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FH Brundle supplies handrail and balustrade systems, and has been serving the trade for over 130 years. Group marketing manager Paul Smith explains how the long-standing family firm is helping customers capitalise on the popularity of bespoke products designed and created from parts. In everything from furniture to fashion, beauty to home improvement, ‘bespoke’ has become one of the biggest...
Have the lockdown and resulting social distancing measures had a positive effect on safety in the workplace? We talk to Bohle’s Dave Broxton. As lockdown restrictions in the UK were eased during May and June 2020, attention turned to workplaces to see how life could return to normal while complying with new social distancing guidelines. Office work was straightforward to...
With demand continuing to grow not only in the UK but throughout Europe – and with Brexit looming on the horizon – could glass shortages continue into 2021, and what will it do to prices? Mark Herbert, joint-managing director at Mackenzie Glass, takes a look. Wuhan, the unassuming capital of China’s central Hubei province, went into lockdown at the end...
Cornwall Group has had to adapt to the Covid-19 challenge but remains focused on its objectives including acquisition and a £multi-million investment. Like everyone else, Mark Mitchell, chairman of Cornwall Group, and the new directors of the Cornwall Group, didn’t have the ‘slightest inclination’ of what was looming on the horizon. Covid-19 made the Cornwall Group’s first 12 months as...
Companies quick to respond to Covid-19 have seen rapid growth throughout lockdown and beyond. Nick Lewis, owner of SGS Glass Products, explains how he identified opportunities across a number of sectors – including hospitality and leisure, commercial, and office fit-out – for protective screens We didn’t ever stop; we were working throughout because the demand was there, and since we’ve...
IGU supply proved one of the biggest challenges for the industry’s return to work following the coronavirus pandemic. Mark Norcliffe, Cornwall Glass Manufacturing’s joint manufacturing director, talks to Glass Times about what he believes lies ahead. Glass supply became one of the industry’s biggest stumbling blocks coming out of lockdown with IGUs distinctly thin on the ground and installers unable...
The glass industry is facing a new future, thanks in no small part to Covid-19. For businesses to maintain competitive advantages and thrive in this new landscape, glass software is a vital component. Dave Thom from Smart-Builder looks at the areas to consider when choosing software. The glass industry is unique. Glass cannot be sold as merely a product code,...
Esquire Glass’s operations director Andrew Stephens explains why the company chose Flat Glass Solutions to supply its glass storage rack installation. Esquire’s core business is in the production of processed glass panels for the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom industry. With essential investment over the last three years in state-of-the-art glass processing equipment, along with the ever increasing and changing glass...
As we all adapting to a new ‘Covid safe’ working environment, what challenges do businesses face following the pandemic and how are they having to adapt? Simon Boocock, managing director of CRL Europe, examines what systems can be employed to ensure social distancing rules are followed. With businesses in the UK being encouraged to re-open following the coronavirus pandemic, one...
By CRL. In the ‘new normal’ post-pandemic world, all types of businesses have a very important task ahead of them to ensure that, as they re-open, their employees and their customers are as safe as possible. For public-facing businesses such as hair salons, beauty parlours, restaurants and bars, as well as businesses that operate within open-plan office and factory environments,...
The unprecedented coronavirus pandemic mustn’t overshadow the need for urgent action on climate change. Edgetech’s managing director Chris Alderson explains. Today, the world faces two enormous challenges: coronavirus and the environment. In the space of little more than a few weeks, Covid-19 has already radically changed the way we live and work to an extent that would’ve been unimaginable at...
Will the glass industry bounce back post-lockdown? Or will any recovery be a precursor to market contraction towards the end of the year? Glass Times talks to Mackenzie Glass. Just weeks into the easing of lockdown, the shape of the UK’s economic recovery and the cost of Covid-19 to the glass industry specifically, is still unclear. What is apparent is...
UK workers have adapted to new ways of working, but does that mean that the days of the office and opportunities for the glass sector are numbered? Glass Times talks to Bohle’s Dave Broxton. It was more than 80 years ago that the architect Frank Lloyd Wright set out his ideas for the open plan office: a place that would...
Covid-19 has had a big impact on UK industry but underlying demand and growth opportunities remain the same argues Bohle’s Dave Broxton. Things are clearly different. We have and continue to go through a period of significant personal and economic upheaval nationally and globally. It has been and it remains difficult but business goes on and demand remains. During lockdown...
IGU supply proved a key challenge for installers as the industry got back to work. Jody Vincent, national sales manager at Emplas, argues that stability of supply may be their next obstacle. One of the things that we know installers have struggled with as the industry came back is IGU supply. It’s difficult to switch a business back on; fabrication...
Matt Buckley, managing director at Pilkington UK, explains how the glass manufacturer is getting back up to speed following lockdown, and calls for cautious optimism for the months ahead - while the sector helps customers adapt to a post-Covid world. Like many sectors, Covid-19 turned glass and glazing on its head, as the shutdown of domestic installations and construction sites...
Colour, seamless welds, flush casements – they’ve all contributed to the growth of the second time replacement market. HiTech Blinds’ Ian Woolley asks: are integral blinds a fourth driver? Integral blinds promise higher margin opportunities and crucial product differentiation in the second time replacement market. They offer a ‘newness’, providing the foundation for an added-value sell, which can support installers...
As Double R Glass & Roofing Systems celebrates 20 years in business, managing director Ian Sims talks to Glass Times about the changes the company has undergone and what’s still to come for the organisation and its customers. We’re celebrating 20 years in business this year and the landscape of our operation today is completely different compared with two decades...
Centre pane failures in triple-glazed IGUs represent an area of growing industry concern. Dave Broxton, managing director of Bohle, discusses. At the beginning of this year a meeting of the GGF was held to discuss the proposed revision of Part L, which sits within the government’s wider consultation on Future Homes. The two options on the table are: one, to...
The government has announced plans for its phased return to work. Mark Knight, Cornwall Glass, argues that from an HR perspective, preparation needs to go beyond practical considerations. Remember that feeling that you get on your first day back after being away on holiday? The fact that it takes a little time to get back into the swing of things?...