Posted On - 09/01/2018
Gareth Thomas, group sales director at Customade Group, looks ahead to what the enhanced new group will deliver for installers in 2018. There’s a shift building in the industry – one where installers have greater control over their businesses; the power to discard tired supply chains, save time, improve efficiencies and enhance profits. Customade Group has unveiled a solution to...
Posted On - 18/12/2017
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell visited Leicester-based Unique Window Systems to discover where market growth is coming from. When Glass Times last visited Unique Window Systems in Leicester, the company was ramping up its production of WarmCore windows, which has proven to be successful for the company. At the time, new Graf machinery from Promac was being installed in a...
Posted On - 18/12/2017
By Ben Brocklesby, director at Origin. At Origin, we work hard to understand what homeowners want and need from their homes. Additional insight helps us learn about our target audience, which we pass on to our partners, allowing them to be better equipped when speaking to customers on the shop floor. This year, we’ve used independent research to reveal the...
Posted On - 18/12/2017
Switching to digital lead management and quotation tools is not only cutting the time installers spend on paperwork but helping them to win business, according Elliot Martin, sales and marketing director of south west retailer MPS. Homeowner and end-user expectation has changed; people rightly expect a higher level of professionalism. Being able to draw on information about jobs from quotes...
Posted On - 27/11/2017
The £3.2 million investment programme at TruFrame is one for customers over the long-term, according to managing director David Firmager, who wants to strive for ever better product quality and overall frame finishing. As part of our product specification, every single PVCU window and door frame we make undergoes our unique four-step hand finishing process. We believe that it is...
Posted On - 27/11/2017
New figures show margins on PVCU are on the rise. Ryan Johnson, managing director of Emplas, discusses how its reinvention is redefining the shape of the window industry. There’s been a stigma attached to PVCU. It’s been scorned by conservation officers and received by architects with an upturned nose – but it’s clear from new figures that product innovation is...
Posted On - 15/11/2017
Sliders UK started manufacture of its new ultra-energy efficient aluminium window last month. We find out why it’s adopting a different approach to window supply. Sliders UK’s new aluminium system – the Ultimate Evolution XT – offers U-values as low as 0.85W/m2K, yet sales director Steve Mines said the company is not planning to compete in the mass window market...
Posted On - 06/11/2017
Sometimes we forget that the timber from which wood windows are manufactured actually once lived and breathed. And breathing new life into the wood, by the passion and skills of the joiner, transforms it into beautifully crafted windows, says Mighton’s Mike Derham, and that’s the heart and soul of a timber-framed window. PVCU window and door frames still dominate the...
Posted On - 31/10/2017
Allan Brothers wants to get the industry talking about timber. Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell visited the company’s site in Berwick-upon-Tweed to find out why. When Glass Times visited Allan Brothers’ new showroom in Berwick-upon-Tweed recently, we discovered that the finishing touches were still being added the day before, and it was something of a grand opening. “This showroom has...
Posted On - 31/10/2017
Brian Kruger, managing director of Shropshire-based trade fabricator Universal Trade Frames, discusses what it takes to succeed in fabrication today. We moved into window fabrication in 1996 and, with recent market research reporting ‘significant headwinds’ for the industry, it would seem that change is here to stay. As an established family-run fabricator we are accustomed to change and uncertainty, and...
Posted On - 31/10/2017
Neil Ginger, CEO of Origin, talks about energy efficiency and the innovative options available on the market. I am often asked if the focus of the industry is shifting away from energy efficiency. The honest answer is no – people are just becoming more educated on the subject. This is a great development, and will drive the fenestration industry to...
Posted On - 31/10/2017
Apeer’s Lumi window and door range has demonstrated that you can step outside the design box and produce glazed products that are good to look at and not just through, according to MD Asa McGillian, while performing brilliantly. Regulations and customer expectations require windows and doors to perform to minimal levels, and the more expensive and avant-garde they may be,...
Posted On - 24/10/2017
By Wolfgang Gorner, group sales director, Allan Brothers. With so many timber alternative products now available, and more coming onto the market all the time, it would be tempting to think that the biggest upselling opportunity for installation companies is in the composite sector. As the sales director of the UK’s oldest timber joinery company, I would obviously take issue...
Posted On - 16/10/2017
John Mumford, co-director of Westbury Windows and Joinery, discusses how the window industry changed over the last 30 years. Thirty years ago, timber windows were tarnished with a bad reputation because many post-war windows were shoddily manufactured with cheap softwoods that had succumbed to rot by the late-70s/early-80s. I remember everybody wanting to clad their house with white PVCU windows,...
Posted On - 16/10/2017
The Genesis VS (vertical slider), with its traditional timber jointing methods to every joint, was launched at the first FIT show in 2013 by the team at Bison. The company said the Genesis VS represented a huge investment for a small company at the time but the FIT show was the perfect place for Bison to showcase its new concept....
Posted On - 16/10/2017
By Ben Brocklesby, director at Origin. The concept of the ‘forever home’ is an interesting one, and is something that we have been discussing at Origin HQ for the last month or so. We have been looking at whether Brits still believe in finding their ‘forever home’, and if so, what it actually looks like. If we can answer these...
Posted On - 27/09/2017
Pioneer’s Danny Williams answers your questions. This month: “We have been with our present profile supplier for 11 years but have recently been considering dual sourcing. Our present supplier hinted they would screw us on terms if we did, but I know that you now dual source after a long time with the same supplier. How have you found things?”...
Posted On - 27/09/2017
Choosing your fabricator is a lot more considered than it may have been years ago – it’s not just about the products they can supply but how they can actually help to grow your business, says Glazerite’s group marketing manager Michelle Wright. The face of marketing has changed massively over recent years with the rise of digital marketing. What may...
Posted On - 11/09/2017
Dekko Window Systems has helped transform one deserving family’s property as part of ITV’s hit show Love Your Home and Garden. Screened on Monday evenings to audiences in excess of four million viewers, the long-running show sees Alan Titchmarsh and his team surprise families in difficult circumstances by completely renovating their home and garden. Dekko donated one of its Räum...
Posted On - 22/08/2017
At this year’s FIT Show, Prefix Systems launched two aluminium window systems and the striking new contemporary UrbanRoom. Co-director Chris Cooke highlights his vision for complete aluminium glazed structures. Yet again the FIT Show perfectly highlighted the increased importance for aluminium windows, doors and roofs, with the vast majority of systems well represented. Aluminium is certainly enjoying a renaissance and...
Copyright 2024 | Glass Times is the Industry Leading Magazine reaching 10,531 professionals each month. 100% individually reader requested | Sitemap