Posted On - 13/08/2018
Lower overheads and a more flexible business model has made the trade counter what some people call an industry success story. Pro-Trade Upvc, which has just opened its third offering, talks to Glass Times. There’s a theory that goes: fitters dropped by their retailer employers during the recession set up on their own and bought-in from trade counters. Another one...
Posted On - 11/07/2018
By Ben Brocklesby, Director at Origin. We were recently asked how Origin drives business success, and it really got me thinking about organisational achievements and what constitutes success in my eyes. The honest answer is that success is not one dimensional – it has lots of moving parts, that all play a crucial role in the wider running of the...
Posted On - 11/07/2018
Over the course of the last ten years there has been a steady decline year-on-year in the number of PVCU window and door fabricators operating within the UK. Nevertheless, the number of window, door and conservatory installation businesses has increased over the last few years, with a surge in small installation businesses. Selecta Systems sales director Andy Green analyses the...
Posted On - 11/07/2018
Pearl Window Systems is owned by Jeff Walsh, who formed the window fabrication company in 1999 and has since grown it substantially along with his team in Bolton, Lancashire. The business now services the trade, commercial and new build sectors all over the UK. Jeff explains why Pearl chooses to fabricate the Liniar system, and why he is firmly on...
Posted On - 10/07/2018
The conservatory sector may have declined in volume but its delivering high margin returns nonetheless, according to Emplas’s John Leary. It’s absolutely clear that the conservatory sector has made a gargantuan leap forward in the last four years, as a new generation of products have come of age. It’s the product of a lot of soul searching post 2012 –...
Posted On - 10/07/2018
Traditionally white PVCU windows have been the most popular window style with many homeowners. However, with the advent of modern technology and dynamic industry changes, there is now a growing trend for coloured PVCU windows – powered partly by industrial-inspired architecture. Ian Griffiths, managing director of Rehau fabricator Shepley Windows looks at these changing trends. For homeowners, white doesn’t excite....
Posted On - 14/06/2018
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell visited Simon Felstein, owner of Altrincham-based Nova Group, to see how the development of new products and market forces took a modest glass business and created a regional fenestration heavyweight. When plumber Ian Sproston required a piece of cut glass in 1971, he visited a local glass shop in Altrincham one lunchtime, only to be...
Posted On - 14/06/2018
Roseview’s sales director Richard Burrells explains how the sash window is a product that designers got right first time – a timeless, stylish, quintessentially English design that immediately evokes the elegance of centuries past. For 40 years, the secret to Roseview’s success has been its knowledge of sash window history, and respect for classic design. The very first sash windows...
Posted On - 14/06/2018
Alan Burgess, managing director of Masterframe Windows, responds to an article written by Kurt Greatrex, sales director of Dekko Window Systems, who said installers should steer clear of non-glass-bonded, unglazed Residence 9 windows, which appeared in last month’s Glass Times. Like Kurt I too remember the early days of PVCU. Sadly for me mine date back to the mid-1960s when...
Posted On - 14/06/2018
An R9 fabricator since 2013, HWL became the first and one of only a handful of manufacturers to offer The Residence Collection unglazed last year. Director Mark Haley explains why and how it did it. It’s hard to imagine that before 2011 flush PVCU casements didn’t exist. If a single system has revolutionised PVCU window manufacture in the last 10...
Posted On - 14/06/2018
Allan Brothers is part of the Inwido Group which, in the UK, also includes the well-established trade fabricator CWG Choices. Unsurprisingly then, we were represented at the recent CWG Choices Spring Open Days demonstrating our range of timber windows and doors, and that gave us a great opportunity to talk directly to installers about getting into the timber market and...
Posted On - 14/06/2018
Where the commercial sector has led, so the homeowner has followed, driving aluminium’s new appeal in the retail sector, according to Sliders UK’s Steve Mines. You could argue that it’s simply down to the ‘Grand Designs’ factor. I’d suggest, however, that you need to look a little wider and a little further back to explain the blossoming that we’re now...
Posted On - 14/06/2018
Matt Hardy, director of Skyglaze explains how the new LMX650 from FOM is redefining possibilities in aluminium fabrication. FOM allows you to manufacture better product by accessing more technical processes – flow and friction drilling, notch cutting, T-milling – and the integration of those processes. That specialism means that ultimately as a manufacturer you can do more and offer your...
Posted On - 14/06/2018
By Prefix Without question, aluminium in the fenestration sector has made it back seemingly from the abyss, and is now very much a mainstream proposition, challenging the default of PVCU for being the low maintenance building material of choice. In the commercial sector the big aluminium systems houses dominate, while in the trade channels to consumers, it’s now part of...
Posted On - 14/06/2018
Neil Ginger, CEO at Origin, the UK’s leading manufacturer of doors and windows, explains why aluminium is seeing exponential growth as the ‘must have’ window material and the benefits it brings. For homeowners, choosing a door or window is a major decision, and one that they have to live with, in most cases forever, or certainly until it needs to...
Posted On - 14/06/2018
Alan Robinson, MD of Alumen, talks about the resurgence of aluminium. The popularity of aluminium has been key to our success, but is it fair to say that aluminium was once unpopular? I’m not so sure. It has always had its place in architectural design because of the unique properties the material has to offer, particularly when it comes to...
Posted On - 30/05/2018
As technology continues to improve, a manufacturer’s quest for an increasingly connected business grows every day. That being said, it is important to know the difference between being smart and implementing unnecessary systems to appear cutting-edge. We, at Origin, base all decisions on what is going to help streamline our processes and make our partners experience in dealing with us...
Posted On - 30/05/2018
Kurt Greatrex, sales director of Dekko Window Systems, explains why installers should steer clear of non-glass-bonded, unglazed Residence 9 windows. If you’re a window industry veteran like me, chances are you’ll remember the ‘pinking profile’ issue that arose during the late 1980s and early 1990s. As systems companies fought for better margins they value engineered their formula, taking out essential...
Posted On - 30/05/2018
Steve Hardy, managing director of Sidey Solutions, talks about the shortfall in the number of new homes being built and how fitting windows in the factory can save time and money. On March 5, 2018, the prime minister announced changes to planning laws in her Building a Britain Fit for the Future speech to tackle the housing crisis.Theresa May talked...
Posted On - 30/05/2018
Oliver Ginger, supply chain director at Origin, talks about how Origin is getting smarter and the technology it implements to ensure a streamlined process. I am often asked how connected we are at Origin. People want to know what procedures and systems a leading manufacturer like us has in place to be smarter. I always say that there is a...
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