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Posted On - 20/11/2019
While automated production is rife in the window and door fabrication industry, Quickslide is matching its investment in state-of-the-art kit with a focus on its people. The company’s chairman Adrian Barraclough explains. Quickslide has a policy of bringing as many of its production processes in house, which means the company’s financial investment has been prodigious. Nonetheless, it is the company’s...
Posted On - 20/11/2019
Jason Thompson, group managing director of Glazerite UK, reflects on 20 years in business, and what 2020 will bring the fabricator and its installer partners. There’re some big events happening in 2020. The Euros, the Olympics and the US presidential elections to name just a few. For Glazerite though, next year marks our 20th year in business. Established in 2000...
Posted On - 20/11/2019
By Weru. There are a huge variety of bespoke options to consider when planning windows for a new or existing build: foil or paint finish; light or dark colours; wood grain flat smooth or texture. But first let’s discuss colour trends. From a manufacturer’s point of view, the demand for plain white has declined rapidly over the past five years,...
Posted On - 20/11/2019
Vertik-Al will be the powder coater of choice for a new generation of fabricators and buyers, according to John Park-Davies, Vertik-Al’s group marketing director. There’s no denying that we’re all experiencing unprecedented change. Whether that’s opportunities, diversification, expansion or divestment, the fenestration market, like many UK industries, is shifting and evolving. Vertik-Al has been powder coating for over 50 years...
Posted On - 20/11/2019
By Ian Searle, director of MI Products. Despite the Equality and Human Rights Commission inquiry (EMHRC) in 2018, which reported that 365,000 disabled people say their home is not suitable for their needs, not enough is being done to deal with accessibility issue in UK homes. With a third of a million people needing urgent action for their properties to...
Posted On - 20/11/2019
By Rob McGlennon, managing director of Deceuninck. By law, financial advisors must get customers to assess their attitude to risk before they invest. Most people see the sense in that, and I think we’d have fewer business failures if everyone had to assess the attitude of business owners or businesses to risk. Too many businesses play down the probability of...
Posted On - 20/11/2019
By Mike Rushen, Winkhaus UK sales director. Responding to continuing growth in the UK aluminium sector, Winkhaus offers a comprehensive and expanding range of locking solutions for both aluminium windows and doors across all market sectors. From standard lift lever to automatic locks, the Winkhaus range includes options for residential, communal, bifolds, and double entrance doors. Thoughtful design has ensured...
Posted On - 20/11/2019
Wojciech Brozyna, MD of Aluprof UK, discusses the company’s successes in the UK. In Poland we have always viewed the UK as a challenge for us; we knew that it would not be easy to set up and gain projects from a virtually unknown system such as ours. We had the benefit of logistics behind us, as we were already...
Posted On - 20/11/2019
CAB CEO Justin Ratcliffe looks at recent activities in the association’s 25th anniversary year, highlighting membership growth, a successful Glazing Summit, and how the association continues to protect, defend and promote its members. Jade Greenhow, operations director at Insight Data, revealed some intriguing data at the Glazing Summit 2019, including a near 9% increase in aluminium fabricators from 2017 to...
Posted On - 14/11/2019
Thermoseal Group’s sales director Mark Hickox talks about energy efficiency and how proposed revisions to Document L are set to change the current energy efficiency requirements for glazing. Like everything else, the construction industry is continually evolving and changes are influenced by many factors such as legislation, technological changes, market trends, capital investment, industry structure, and overall management. Thermoseal Group...
Posted On - 15/10/2019
By Ultion. The Ultion lock has been fitted as standard for many years by The Glazerite UK Group, offering homeowners safe, secure doors that stop burglars entering their homes.The pressure for door manufacturers to enter the smart home market has been vast, with homeowners wanting the same convenience over opening their front door, as they have over much of their...
Posted On - 15/10/2019
The folding restrictor from manufacturer Jackloc is the strongest on the market, according to managing director Eric Collins. Window restrictors are important in environments with children, vulnerable adults and patients in care, to prevent falls and to provide protection. With a good quality restrictor in place, these places can enjoy the benefits of having windows open, while staff can have...
Posted On - 15/10/2019
Phil Brown, technical advisory service manager at Pilkington UK, discusses whether the self-cleaning glass market could face disruption from the rise of robots, as building managers look at alternative solutions to keeping facades sparkling. Cleaning glass-clad skyscrapers can be a mammoth task. Did you know it takes three months to clean the 24,000 windows on the Burj Khalifa, the world’s...
Posted On - 15/10/2019
By Forel. Artigianvetro is a company based in San Severino Marche (Italy), founded by Graziano Marcantonelli in 1985. Two 20-year-old glaziers, a van, 120m2 but much enthusiasm and passion: these are the ingredients with which the company was established, and today it supplies structural, residential, commercial and interior glass products. Artigianvetro has had several site changes since the first site....
Posted On - 15/10/2019
Sarah Hitchings, sales and marketing director of The Residence Collection, talks about its new range of engineered doors. Consumers love our windows because they are beautifully designed and packed with the very latest product engineering principles for PVCU windows and doors. Throughout The Residence Collection each window and door collection are stand out products with many unique product features, which...
Posted On - 15/10/2019
In 2018 Distinction Doors embarked upon a significant investment programme designed to increase production efficiency, product quality and output. At the heart of that investment is a significant commitment to automation, as MD Gareth Williams explains. While the original business model of Distinction Doors was based on shipping large volumes of door blanks to fabricators, increasing numbers of the company’s...
Posted On - 15/10/2019
UK homeowners have spent £295 billion on renovating their homes over the past five years, with the remodelling of kitchens offering one of the biggest investment returns according to a recent survey by Post Office Money. Sabahudin Medic, operations director at Roof Maker, explores the increasing role wall abutment rooflights are playing in renovation projects and the latest innovations. With...
Posted On - 15/10/2019
When it comes to deciding on windows for a property, consumer choice is as wide as ever. Yet, despite this wide array of options, demand for products that are cost-effective and aesthetically appealing remains strong. Clare Higgins, product manager at Rehau, explores how the PVCU market is adapting to homeowners’ changing design preferences, and offering realistic flush alternatives. Windows play...
Posted On - 15/10/2019
By Martin Thurley, group MD of Liniar. The 2016 referendum seems like a lifetime ago and just yesterday, both at the same time. Every day the media is full of warnings of a no-deal Brexit but not much detail about what that means. And as the October 31 deadline fast approaches for the UK to leave the EU, a no-deal...
Posted On - 15/10/2019
Garnalex CEO Roger Hartshorn explains what’s driving the growth in residential aluminium windows and doors, and how his team of experts are reinventing aluminium. Since the 1980s, aluminium windows and doors were virtually confined to the commercial market, and PVC had the residential windows and doors market more or less to itself. Then in the early 2000s house prices began...
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