Posted On - 13/09/2022
Heritage Trade Frames has signed a five-year supply agreement with Epwin Window Systems. Paul Culshaw, managing director of Heritage Trade Frames, said: “We have worked with Epwin Window Systems for the past 28 years and enjoy an excellent relationship with them. Their award-winning systems allow us to manufacture a comprehensive product portfolio which is well valued by our customers. We...
Posted On - 13/09/2022
Sapphire Glass Merchants has invested in automated Super Spacer application technology and is said to be benefitting from greater efficiency, quality and a raft of new customers. The Hinckley-based firm acquired a refurbished automated line at the end of 2021. “We opted to embrace automation because we’d realised we were reaching the limits of what we could achieve doing things...
Posted On - 13/09/2022
Dan Sullivan, MD of DoorCo, has signed up to cycle the USA route of the We Mind & Kelly Matters challenge, The Loneliest Road tour, starting on 24 September. Dan commented: “We Mind & Kelly Matters is a charity close to my heart. In the early days of DoorCo, I used to speak to Kelly Hewitt almost on a daily...
Posted On - 13/09/2022
By Double Glazing & Conservatory Ombudsman Scheme (DGCOS) chief executive, Faisal Hussain. DGCOS has always believed strongly in collaboration with our members’ best interests at heart. We engage with and listen to our members so they can contribute and collaborate in industry topics and feel heard. This feedback is turned into actions which serve purely to raise standards, protect consumers,...
Posted On - 13/09/2022
By Pierre Mifsud, technical director, Comp Door When is a door a composite door? And when is it a timber door? Or can they be both? And if so, should they then be required to comply to standards and regulations for both door types? According to BS 8529, a composite door is described as a ‘door leaf whose structure contains...
Posted On - 13/09/2022
AT Precision has invested £110K in new machinery, in a bid to ramp up production and keep up with growing demand. The Durham-based company has bought in a CNC vertical machining centre, an 8-head tapping machine, as well as three new saws. Sales director, Michael Hewitt, commented: “We’ve seen increased demand for aluminium products across the board, especially for bi-folds...
Posted On - 13/09/2022
Timber window and door manufacturer, Jack Brunsdon & Son, has been in business since the 1940s and attributes much of its success and longevity to exceptional customer service, as well as a long-term partnership with AdminBase. “Jack Brunsdon & Son has always placed a firm focus on quality and accuracy in the products we make and the service we provide,”...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
By Andrew Keir, managing director, Spraylat In the August edition of Glass Times, Mark Mitchell, chair of Cornwall Glass, wrote two excellent articles entitled ‘Glass allocation to Europe threat to UK stability’ and ‘Glass industry under intense strain’. The articles explained how gas shortages in mainland Europe this winter would put pressure on the European float lines, how the glass...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
By Howard Trotter, business manager, Shelforce. With the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, I have seen ‘Be the Best’ slogans around the city during the successful event and it made me think – what does the best look like in our industry, and how do we measure that? They say that turnover is vanity while net margin is sanity, but is...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
New carbon pledges by international glass manufacturer, NSG Group, have been certified as science based, as its UK subsidiary, Pilkington UK, completes a string of world-first trials towards achieving decarbonisation. The NSG Group has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions by 30% compared with 2018 levels, by 2030. It forms part of a wider plan to achieve carbon neutrality by...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
Jade Engineering has engineered a ‘Swiss army knife’ punch tool for the Guardian Warm Roof that’s designed to dramatically reduce fabrication time for the solid roof system. Jade is said to have worked closely with the manufacturers of Guardian Warm Roof in order to provide a more efficient and accurate solution that would enable fabricators to replace the template and...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
Organisers have announced the agenda for this year’s Glazing Summit, which is scheduled for Tuesday, 18 October at Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham, following feedback on the industry’s most important issues. Starting with a ‘State of the Industry’ report by Insight Data’s managing director and Glazing Summit founder, Andrew Scott, five debates will take place throughout the day. The first will be...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
Eyrise will display the largest dynamic liquid crystal glass panels ever built, in the Glass Technology Live hub at Glasstec. Visitors to the exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany, on 22 and 23 September, will be able to experience an interactive installation of two glass modules for building facades and interiors. Live demonstrations of solar shading and privacy glass will be showcased,...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
Following a series of strategic appointments, ERA’s in-house engineering department has grown 75% over the last eight months to further bolster its product development and manufacturing capabilities. Led by head of engineering, Matthew King, the department now comprises three complementary workstreams, including customer application, product development and engineering project management. Matthew King said: “ERA is well known throughout the industry...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
Epwin Window Systems’ fabricator, Clearview Glaziers, has hosted an open day for customers. Robin Squibb, Clearview’s director, said: “The aim was to attract new installers and cement existing relationships. We more than achieved these aims and we’ve secured several new customers as a result.” Taking centre stage at the open day was Clearview’s full range of Stellar products, the multi...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
Patios Southwest has taken on Deceuninck as a single source for its PVC-U patio sliding door profile, in a bid to manage quality and supply. The Newton Abbot-based company had dual sourced for a number of years, but the company found that increasing numbers of customers were moving over to the Slider 24+ system from Deceuninck to benefit from a...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
CR Smith Manufacturing has signed an £8m contract with social landlord Link Group’s commercial partner Curb, to supply replacement windows over the next four years. Curb launched in April 2022, to provide property development, maintenance and management service to Link and a range of external partners Through Curb Property Maintenance, Link – which manages 12,000 homes across Scotland – is...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
Social housing specialist, The Sekura Group, has worked with Carl F Groupco in the manufacture and installation of 133 windows for a refurbishment project in the Doxford Park area of Sunderland. Derek Sumner, installation manager at The Sekura Group, commented: “We work on many projects like this one in Doxford Park. We also have ongoing framework agreements and responsive maintenance...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
By Neil Cooper-Smith, senior analyst, Business Pilot. There is little doubt that a slowdown has and is happening. Year-on-year sales figures for this August are down 7% on where they were last year. Leads are down 30%. However, last month saw a reversal of the downward trend seen in July with sales up 16% and leads up 17%. This was...
Posted On - 06/09/2022
Roseview Windows has reportedly doubled its capacity over the past two years to 750 PVC-U vertical sliders per week and is said to have plans to increase to a record 1,000. It attributes much of its ability to cope with such growth to the fact that it switched to Business Micros’ Evolution manufacturing and EvoNET business management software during the...
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