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As TuffX celebrates 20 years in business, Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell met managing director Graham Price at the company’s base in Knowsley to find out how the company keeps ahead of the curve. Glass Times has been to see TuffX several times over the years, and the atmosphere within the company has always been the same: that there is...
In this two-part series, Phil Brown, European regulatory marketing manager at Pilkington UK, offers a guide to the trickier words and phrases in the glass and glazing vocabulary. Do you know your ‘gaskets’ from your ‘hermetic seals’? The glass and glazing lexicon can be a tricky one to understand, with the language stemming from the deep corners of physics, manufacturing,...
Jason McCabe, commercial and site manager for Clayton Glass, highlights the importance of being an independent, owner-managed business; investment and product innovation are key, he explains. Clayton Glass has a history that dates back 50 years and today we’re well placed as one of the UK’s largest independent glass processors and have been listed within the 1,000 Companies to Inspire...
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....
Phil Brown, European regulatory marketing manager at Pilkington UK, discusses how a new international standard could lead to an uptake in noise-control glazing. Do you know how quiet your home is? You may well do in the future, as a new international standard for classifying the sound insulation in dwellings is currently in development. This could mean we start to...
Gary Dean tells Glass Times why he decided to establish Onlevel in the UK. OnLevel has been supplying the UK market via a small selection of solid distributors for over four years. These distributors have done excellent task of growing product sales but this has been naturally constrained to some degree by logistics and the ability to stock and sell...
Having recently employed an additional chemist to concentrate purely on new product development, Thermoseal Group is set to manufacture a range products, according to the group’s marketing manager Samantha Hill. Our latest product release, to be designed in our own Innovation Centre and tested within our EN1279 test facilities, is the new Thermobar with 4mm air cavity. As a result...
Swisspacer’s head of marketing and sales for UK and Ireland John Cooper says energy efficiency is still the top concern for homeowners, and explains how Swisspacer helps fabricators and installers sell energy efficient windows. Today’s consumers have got used to looking for higher ratings on domestic appliances that save money on fuel bills. But there is work to be done...
By Chris Davis, composites manager at Kommerling UK. It is now accepted by architects that access to natural light is beneficial to the final users of the space – be that a young family, care home residents or office staff in the latest central London international HQ building. Skylines across the globe reflect this quite literally with a dazzling array...
According to industry experts, the bifold door market has grown substantially in recent years, which looks set to continue. But the sliding door market has also seen an upturn lately. Nick Welsh, managing director of SafeGuard Glass and Glazing, explains why the humble sliding door shouldn’t be overlooked. For quite some time now, in terms of patio doors, the growth...
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...
On April 10 2014, Edgetech UK hosted the Triple Glazing Question, the largest live debate in the history of the glazing industry with an audience of more than 600. Three years on, Edgetech’s head of marketing Charlotte Davies talks about the development of triple glazing since then and how Super Spacer can deliver the best performance for triple glazed units....
Gwain Paterson, managing director of Thermoseal Group, talks to Glass Times about the awards the business has won over the past 12 months. Which awards has Thermoseal Group won in the past year? It is with great honour I can tell you that we will shortly be presented with one of The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: International Trade 2017. The...
Phil Brown, European regulatory marketing manager at Pilkington UK, looks at the importance of safety marks and explains why glass processors should avoid omitting them, even if requested by request by a client. We’ve recently heard of instances where clients of glass processors have asked for the safety mark to be removed, despite regulatory requirements that safety glass intended for...
Gary Dean returns to the pages of Glass Times in a new role. Yes, I am back. Having been a little stifled by the corporate machine that instructed me that they didn't believe in PR I am now free as the co-owner and CEO of OnLevel to revisit these pages with random thoughts and reflection. I thank Andy and Mandy...
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...
Phil Brown, European regulatory marketing manager at Pilkington UK, outlines what type of glass should be supplied in settings where indoor plant life is concerned. “Will windows be bad for my indoor plants?” isn’t a question frequently put to installers or insulating glass unit (IGU) manufacturers. But it’s certainly an important concern when specifying glazing for orangeries and atria, or...