Posted On - 20/10/2021
Quickslide’s chairman Adrian Barraclough says that installers who don’t offer heritage windows are threatening self-extinction. With Quickslide being largely founded upon the development and manufacture of what are now broadly known as ‘heritage’ windows, one might expect me to have some strident views about their importance to the replacement window and door sector. However, I would go so far as...
Posted On - 24/09/2021
By Mike Parczuk, managing director of Sternfenster. Things still look pretty good: our customers are busy (maybe too busy), and the housing market remains strong, with house price growth, according to the Nationwide, up 2.1% and 11% annually. That’s important because we know confidence and activity in the housing market drives investment in home improvement. There’s a growing consensus that...
Posted On - 24/09/2021
Victoria Brocklesby, COO at Origin, discusses how the company has supported its partners respond to the increase in demand over the last 18 months. Over the entire pandemic period, more and more people have decided to renovate or update their homes. For many, working from home has become the new normal, following long stretches of time doing so during lockdown....
Posted On - 24/09/2021
Graham Howatson, director at HWL Trade Frames, explains how a global shortage of PA66 compound, a key component of polyamide thermal breaks, has highlighted the technology of the fabricator’s new Sheerline Prestige product range. Material shortages have been affecting the industry since the end of 2020. We’ve had issues with glass, PVC resin and hardware, and now we are seeing...
Posted On - 22/09/2021
Ryan Johnson, managing director of Emplas, argues less may be more when it comes to the government’s plans for green homes. “Overly ambitious” and “poorly executed”. Not my words but the findings of the National Audit Office (NAO) in its September report on the Green Homes Grant scheme. It ran from September last year to March this year. Making grants...
Posted On - 20/08/2021
Having recently led the management buyout of trade fabricator Glazerite UK Group, MD Robert Brearley reflects on the company’s offering, and shares his plans for the fabricator’s future. Joining a company and leading it through a management buyout during a global pandemic was certainly challenging, but that’s something I’m always up for. There is no doubt that this is one...
Posted On - 19/08/2021
Victorian Sliders’ marketing manager Geoff Bishop explains why the company has experienced record-breaking sales in the first half of 2021. Last March, I don’t think any of us could’ve predicted the situation our sector would be in nearly 18 months later. Back then, prospects looked bleak: society was on the brink of shutting down almost entirely. But Victorian Sliders, and...
Posted On - 19/08/2021
Active Windows’ managing director Norman Wood explains how Aluplast has given the company a competitive advantage. We manufacture and sell directly to homeowners and our business model is based on delivering quality not quantity, and working with the Aluplast system allows us to do just that. We know it’s a superior, more robust product than other PVC systems on the...
Posted On - 18/08/2021
Victoria Brocklesby, COO at Origin, discusses the impact of the pandemic on demand for home improvements and how this demand will affect the fenestration industry. For many, the pandemic has been an incredibly challenging time, testing our economic and environmental resolve. Thankfully, slowly but surely, we are emerging out the other side. Over the past 18 months, we have seen...
Posted On - 17/08/2021
By Ben Brocklesby, director at Origin. At Origin, we are constantly innovating to ensure we offer the best products and levels of service to our partners. Our aim is to make their lives as hassle-free as we can. One way we have done this is by launching our latest product – the OS-29 sliding door system – to provide another...
Posted On - 11/08/2021
Dekko Window Systems’ sales director Kurt Greatrex explains how strategic planning can help overcome supply issues. The past 18 months have seen pressure on the glazing industry’s supply chain like never before. A global pandemic and subsequent lockdowns prevented people from enjoying holidays abroad and spending money as they usually would. Therefore, many consumers managed to save money. In fact,...
Posted On - 10/08/2021
Tracy Garrod, who leads a customer services team of five at Made For Trade, explains why quality service is an important part of the company ethos. The combination of the best products, at the best prices, backed up with the best service were the building blocks to MFT’s success when it was incorporated in 1979, and they still form the...
Posted On - 22/07/2021
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 - 22/07/2021
Emplas’s new aluminium offer extends beyond bifold and inline sliding doors, explains Jody Vincent, sales director at Emplas. Emplas isn’t new to aluminium, even though our offer is. We have decades of experience in commercial aluminium supply, which we have been applying to a new trade offer since May. We have a 20,000ft2 standalone aluminium manufacturing facility, and extensive expertise...
Posted On - 20/07/2021
By Ben Brocklesby, director at Origin. The gold standard of service we provide to our partners is what sets Origin apart from the rest of the market. Our partners are paramount to our business, and we are passionate about supporting them. We demonstrate this commitment by continually innovating to bring them the best products on the market. We also offer...
Posted On - 20/07/2021
Euramax managing director Nick Cowley discusses if fenestration’s focus on maximising product choice has been a benefit or a hindrance. Not enough, and you risk not being able to meet your customers’ needs, and losing valuable business. But offer too much, and the logistics become a nightmare. It adds complexity to your processes – the very thing so much modern...
Posted On - 20/07/2021
Ryan Johnson, managing director at Emplas, considers what’s on the horizon in the months ahead. While it was agonising to watch England lose in the final of the Euros 2020, at least it represented some sort of return to normal. There is a sense that things are returning, at least to a point, to where they were: bars and restaurants...
Posted On - 16/07/2021
Roseview will be showcasing its smart technology collaboration with Rehau on its stand at the FIT Show in September. Director Mike Bygrave reveals all. There are few elements of our industry more traditional than sash windows. They’ve been a quintessential part of British architecture for more than 300 years, and they’re what Roseview is known for. But while style remains...
Posted On - 14/07/2021
The market is learning the hard way that booming sales are being tempered by tough supply conditions. But it will be all right in the end, says Asa McGillian, MD of composite door brand Apeer. When Britain was locked down in March last year, we padlocked the gates of the Apeer’s seven-acre site in Ballymena and, after appointing key members...
Posted On - 06/07/2021
By Russell Yates, managing director of AluFold Direct. The Bank of England has just raised its estimate for UK GDP growth in 2021 to 7.25%, up from the 5% it forecast in February. Further easing of restrictions, it says, will pave the way for a boom in pent-up demand. Alongside that, construction industry data from the Purchasing Managers’ Index shows...
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