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Posted On - 28/09/2022
HWL Windows has adopted a proactive approach to the skills crisis through a highly successful college outreach programme. We talk to operations director, Phil Gray, to find out more. UK manufacturers are facing the largest shortage of skilled workers since 1989 (PWC). The sector struggles with image, a perception that wages are low and working conditions are poor. And that’s...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Howells Patent Glazing has long recognised that the fenestration industry has an ageing workforce and has sought to head this off by investing in people, training and upskilling its staff. Glass Times talks to one of Howells’ new engineering apprentices who joined the company at the start of the year. Patent glazing and rooflight manufacturer, Howells Patent Glazing, has put...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
By Tom Butler, head of sales & marketing, Fensa The GGF Skilled Pathways Scheme was launched in September 2021. It was, and continues to be, a significant investment by the federation to attract the next generation of talented workers into an industry that has an ageing workforce and a need to futureproof a number of businesses. The launch of the...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Glass Times editor, Luke Wood, talks to Flat Glass Solutions managing director, Dave Cahill, about how glass processors can save time and money, improve product quality – and operate more sustainably – with a Dieffe Macchine centrifuge. Rising costs have increased the pressure on all businesses in the glazing industry and with continuing forecasts of rising inflation, the challenge is...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
When FIT Show returns next May it will mark a decade since the event launched. We chat to FIT Show event director Nickie West to find out why FIT Show 2023 will be unmissable for the whole industry. GT: You’ve spent the last couple of months analysing the data from the 2022 event. Overall, how successful do you think the...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Patrick Burke, national sales director of Exlabesa Architecture UK, charts the soaring popularity of products designed to maximise the use of glass, and how his company’s new Glass Rail balustrade system is the natural next step in their evolution. Cutting-edge architecture is dominated by one material – glass. Look at the world’s most ambitious and spectacular buildings, and they’re covered...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
By Wayne Hunter, operations manager, Emmegi (UK) When you need to replace your router cutter or saw blade, it’s probably tempting just to choose the cheapest option – after all a blade is just a blade right? But the old adage ‘buy cheap, buy twice’ is as true when it comes to the tools and spare parts for your machine...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
By Neil Parton, MD, Elumatec Crisis – what crisis? The only way you’ll have missed doom and gloom laden headlines over the last few months is by burying your head in the sand. Indeed, some people are using that tactic, claiming current news stories are too worrying. If it’s not a war in Europe, it’s the cost of living crisis...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Deceuninck fabricator FastFrame supplied more than 1,800 tilt and turn windows and doors in a £2.1m deal after demonstrating its PVC-U products could replace the specified aluminium ones. We report. Cortland Cassiobury on Ascot Road in Watford, is a 485-home build-to-let scheme, developed by American-based Cortland. The first phase of the project involved the construction of five multi-storey blocks, the...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
A growing number of fabricators are returning to making their own IGUs. Tony Palmer, head of sales at Edgetech, comments on the phenomenon. It feels like we’ve been through more crisis situations in the last few years than you see in the average decade. Each time things seem at risk of getting back to normal, some new challenge emerges that...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Dual Seal Glass, one of the UK’s leading independent glass processors was acquired by Vandaglas in February this year. Now trading as Dualseal, Glass Times editor Luke Wood, talks to managing director, Nils Matthies, to learn more about the acquisition and the company’s plans for the future. Dual Seal Glass was founded in Huddersfield, 1995, by father and son team,...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
In a shrinking market, opportunities are only evident if you have the products to make the most of them. We talk to Deceuninck Aluminium’s Nigel Headford for examples. For many businesses up and down the supply chain, the many challenges facing the fenestration industry tend to obscure the opportunities. Currently, the rising cost of energy and fuel is creating inflationary...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Hoping for the best isn’t a strategy Hoping for the best is not a strategy, indeed overoptimism is the enemy of critical and creative thinking. Over the years and especially in sales management roles, I heard many more times than I care to recall that the customer was ‘on the brink of buying’, that he ‘just needed to clear his...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Transporting and handling glass, for installation and maintenance purposes on commercial and residential projects may be all part of the job but doing so safely and efficiently takes the right equipment and a knowledge of how to handle it with care. Simon Boocock, managing director of CRL Europe, takes a look at some of the options. Working with glass isn’t...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Friction stay specialist, Cotswold, is going it alone following the sale of former owner, Caldwell. New managing director, Tim Ferkin, tells the story. In the nearly 50-years since it was first founded, Cotswold is a business that’s had many guises – and seen a huge amount of change. From the very beginning, it was historic – the first UK-based manufacturer...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Switching to electric powered materials handling equipment is not only good for the environment but also for your workforce, your neighbours and your balance sheet – says specialist handling manufacturer Combilift. When Combilift was established in 1998, the world was quite a different place. In that year, Google was incorporated as a private company in California and only 9% of...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Choosing your specialist suppliers should not just come down to product and price, according to Wayne Irvine, managing director of AW Louvers. They can have so much more to offer. No matter how much control you take over a product’s design, manufacture and installation, there are always elements that will need input from a third-party specialist. And in today’s market,...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Aluplast has launched Energeto Neo, a radical new energy efficient profile that can create windows with a U-value of just 0.9W/m2K with a standard double glazed unit. We talk to Ian Cocken, sales and marketing director at Aluplast, to find out more. Since Approved Document L of the Building Regulations was introduced in 1995, the target U-values for the building...
Posted On - 07/09/2022
Vetro Tooling is well known in the glass and stone industry, not only for providing tooling but for having its own state-of-the-art workshop and engineering team at its premises. In 2019, the company partnered with two leading Italian machinery manufacturers, Denver Glass and Stone Machinery and Zafferani Glas and has since gone from strength to strength, building up its team...
Posted On - 07/09/2022
Glass Times speaks to Ultraframe marketing director, Alex Hewitt, about how Ultraframe has achieved the new U-Values required by Building Regulations for solid roofs. As we all know, the Building Regulations changed in June and there has been much work to do in sectors right across the industry to reach the new standards set for U-Values. Within Ultraframe, a huge...
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