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Posted On - 09/11/2022
As the market changes and demand slows, Glass Times speaks to Roseview director Mike Bygrave about the role of heritage windows in a more difficult economic climate. It’s now clear that the extraordinary levels of demand we’ve seen over the last two years are falling back. Across the home improvement and glazing industries enquiries and sales are dropping to pre-pandemic...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Sales and marketing are vital drivers of organic business growth. Which is why Quickslide’s marketing support extends way beyond supplying a pull-up banner and a window sample for their customers’ showrooms, as marketing manager, Sandra Berg, explains. As one of the industry's leading manufacturers and trade suppliers of windows and doors, Quickslide understands the importance of quality not only when...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
If you are going to supply a lantern that taps into the trend for extending family homes, then choose one that benefits everybody, argues Listers’ MD Roy Frost. Every installer knows that having a reliable lantern in your product portfolio is key to winning wider business. Home improvement projects that either include an extension, or are designed to bring more...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
We talk to Listers MD, Roy Frost, who explains how rising energy costs have primed owners of period properties for energy efficient home improvements. Period appeal is one thing. The cost of maintaining and heating an older property is another. While we may love period features, open fireplaces, high ceilings – and often original single-glazed windows – rising energy costs...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Made For Trade’s Chris Wann explains why the Korniche lantern roof is still the product to which others are compared in terms of security, construction, aesthetics and ease of installation. Launched in 2016, the Korniche roof Lantern was not only catapulted straight to the top of the desirability stakes for flat roof glazing, but its game-changing, engineering-led design – backed...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
By Alex Tremlett, operations manager at Insight Data During the last few years, when the industry saw a huge increase in demand, some companies raised their overheads. Whether business leaders chose to expand their teams or premises, their monthly expenses rocketed in a bid to keep up with the high number of new job requests. But now, as the market...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Hurst Doors says it has been winning over customers with its online customer portal, Hurst Live, which enables them to manage all aspects of their account in one place. Mark Atkinson, Hurst’s sales director, said: “Customers quite rightly want the best service, particularly in the last two years when the supply chain has become so challenging, and as a manufacturer...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Tracey Jackson, business development manager at Howells Patent Glazing understands a thing or two about heritage. Not least because her father, Walter Howells, was the driving force behind the company’s inception more than 40 years’ ago, in 1973. Now said to be one of most respected manufacturers in the Black Country, Howells has built a reputation for delivering sensitive, high-quality...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
When fabricators think about automation, they often assume it just relates to large output machining centres – but they would be wrong. Matt Thomas, MD at Haffner, discusses the benefits of automation throughout the fabrication process and highlights its biggest advantage right now. The benefits of automating window and door fabrication have always been clear. Machine automation can boost efficiency...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
By Dave Palmer, GGF technical officer. The year is 1977. The place is a parking lot in Barnsley. The man is Stanley Race, the then president of the Glass Manufacturing Federation. On 6 June he dropped an empty glass jar into the UK’s founding glass recycling bin. Together with Ron England, Race developed this first of over 50,000 ‘bottle banks’...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
We talk to Pioneer’s Danny Williams, who explains more about the success of launching the Gerda entrance door range at FIT Show 2022. This year’s FIT show is history now, with the campaign for the 2023 event well underway. However, while the hype has died down, the effects are still being felt as exhibitors and visitors work on deals first...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
By Gary Dean If you have been disconnected during a Teams or Zoom call (haven’t we all?), or even one of those ‘old-fashioned’ phone calls, you know how frustrating it is. Your connection is lost and so is your opportunity and ability to influence the moment. This month’s article is about this very subject, disconnection in business, because whilst we...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Fabricators are looking at new opportunities as the market starts to slow, but what may look good on paper may end up costing more in the long term. We ask First Degree Systems’ Greg Beachim where efficiencies can be found. The ability to adapt as markets contract and demands change is a defining feature of successful fabricators. Factories that are...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
First Degree Systems’ sales manager, Greg Beachim, explains that many companies could access more efficient ways of working if they moved to a rental model for their software provision. As a window design software provider to some of the best window fabricators in the UK, we get the insights necessary to develop our products and services. But we also get...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Paul James, sales director at Extrudaseal, discusses the benefits of foam gaskets for bi-fold doors. Although only a small part of the final product, a gasket can make a huge difference to the operation and performance of a window or door. Even if you have the most advanced system on the market, a door with an under-performing gasket can have...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
With tougher economic challenges ahead, capitalising on market opportunities has never been more important. Phil Parry, business development director at Epwin Window Systems discusses the products to help make the most of those opportunities. Research has shown that home improvement trends have remained fairly constant over the past few years. For homeowners planning to make home improvements in 2022, the...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Ideal Window Solutions made the decision to back Emplas in a new three-year deal on the strength of its support for its work in commercial markets. The figures tell a story. The Government has targeted the commercial sector with delivering 300,000 new homes a year by the middle of this decade. In England between 1 April and the 31st of...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
By Owen Jones, technical director at Distinction Doors. The energy bills price cap will go some way to alleviate the pressure on many UK households, but it is only a sticking plaster. Fundamentally, the way we build, maintain and run our homes must change. Not just in the face of rising energy costs and limited energy supplies, but as a...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Glass Times talks to AJ Hassanali, director of aluminium trade supplier, Direct Trade Windows. In an increasingly competitive market, a quality product offering matched with competitive prices and quick turnaround times – as well as dedicated customer support – is a valuable offer. And suppliers who can offer ‘the full package’ are understandably in high demand. “There’s been massive disruption throughout...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
We talk to Deceuninck’s MD Rob McGlennon to discuss why projects with heritage features are commonplace today, and why they are so important. In most window and door showrooms around the UK, the typical homeowner will be faced with an array of window styles in a wide range of finishes. While window designs and colours were expanded to meet the...
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