Events & People
Employees from UAP recently dressed in red to support World Encephalitis Day for the Encephalitis Society. The UAP team has largely been working from home for the past year but social distancing couldn’t stop the fun with many of the team getting their four-legged ‘office assistants’ involved. Major donor and CEO of UAP David Jennings was recently appointed as vice...
Yale has welcomed Richard Eden to the business as its new supply chain director. Richard has over 25 years’ industry experience and a wealth of knowledge in warehousing, logistics, distribution, and supply chain. Richard will oversee and manage supply chain and logistics strategies. He will also have overall responsibility for Yale’s logistics partner, as well as the central factored products...
Phil Slinger is the Council for Aluminium in Building’s new CEO. Phil was previously a senior director of one of the largest association management companies in the UK, with responsibility for over 35 trade associations, professional societies and charities. He has also held senior leadership roles within a range of high-profile UK and international focused membership organisations, professional bodies and...
Anna Plesniar, a process development scientist at Aluk, has been elected as vice chair of the Qualicoat Council for the UK and Ireland. Anna has been Aluk’s representative on the council since the company joined in December 2016 and has been a long-standing advocate of the benefits of membership to systems houses and applicators, as well as pre-treatment and powder-coating...
The British Board of Agrément has appointed former BRE commercial manager Beena Tanna to lead its new client engagement team, driving forward the BBA’s objective to embed customer service at the heart of its organisation. Beena brings with her substantial experience of working in the testing, inspection and certification industry together with a proven track record of building customer relationships and delivering...
The marketing team at Ultraframe has been bolstered with the addition of three experienced new faces: Lucy Wall joins as brand manager; Dan Bradley is the new digital marketing manager; and Liz Chapman is marketing administrator. Marketing director Alex Hewitt said: “All three come from jobs outside of the glass and glazing sector, and so they bring a fresh outlook...
Mann McGowan has welcomed Tim Foster to the position of sales and marketing manager. Tim brings UK and export success in the fire stopping, plastic and rubber extrusion industries, and will work alongside managing director Jamie Scott, technical director Russell Smith and commercial manager Dave Boulton to further expand the company’s worldwide commercial and strategic partnerships. “Mann McGowan is growing...
Keen footballer Katie Sampson has achieved a personal goal after being appointed Kestrel’s new business development manager. The 26-year-old who graduated with a sport business management degree will now be pitching new products to a growing customer base across the Midlands, south Wales and the south west of England. Worcester-based Katie took a graduate job in construction and worked for...
Alex Moore, long-standing member of the team at Apeer, has been promoted from sales manager to group sales director. Alex brings with him to his new role a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm for the group’s products, across the Apeer door and Lumi frameless window brands. In his new position as group sales director, Alex will be responsible for the...
Leeds-based Morley Glass and Glazing has pledged £500 to help fund repairs to an important piece of Yorkshire’s World War One heritage. Morley’s contribution to the Yorkshire Trench is its first donation from its GreenVision Fund, where is uses the money it receives from supplying Saint-Gobain Glass with recycled glass cullet to support charities and support sustainable projects. Located just...
Rehau is mourning the loss of company founder and honorary president Helmut Wagner who passed away in Switzerland at the end of January 2021, aged 95, and surrounded by his family. “The great sympathy for the passing of our father comes from many regions of the world,” Jobst Wagner, president of the supervisory board, said. “We are very touched by...
Yale has appointed Lucy Hume as marketing executive, assuming responsibilities for day-to-day communications as part of the brand’s marketing team. A recent first-class graduate in Business and Marketing from Birmingham City University, Lucy also brings previous marketing experience at a graphic and web design company to the role. Lucy said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for me, and I can’t...
Carl F Groupco’s regional sales team leader Nathalie McKee and purchasing manager Lisa Davy have both celebrated ten years’ service for the hardware distributor. Nathalie and Lisa are the latest in a lengthy list of long servers for Carl F Groupco; during 2020, credit controller Edward Barnard also achieved the accolade and they join 18 other Carl F Groupco employees...
The British Board of Agrément has appointed Professor Bill Hewlett to the newly created post of technical director. Bill, a qualified civil engineer who brings more than 35 years of wide-ranging construction and process industries experience to the high-profile role, will report directly to CEO Hardy Giesler. His remit includes driving forward excellence and innovation within the BBA and the wider...
Edgetech has said it will continue to support worthy causes despite the challenges of 2020. Coronavirus has affected every part of society in one way or another, but the charity sector has been especially hard hit. With charity shops ordered to close, and hundreds of fundraising events forced to cancel, groups offering vital support to millions of vulnerable people are...
VBH has announced the sad news that Des Turnbull, until recently the area sales manager for the northern counties, passed away in hospital on the morning of Saturday January 16: “Des was an integral part of the VBH team for the best part of two decades before retiring last February. He was very well respected and much liked by his...
Andrew Charlesworth has been promoted to technical director for Profine UK and Kömmerling, having been with the business since July 2014. More recently, he has added to his department to help support customers and to implement a new five-year product management plan for the business. They are John Berry, Steve Holloway, Tony Ward and Simon Coleman who, combined, have over...
Paul Stanfield has joined KAT as business development manager, at a time when new aluminium products are being launched. Paul said: “KAT already offers a fantastic range of products which I know well, such as the Veka Halo flush casement windows, Veka Imagine bifold and sliding doors, and will soon be launching a new range of high quality aluminium bifolds and sliding doors along with...
Emmegi (UK) has announced the very sad death of Kully Hunter, the company’s service manager. She died suddenly on Friday January 8, 2021. Ian Latimer, Emmegi (UK)’s managing director, said: “The whole team here is devastated by the news. Kully was a friend as well as a colleague, and we will all miss her terribly. “Kully had worked in this...
Gowercroft Joinery has appointed a new technical manager to drive its programme of new product development and innovation. Gary Chatwood is joining the company with over forty years of experience in the timber fenestration, conservatory and home improvement market. Previously production and design manager at several leading Yorkshire timber and composite window and door companies, he has extensive knowledge of...