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Chris Alderson, managing director of Edgetech, explains how automation is already changing the way fenestration businesses operate. We’re living through the rise of the machines. There were 1.9 million industrial robots in the world in 2014, according to US think-tank the Brookings Institute. By 2020, that’s expected to have risen to almost 3 million. Everywhere you look, businesses and industries...
Phil Brown, European regulatory marketing manager for Pilkington UK, discusses how policy changes, emerging construction trends and new technology could help to stimulate the energy efficiency market over the next five years. There’s plenty of activity concerning the energy efficiency of buildings, with product development and innovation, policy changes, and emerging trends in construction. However, over the next five years...
Ryan Green, managing director of Clayton Glass, discusses how its #theclaytondifference is designed to help build lasting relationships. The IGU market has undergone a period of consolidation over the last five years with companies and groups quickly building volume, yet at what cost? The personal relationships that have built some of the smaller glass processors seemingly get lost overnight, once...
Esquire Glass’s general manager Andrew Stephens explains why customer service, waste reduction, production efficiency and environmental benefits were just four of the reasons why the company invested in Intermac’s products. Esquire’s core business is in the production of processed glass panels for the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom industry. However, since 2002 substantial investment in a second factory and state-of-the-art glass...
As Liverpool’s Custom Glass celebrates 30 years in business this year, owner and managing director Jeff Hooson tells Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell how the company has continued to maintain an efficient business and a relevant product offering. Jeff Hooson, owner and managing director of Liverpool’s Custom Glass, is an experienced glass man, having followed his father into the glass...
Bohle hands over this month’s column to Gary Smith, site director at Novaglaze’s Huddersfield curved and flat glass processing facility, whose projects have included the London Eye. We offer a comprehensive range of products curved and flat processing. This includes standard IGUs and increasingly over-sized IGUs, which are supplied into architectural glass markets. We also process a wide range of...
Dave Broxton, managing director of Bohle, explains why the increased size of IGUs makes their safe manual handling more important than ever. Things are getting bigger in glass. Our demand for natural light means that bifolding, sliding doors, bonded glass sashes and fixed lights are becoming ever larger and that creates challenges in their manual handling. Insulated glazed units of...
Regulatory change in the form of Part Q is forecast to deliver a significant uplift in demand for laminate glass on top of pre-existing growth. Dave Broxton, managing director at Bohle, argues that as glass processors try to extract greater output from their laminating lines, choosing the best cutting wheel technology has never been more important., It’s a numbers game....
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell met Tina Moorhouse, managing director of Oakland Glass, to discuss how the market for toughened glass has changed over the last 20 years. Oakland Glass, which recently celebrated its 30th birthday, is something of a veteren when it comes to toughened glass, having bought its first furnace in 1997. “Back then it was a niche...
With FIT now behind us, MD of Bohle Dave Broxton discusses what the show tells us about trends in the UK glazing industry. Innovation and diversification go hand in hand with industry exhibitions. If you track industry expos such as Glassex from the early 1990s, we’ve had the white PVC juggernaut, coloured and wood grain foiling, the rise and fall...
Glass Times reports on how Bohle’s R&D programme is driving change in the glass processing sector. Listed as among Germany’s most innovative SME’s by Business Week – no small achievement in a country renowned for manufacturing innovation – Bohle has been at the forefront of innovation in glass processing technologies for almost a century. “It’s quite amazing to see where...
Dave Broxton, managing director of Bohle, warns that glass processors could face potentially crippling fines if they’re found to have polluted water systems. In March, Thames Water was fined a record £20.4 million for polluting the River Thames with 1.4 billion litres of raw sewage. The company allowed huge amounts of untreated effluent to enter the waterway in Oxfordshire...
Consolidation in the glass processing sector has continued with Cornwall Glass’s acquisition of LW Architectural Glass. Glass Times reports. Cornwall Glass announced its acquisition of LW Architectural Glass last month. Completed at the end of March, the deal saw the £4m turnover former glass division of commercial and architectural specialist, Lee Warren Fabrication and Design, become the latest acquisition by...
The comparison of two Spanish Lisec customers shows different sales approaches within one country: Cristec is exporting, while Termiglass relies on the supply of regional customers that are a maximum of 100 km away. Cristec is located in the north of Spain, about 150 km from Barcelona. Founded in 1987 the company now employs 63 people and has a yearly...
Double R Glass & Roofing Systems has invested in the world’s fastest vertical Super Spacer automatic hot melt IGU line. MD Ian Sims explains why. The commissioning of the world’s fastest vertical Super Spacer automatic hot melt IGU line is now complete at Double R’s Wellingborough manufacturing facility. Our significant deal with the Promac Group will not only provide much-needed...
Biesse Group UK is expanding its operations to meet increasing demands. Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell visited the manufacturing sites in Italy to see what is driving this reported growth. Based in Pesaro, Italy, the Biesse Group is on target to exceed 550 million euros years, which represents a 20% year-on-year increase, despite the global economy struggling to reach top...
Glasstec offers an insight into the trends that are defining glass processing, now and into the future. Dave Broxton, managing director, Bohle explains. Glasstec is on an altogether different scale. It’s not just the size of Düsseldorf’s Messe exhibition centre, it’s about who is there, where they come from, and what they have to say. Glasstec is about leading-edge global...
How does a company like Cwmtillery Glass get to a point where it is making 3,000 units a day without having a dedicated salesman on the road? Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell went to find out. There was a moment of realisation on Cwmtillery Glass owner Paul Hayward’s face when he told Glass Times that his company near Ebbw Vale...
Caldwells Windows recently installed a Cooltemper toughening plant from Unilam Machinery, in a bid to assert more control over its glass supply. Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell visited the factory in Wigan to see if it has made a difference. You either source your glass from a specialist glass supplier, or you aim for excellence when producing glass for your...
The UK faces a shortage of skilled workers, particularly in construction and manufacturing. We report on how Bohle is helping to meet the challenge. “The first thing we do when people come in to attend the course is to sit them down and explain that it’s not about top-down learning but shared learning,” Amanda Carr, Bohle’s business development executive, said....