says it offers one of the largest colours selections in the industry.
Specialising in internal window treatment, Royal Blinds says it is now expanding into external window treatment systems such as canopies and aluminium roller shutters and external window blinds.
"Quality wins and our phenomenal success is testimony to the fact," says Fiaz. ''From limited domestic assignments in the beginning, the company has been scaling the heights of corporate structures and skyscrapers by virtue of its advanced-technology and environment-friendly window treatment solutions.
''We work in close association with architects, consultants and designers right from the inception of a project and update them on our product range and services and also help in selecting suitable products.''
Its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility over a built-up area of 3,000 sq m in Dubai is manned by a skilled workforce. The factory is equipped with hi-tech cutting tables which are claimed to be unique and the first of their kind in the Middle East.
The company attributes its success to its policy of keeping abreast with the latest technology.
''Our facility is one of the best in the Middle East in the blinds industry, being fully automated and equipped with the latest machines and manned by highly skilled staff. We constantly update our product range and move with the changing trends of the market,'' he says. ''We continue to invest in technology to bring a higher level of quality and customer satisfaction. Our service team comprises experts in the field. Together, we innovate to produce window treatment solutions which are aesthetically appealing and functional efficient.
''Royal Blinds was the first company in the region to introduce motorised - that is switch and remote control operated blinds - in a big and affordable way.''
The company, in association with Somfy of France, offers motorisation for most of the window treatments it does.
Royal Blinds has recently introduced solar shading system from Mechoshade of the USA.
Elaborating on these products, Fiaz says: ''Mechoshade Systems, a world leader in solar shades offers an integrated system of visually transparent, translucent and room-darkening roller screens that provide optimum solar protection with functionality and design aesthetics architects and designers worldwide prefer.
''Mechoshade Systems offers excellent see-through ability, reduce heat-gain and air-conditioning load, reduce glare and brightness problems on CRT screens, increase use of natural daylight and come with 10-years fit-for-use warranty.''
Royal Blinds is the sole distributor in the Middle East for Mechoshade Systems.
Over the years, the company has been associated with a number of prestigious projects in the UAE, including ADCO - Asab and Jebel Dhanna (accommodation and administration office), Australian Embassy, Abu Dhabi Grand Hotel, Abu Dhabi National Hotel and ZADCO - all in Abu Dhabi; Emirates Tower (some floors), United Arab Shipping Company headquarters, Nestle regional headquarters, Hilton-Dubai, Jumeirah, Union House; General Civil Aviation Authority building, Sheraton-Deira; Nad Al Sheba GrandStand, Ministry of Labour and Emirates Bank International - all in Dubai; American University-Sharjah and University of Sharjah, both in Sharjah; Higher College of Technology and some projects of Etisalat in the UAE.
''We expect the market to be good in future with so many prestigious projects under way throughout the UAE,'' he says.
