Window and Door Machinery
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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...
With mixed industry forecasts, Lee Marriott of the Promac Group explains why it’s the right time to move into aluminium and how to do it. Forecast to reach a 17-year high, at a time when the whole industry is predicted to see contraction, putting on 24% growth in the last year alone – it appears our appetite for aluminium is...
As Spectus opens up new heritage opportunities by adding a mechanically jointed option to its vertical slider, Spectus Brand Manager Carmen Velilla explores why the window remains a popular choice. There’s no denying the elegance of a sash window; it’s a design that has lasted for centuries for good reason – the perfect complement to beautiful 18th, 19th and early...
Aluminium is forecast to reach 220,000 frames a year by 2020. Dave Thomas, managing director of Haffner Murat, says that if you want to take advantage of the opportunities, you need to make sure you are properly equipped to do so. PVCU has been – and still is – the dominant material in our industry. But there’s no denying that...
By Ian Latimer, managing director of Emmegi (UK). Many fabricators only buy a new machine from us once every five years or so, yet they still rightly very much consider us to be their machinery partner. At the FIT Show, it was noticeable just how many of the visitors on our stand were existing customers – some had ordered machines...
The Flamstead Group, owners of HL Plastics, purchased Wegoma GB in 2014, has reported that the success of the partnership becomes more obvious with each passing day. Avantek sales director Nigel Bishop explains. I’ve worked in the window industry for most of my career, and even I was a little sceptical about how a systems company and a machinery company...
Seamless welding technologies have redefined PVCU window manufacture but until now sill manufacture has remained more or less the same. Jamie Munday, Promac’s sales manager, explains how the SLS Seamless Sill Welder is about to change that. Graf Synergy and FOM announced the formation of the new FOM-GS Group at the end of last year. It brings two global leaders...
Joe Hague, managing director of Promac Group, explains how the Graf Synergy SL4FF has been instrumental in driving the PVCU market, and how new platforms from the FOM-GS Group can support all fabricators in accessing it. The latest figures suggest that although the direct sell market fell by 1.1% in volume terms in 2015, it grew in installed value to £2.35...
As part of an ongoing quest to make joinery production quicker, easier and more efficient for the small or large-scale operator, Mighton Products recently set its sights on developing its own brand range of machinery. Drawing on his personal joinery experience, chairman Mike Derham worked with the Mighton team over a number of months devising a collection of machines that...
MD Joe Hague explains how Promac Group is bringing low cost, high return innovations to the UK window industry. We have equipment on our stand at this year’s FIT Show that can transform your business for very little capital investment. This includes delivering improved product quality, improved performance, and increased yield, which directly transfers to increased profit. Promac Group has...
Emmegi (UK) has been at every FIT Show so far, and its stands keep getting bigger. That’s primarily because every show has generated a real return for the aluminium machinery specialist, but is also a reflection of its ongoing success and growing status in the market. Managing director Ian Latimer said: “Our stand is a massive 220m² this time around,...
Machinery manufacturer Elumatec is coming to the FIT Show, but not in the form that many might expect. Managing director Phil Heavey explains. While Elumatec made its name supplying machines that manufacture aluminium profile, at the FIT Show, the firm’s stand will be dominated by products that machine PVCU. We’ve been delighted by the level of success we’ve been able...
When it comes to machinery companies, you’d think automation was the way forward, but Avantek Machinery is keen to point out that there’s no replacement for people when it comes to delivering exceptional customer service, as sales director Nigel Bishop explains. I’ve been in this industry for almost 20 years, and have seen many advances in technology, enabling exciting new...
Fabricators have been hit by a round of price increases, which has prompted Promac’s managing director Joe Hague to explain how automation is offsetting costs ready for long-term growth. It started as a trickle but going into the start of this year almost all systems companies, float glass processors as well as component suppliers have introduced price increases of one...
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...
As we settle into a new year, Haffner Murat’s Dave Thomas assesses what’s in store and looks at how to make the most of it. The start of a new year is traditionally a time for optimism and, despite a greater sense of uncertainty than we usually face, I see no need for this new year to be any different....
Pioneer’s Danny Williams answers your questions. This month: “We are a small fabricator making up to 250 windows and doors a week, which we are selling mostly to local installers/builders, and around a third of those installed by our retail company. Most of our kit needs renewing as it comes to the end of its life. We are facing that...