Posted On - 23/06/2021
By Ben Brocklesby, director at Origin. Our partners are crucial to our business success, which is why we do everything we can to make their lives as simple as possible. We innovate, we challenge industry norms, we conduct consumer research, we offer them training, and we provide our expertise and support when they pitch for commercial work. This gold standard...
Posted On - 23/06/2021
By Nine Zero. The modern timber window has come a long way since the 1960s where, poorly made, untreated softwood frames were fitted with single panes of glass on site after the frame was fitted into the brick work. Timber gained a bad name and it stuck for some time due to the moisture leaks and rot that followed their...
Posted On - 23/06/2021
In November 2020, Europlas opened its latest window and door trade counter in Caerphilly, south Wales. Managing director Simon Lomax and national operations manager Gavin Burton discuss the new facility. Opening a new branch typically involves more than simply stocking the products you want to sell and throwing open the doors to customers; there’s a range of tradespeople who typically...
Posted On - 23/06/2021
Apeer’s Lumi window is now available in aluminium, which makes more difference than you might imagine, says the company’s MD Asa McGillian. A friend of mine tells a story about when the flush sash window R9 (which basically put the flush sash window on the map) was launched at the old Ecobuild show back in 2012. This friend recalls how...
Posted On - 21/06/2021
Ben Brocklesby, director at Origin, talks to us about the recently launched Help to Build Scheme, the impact this will have on demand, and what Origin is doing to help support its partners during these predicted peaks. In late April, the government announced that it would be making £150 million available to make self-building more accessible and more affordable, as...
Posted On - 14/06/2021
Mike Parczuk, managing director at Sternfenster, discusses the Investors in People Gold status and how it has introduced new initiatives to improve mental health and wellbeing. While the exact amount of time that we devote to work over the course of a lifetime varies depending on profession, UK workers can expect on average to spend around 80,000 hours, or 3,500...
Posted On - 19/05/2021
Victorian Sliders’ group managing director Andy Jones explains the vital role marketing plays in a long-term approach to business, and why in challenging times it’s more important than ever. Over the last year, we’ve all had to make changes to adapt to a strange, unpredictable, rapidly developing situation. But at Victorian Sliders, our commitment to marketing hasn’t wavered. I believe...
Posted On - 19/05/2021
Ben Brocklesby, director at Origin, explains how Origin’s honest and transparent communications throughout the entire lockdown period helped manage customer expectations and attract new partners. Everyone has been impacted by the last 12-15 months differently. For some, it has been the uncertainty that has been difficult to handle, and for others, work might have become increasingly difficult to do effectively...
Posted On - 19/05/2021
Founder director of The Joinery Network Owen Dare talks about why marketing is at the centre of the support package for installation companies looking to add timber windows and doors. Homeowners love timber windows and doors, but over the years they have fallen out of favour with many installation companies. That’s because they became a niche product with a limited...
Posted On - 19/05/2021
Stuart Green, director at Framexpress, talks about Club Framexpress, the thinking behind its creation, and the support that it offers to installers. One of the things about installer schemes that I have always found tricky, is that they can feel like it’s all done on the terms of the supplier. You will know the kind of thing I mean: plenty...
Posted On - 19/05/2021
As a PVC fabricator that was previously losing out on demand for aluminium, Vale Window Group is now reaping the benefits of bringing manufacture in house with the Decalu system from Deceuninck Aluminium. General manager Andy Lomax explains. We’ve traditionally focused purely on PVCU manufacturer. In the past, if we had an enquiry for aluminium from one of our customers,...
Posted On - 19/05/2021
More than ever our homes are how we express ourselves, says Adrian Barraclough of heritage window specialist Quickslide. There is a train of thought that suggests that, as we have been confined to our homes, we have lost the opportunity to express ourselves through the way we dress, and that need to show off is being channelled through our homes....
Posted On - 19/05/2021
Ben Brocklesby, director at Origin, discusses Origin’s commercial department and the opportunities it provides to its partner network. Origin established its commercial department in July 2019, and was designed to help the business reach new markets, and further strengthen the offering its partners could provide. This aligned with the company’s growth strategy for market share in the construction sector, with...
Posted On - 14/05/2021
By Mike Parczuk, managing director of Sternfenster. I speak to our installers every day: ‘exhausted’, ‘stretched’ and ‘frazzled’ probably describe how they feel best. We’re in a boom but that’s come with a unique set of challenges, and we recognise the last thing installers want to talk about is price increases and disruption to the supply chain. As a business,...
Posted On - 10/05/2021
Victoria Brocklesby, COO at Origin, discusses the Green Homes Grant scheme and how it didn’t match up to expectations. The UK government formally recognised that the nation must do more to combat climate change when it set itself the ambitious targets of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. However, drastic action must be taken to meet these targets. One area identified...
Posted On - 06/05/2021
Thirteen years ago, Andy Jones’s argument that VAT should be cut on energy-efficient glazing products aired in parliament. Now, following the cancellation of the government’s Green Homes Grant, he makes that case again. One of my better claims to fame is that I was once mentioned in the House of Commons. Back in 2008, I was managing director of warm...
Posted On - 19/04/2021
Sternfenster is delivering an industry leading service on aluminium thanks to significant investment in machinery over the last 12 months, including five-day lead times on its Alifold bifold and Alitherm 300 window. We report. “We are experiencing ongoing, strong demand for our aluminium offering,” Mike Parczuk, managing director of Sternfenster said. “We were exceptionally busy throughout 2020 and that’s carried...
Posted On - 19/04/2021
By Stag Aluminium. The team at Stag Aluminium, based in Kilmarnock have been designing, manufacturing and installing aluminium doors, windows and curtain walling for over 36 years, operating mainly across Ayrshire, around south Glasgow, and on the Isle of Arran. With an injection of ambition, coupled with a dyed-in-the-wool aluminium man now at the helm, Alex McLean and Fiona Kelly...
Posted On - 19/04/2021
By Ben Brocklesby, director at Origin. At Origin, our entire operation is centred around our partners: we are constantly looking for ways in which we can better support their business model and increase their bottom line. It is this ethos which has led to us passing 1,000 partners in the UK, which is an accomplishment we are very proud of....
Posted On - 19/04/2021
Jody Vincent, sales director at Emplas discusses the strategy underpinning its new aluminium window offer from Aluk. Emplas has launched a ramped-up aluminium offer from Aluk, building on the F82 Luminia Bi-fold, which it launched in 2019. This includes the addition of the 58BD residential and French door system, which includes a flush option; and the BSC94 Inline Sliding Patio....
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