Season's Greetings from ABRIC

Its been an exciting year for us; seen lots of changes, many improvements, new staffs and tons of initiatives introduced. With a new year ahead of us, we are ever so committed to bring you the very best of our products and services.

We at ABRIC would like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

ISO 17712 revision to 2010 version

The latest version of the ISO17712 has been revised to ISO17712:2010, which addresses some of the security issues with bolt seals. The International Seals Manufacturers Association gives a rather detailed explanation towards the changes addressed in this ISO 17712:2010 revision.

"The third generation changes published in ISO 17712: 2010 addressed technical issues, added testing for tamper evidence and established an 18 month transition buffer after publication for critical issues. 

Most of the technical changes that affect accredited testing labs, which must have ISO 17712 included in their scope of competence: the changes clarified test fixture designs and added specificity to the test procedures.  Another technical change, reflecting user experience, established an 18mm minimum widest diameter for bolt seals. ISO/PAS 17712 had addressed seal diameter as a functional requirement and the industry norm tended to be 17mm.  The 18 month transition buffer applied to the 18mm requirement to accomodate manufacturer's tooling requirements and particularly to allow seal inventory adjustment throughout bolt seal supply chains.

Testing for tamper evidence is the most important change since addition of the normative Annex A.  Customs regulators in the European Commission approached ISO and expressed strong interest in tamper testing and vetting of security seals. ISO TC 104 leaders decided that WG8 would work with the EC to address their concerns.  All parties shared a goal: to facilitate maintenance of a common global regime for security seals. "

Additionally,  seals will also be required to have markings of indicative ("I"), security ("S") and high security ("H") on each seal. These classifications will be determined by certified testing bodies such as SGS Malaysia, and Dayton Brown (from the US).


By March 2012, all seals all ISO 17712 compliant seals must be certified as tamper evident, giving companies the peace of mind when using these certified security seals .

A Trip to the Camerons

Monday morning. ABRIC's HQ has never been so quiet.

This is a Monday morning unlike any other, mind you.

9a.m., 1st of November. We gathered and took off to Ipoh for a "soft opening" of our Ipoh plant. As some of you may already know, we have recently expanded our manufacturing capacity of plastic seals into our Ipoh plant as well. The implementation will be done in phases but some of the new machines are already up and running, and is already capable of producing Mini JawLocks at a steady rate.

With the respective divisions giving their presentations, and half a day's worth of team building, we were ready to depart for the main event of the trip: the Annual Sales Budget Meeting in Cameron Highlands. This is of course the highlight of the trip, where we would have our annual budget presented and discuss on our action plan for the coming year. 

The Action Plan Discussion

Brain-storming session

With all the sales person and manufacturing expertise from AEI and AISB gathered under one room, many ideas where exchanged and brain-stormed, giving one of the most productive and creative Annual Sales Budget Meetings we have had in quite a while. 

It will be a positive year ahead for ABRIC, with many changes, improvements and creative ideas which will be implemented and executed. We will all be looking forward to ABRIC Ahead 2011.

ABRIC's Annual Sales Budget Meeting

Another year has passed and it has come to the time where all our colleagues from overseas meet to review the budget for the following year.

This year's Sales Budget Meeting is rightfully dubbed ABRIC Ahead 2011. With many agendas to run through, this looks to be one of the most exciting Budget Meetings we have held.

I'll keep you posted on the details, so stay tuned to this year's Sales Budget Meeting which will be held on the 1st November, in Malaysia.

Selamat Hari Raya

With the Ramadan month coming to an end, we at ABRIC would like to take this opportunity to wish our partners a Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri.

May blessings fill your life with joy, peace and prosperity.

Eid Mubarak!

Two new (awesome) security seals launched!

We have just recently launched two more security seals into our grand range of seals. Head to to our website and check out KeeperLock and GlueTack!

KeeperLock

GlueTack

Head over to www.abric.com for further details on our other products, and place your orders on our newly launched Online Store. Tell us what you think of our new products by commenting below.

ABRIC's Online Store (US) is now online

We just recently launched our Online Store and our seals are now available for purchase online. It is currently only in the US, more regions will soon follow. Click on the thumbnail below and visit the site:

ABRIC's Online Store on CoreCommerce