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By The Window Company (Contracts)’ chair, David Thornton. While supply issues right across the market are obviously having a serious impact on fabricators, lead times and operational efficiencies, in most cases it is installers, operating at the sharp end of the industry, who are actually bearing the brunt. In the commercial market, where there are sometimes penalties for late completion...
Ash Pearson, sales manager at Jack Aluminium Systems explains how modern aluminium systems are helping to deliver heritage-style aesthetics in industrial building restorations and refurbishments. There’s no escaping the trend for heritage style in homes. It’s all over the glossy home style magazines and you see it at most self-building and renovating exhibitions too. Influenced by home makeover television shows...
The 2017 FIT Show reflected the most significant transformation in the home improvement glazing sector for decades, with an estimated 35% of exhibitors showing aluminium products. Managing director Paul Godwin reflects on how the event bore witness to this almost seismic shift. Many in the window and door industry will not remember aluminium ever being a major element in the...
Glazerite UK group director Jason Thompson says installers are right to target the more prestigious jobs. It isn’t surprising that more and more installers are being tempted to tender for commercial work. The scale of each contract is attraction enough but when you add in other factors such as consistency of demand, repetition in manufacturing and the likelihood of getting...
Glazerite UK group director Jason Thompson says installers are right to target the more prestigious jobs. It isn’t surprising that more and more installers are being tempted to tender for commercial work. The scale of each contract is attraction enough but when you add in other factors such as consistency of demand, repetition in manufacturing and the likelihood of getting...
UK businesses are facing an increase in cost pressures after Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) jumped to 12% in June. Having doubled from 6% in October 2015, this is the third increase in just 18 months. The biggest concern over the tax increase is that businesses may be tempted to cut back on their policies, which is likely to increase the...
By Ben Brocklesby, director at Origin. The summer months, when we expect warmer, sunnier days, is when bifolding doors come into their own. This isn’t only the case for residential properties, but we see a growing trend of commercial sites – such as cafés, restaurants and bars – installing this style of door, giving them the competitive edge in attracting...
By Mo Panam, MD Barley Chalu. Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. I have long admired this statement from Henry Ford and it certainly is true for our architectural finishing industry. Today, to finish an aluminium profile is not a difficult task, as there are lots of automated plant available which will do the work for you, but to get it...
