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Promac’s Joe Hague asks if the growing influence and increasing automation introduced by large fabricators mean that the writing is on the wall for small and medium-sized manufacturers. Consolidation goes hand-in-hand with market maturity and the list of acquisitions and mergers in the glass processing and fabrication sector is long. This has done two things: it’s created new and larger...
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...
Emmegi’s success in the UK over the last decade has largely mirrored the success of the aluminium sector as a whole. Surging demand for our machines has reflected the growth in demand for the material and, in particular, the trend amongst PU fabricators to add aluminium products to their portfolios. What has made it particularly attractive for those fabricators has...
The technology behind modern CNC machines is extraordinary says Mighton’s Mike Derham, but sometimes ‘small and specific’ works too. Unless your joinery business is dedicated to producing every piece by hand, you will be reliant to one degree or another on machinery during the production process. These days, with the cost of complex CNC equipment coming within the budgets of...
Stuga Machinery’s Steve Haines explains how the company had a busy 2017 building a wide variety of machines while designing a new top of the range sawing and machining centre, now known as the ZX5. There are three ZX5s installed in the market with two more on order, and it is looking like this new model may eclipse the popular...
90° and specialist welds have seen exponential growth, so if a new machinery platform is on your shopping list what are the pros and cons of each? Joe Hague, Promac discusses. Innovation in welding technologies has driven a step-change in PVCU manufacture. Growth in the PVCU window market, for example, slowed to 1.2% last year but that’s less of an...
Following my visit to the Hannover Trade Fair in Germany 2011, I was struck by the importance and relevance of the new buzzword ‘Industrie 4.0’. I knew that I had to ensure that Stuga products would be designed to allow our customers to make the most of this exciting revolution. Following this, Stuga has been designing and developing features that...
We’ve seen vast leaps in manufacturing technology over the past few decades; the machines being produced today are faster, more efficient, and more intelligent than ever before. But as we move further into the 21st century, the biggest advances aren’t coming from machinery, they’re coming from technology and connecting machines to computers and other devices via the internet. Fabrication is...
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...
Much of what is described under ‘Industry 4.0’ will already be familiar to Eurocell fabricators and is part of the company’s evolving working methods, according to Ian Kernaghan, Eurocell’s product manager. The smart factory, or Industry 4.0, is not a concept like ‘lean manufacturing’ with principles and best practice, in my view. Instead it is a handy catch-all term for...
From augmented reality to increased manufacturing efficiency, Roberto Canassa, director of IT at Emplas, argues that regardless of the platform, technology must deliver better customer experience. The window industry is very fragmented. We still rely on volume – frames per week – as a measure of success, when what we should be measuring is our ability to not just meet...
On the back of a year that saw Thermoseal win numerous awards – including Export Champion of the Year in the Amazon Growing Business Awards, the Queen’s Award for Enterprise (International Trade 2017), and the Derek Bonnard Award for Excellence at the G-Awards – head of marketing and communications Samantha Hill discusses the company’s current export business plans. Manufacturing and...
Many pundits are predicting the best conditions for decades for timber window sales in the home improvement sector. But Mighton’s Mike Derham believes it’s important to sell like for like against PVCU and aluminium, and great hardware is a key feature. Mighton Products sells a wide range of hardware for frames manufactured in all materials, but we major on high...
Bob Wallis of Window Tech Trade explains how he has turned his back on the manufacture of a standard product, and is instead winning business on a highly focused offer. People were saying a few years ago that super-fabricators were going to take over the industry and it didn’t happen – but I think we’re now at that point; I...
The ProfteQ machining, milling and welding platform combines affordability and advanced engineering, according to Lee Marriott, sales and marketing manager at Promac Group, who explains what it offers fabricators. The ProfteQ milling and welding platform makes timber-look joints in PVCU accessible for a price tag that should be affordable to anyone in fabrication. When we saw its potential reach, we...
By Stuga’s Steve Haines. With fabricators updating machinery to help keep them at the leading edge of production technology it was important for Stuga to continue to update its range of automatic sawing and machining centres. As market leader in sawing and machining Stuga is always targeted by competitors as ‘the one to beat’ in the UK. With most competition...
Stuga’s Steve Haines considers how is the PVCU window and door frame market progressed in 2017. After talking to customers and some well-connected people, Stuga has come to the conclusion that the PVCU window industry is very likely to be around 10% to 15% down in money terms, and 15% to 20% down in volume terms by the end of...
By Ian Latimer, managing director of Emmegi (UK). Deloitte recently published a survey claiming that 26% of non-British workers are thinking of leaving the UK by 2020, and 36% by 2022. For the large numbers of fabricators who employ migrant workers, those are fairly chastening figures. Obviously, not all of these non-British workers will be skilled, but it does highlight...
Following on from Elumatec’s successful TechDays event, managing director Phil Heavey discusses the firm’s production software offering. The 20th century might not feel all that long ago, but in technological terms, it’s a different age. In fenestration and construction, we’ve seen a dramatic transformation – one that’s made businesses bigger, better, and more productive than ever before. But it’s also...
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...