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Posted On - 31/01/2023
Paul Smith, head of marketing at F.H. Brundle, explores the rise of balustrades, and how they’ve changed in the centuries since they were first used. They might be seen as highly prestigious, even luxurious, today, but balustrades are fundamentally very simple. There’s a horizontal handrail, and a row of short vertical posts or columns – balusters – holding it up....
Posted On - 29/11/2022
As the supply of glass gradually returns to normal, joint MD of Mackenzie Glass, Mark Herbert, explains that sourcing specialist glass remains difficult. A defining feature of the post-Covid construction industry was how increased demand was sometimes not fulfilled by a supply chain that struggled to return to normal after the pandemic restrictions were lifted. Drawing on their strong relations...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Is the Government pledge to cut energy bills for business to around half of expected levels enough to put an end to energy surcharges? The Government unveiled its energy package for business at the end of September. Under the scheme, wholesale gas and electricity prices for firms will be fixed for six-months from the start of October, offering businesses protection...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Will the government’s recently announced energy support package for businesses help settle nerves this winter? Chair of the Cornwall Group, Mark Mitchell, is not so sure. In September, the government announced an emergency support package for businesses to help with the cost of energy. The headline takeaway is a cap on the wholesale price of energy – £211 a megawatt...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Do companies want to buy from venture capitalists, or from glass people? The answer to this will help businesses decide how they grow, according to chair of the Cornwall Group Mark Mitchell. During the spring of 2022, the Cornwall Group was approached by two private equity firms to form a larger group of glass companies. On offer was a cash...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Tracey Jackson, business development manager at Howells Patent Glazing understands a thing or two about heritage. Not least because her father, Walter Howells, was the driving force behind the company’s inception more than 40 years’ ago, in 1973. Now said to be one of most respected manufacturers in the Black Country, Howells has built a reputation for delivering sensitive, high-quality...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Glass Times editor, Luke Wood, catches up with CRL’s managing director, Simon Boocock, who explains more about the company’s new Glass Rooms offer. 2021 was our best year ever,” says Simon Boocock, managing director at CRL. “That was due to Covid, to homeowners spending less on going out and going abroad and focusing their attention instead on improving their properties....
Posted On - 09/11/2022
The Cornwall Group has just celebrated three years of its new structure, which has helped the business survive the most challenging period in its history, according to group chair Mark Mitchell. In July 2019, Cornwall Glass restructured its operations to become three distinct companies operating under a group umbrella. Key to this decision was a strategy to prepare the group...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Price increases form part of a bigger picture, observes Dave Broxton, MD of Bohle, and now is the time to assess the relationship with your suppliers so opportunities are maximised. With supplier prices rocketing, the onslaught on consumer-facing businesses can feel relentless. So much so that some companies are questioning the practice of constantly passing price increases down the supply...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Howells Patent Glazing has long recognised that the fenestration industry has an ageing workforce and has sought to head this off by investing in people, training and upskilling its staff. Glass Times talks to one of Howells’ new engineering apprentices who joined the company at the start of the year. Patent glazing and rooflight manufacturer, Howells Patent Glazing, has put...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Glass Times editor, Luke Wood, talks to Flat Glass Solutions managing director, Dave Cahill, about how glass processors can save time and money, improve product quality – and operate more sustainably – with a Dieffe Macchine centrifuge. Rising costs have increased the pressure on all businesses in the glazing industry and with continuing forecasts of rising inflation, the challenge is...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Patrick Burke, national sales director of Exlabesa Architecture UK, charts the soaring popularity of products designed to maximise the use of glass, and how his company’s new Glass Rail balustrade system is the natural next step in their evolution. Cutting-edge architecture is dominated by one material – glass. Look at the world’s most ambitious and spectacular buildings, and they’re covered...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
A growing number of fabricators are returning to making their own IGUs. Tony Palmer, head of sales at Edgetech, comments on the phenomenon. It feels like we’ve been through more crisis situations in the last few years than you see in the average decade. Each time things seem at risk of getting back to normal, some new challenge emerges that...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Dual Seal Glass, one of the UK’s leading independent glass processors was acquired by Vandaglas in February this year. Now trading as Dualseal, Glass Times editor Luke Wood, talks to managing director, Nils Matthies, to learn more about the acquisition and the company’s plans for the future. Dual Seal Glass was founded in Huddersfield, 1995, by father and son team,...
Posted On - 07/09/2022
Vetro Tooling is well known in the glass and stone industry, not only for providing tooling but for having its own state-of-the-art workshop and engineering team at its premises. In 2019, the company partnered with two leading Italian machinery manufacturers, Denver Glass and Stone Machinery and Zafferani Glas and has since gone from strength to strength, building up its team...
Posted On - 07/09/2022
Energy surcharges, which can flex and adapt to changing market conditions, are fundamentally a good idea. Chair of the Cornwall Group, Mark Mitchell, explains why he is worried that the current model could be forcing some businesses under. The volatility of the energy market, and the effect this has on energy-intensive industries such as glass, is creating a headache for...
Posted On - 07/09/2022
With the internet dominating so much of B2B relations, why does Bohle place so much value in its customer services team? We talk to customer service manager, Helen McKerracher, to find out. Bohle’s website is optimised to make the customer journey as straightforward as possible, allowing glass processing companies and installers to choose, order and receive their products in the...
Posted On - 19/07/2022
The British Standard on self-cleaning roof glass has done much to clarify what the term really means. However, according to Paul Higgins, commercial director for specialist glass producer, TuffX, it hasn’t completely stopped some in the industry from taking liberties with the term. There’s nothing a dubious marketer likes more than an indefinable word. Whether it’s hi-fi, low-calorie, superfast, energy-saving...
Posted On - 19/07/2022
Cath McLean, segment manager – Glass at Promat UK, explains how fire resistant glazing can be specified and installed with total confidence by choosing a fully tested system. Large glazing is very much the order of the day as architects, developers and homeowners increasingly want to maximise natural light and external views, and make internal spaces feel more spacious and...
Posted On - 19/07/2022
By Tracey Jackson, business development manager, Howells Patent Glazing With so much attention given to consumer demand for glass and glazed products, it’s easy to forget the volumes used in commercial projects. Long associated with high-rise architecture, glass skyscrapers have taken over the world in the past 70 or so years. While the energy efficiency and environmental impact of building...
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