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Russell Hand, head of product management and technical, discusses how the Connect platform is becoming a fundamental part of growing fabricator and installers’ businesses. The events of 2020 have accelerated many modern trends; for example, daily life has long been nigh-on-impossible without a smartphone in hand, and the pandemic has accelerated this trend. In fact, TeleGeography reported that Europe’s international...
Safeseal Frames managing director Phill Pluck explains why, three years ago, he switched to Liniar, and what has happened since then. At Safeseal Frames we really do love Liniar, and we're not just saying that. It all began in 2017 when I was working with then Avantek managing director Nigel Bishop to replace some worn-out machinery. During our discussions, Nigel...
Are aluminium windows and doors difficult to fabricate? Many in our industry think so, and shy away from a hugely lucrative market as a result, according to Kevin Warner, sales director at Exlabesa Building Systems, who points to his company’s components range, 75% of which is compatible with multiple products, to prove it. In glass and glazing, aluminium has the...
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell attended Deceuninck Aluminium’s open day just before Christmas, albeit virtually. A year ago, Glass Times met Deceuninck Aluminium’s managing director Nigel Headford to discuss the launch of the company’s new aluminium system, Decalu, starting with the bifold door. It was an ambitious project, aiming to carve a niche within an expanding specialist market. However, Deceuninck...
By Aluprof. High rise apartment living is on the increase in our cities and one of the fastest growing cities to live in is Manchester where the population has increased to 2.9 million. The city is widely recognised as being the capital of the northern powerhouse. Always at the forefront of innovation, Manchester was the world’s first industrial city and,...
The UK’s relationship with Europe may now be decided but did it simply serve as a distraction from far more fundamental vulnerabilities in the window and door supply chain? Aluplast’s director of sales and marketing Ian Cocken discusses. You can draw a line down the middle: companies manufacturing and extruding in the UK are publicly promoting the virtues of ‘buying...
By Liniar’s Simone Sangha. This month I'm focusing on customer experience and how website optimisation can improve customer satisfaction, loyalty, return on investment (ROI) and much more. When it comes to a customer’s experience of your brand, a big part of what they see is online. That’s why it’s vital to ensure that your digital presence is always optimised. I...
By Liniar’s Simone Sangha. The Covid pandemic upended how businesses operate, including the way marketers target consumers. We’ve seen those who have put time into planning and strategising are much better than those who failed to do so. During the whirlwind of 2020, customer habits have inevitably evolved with a particular focus on time spent online. With this, marketers have...
Since homeowners are spending twice as much time on home improvements than they did before lockdown, Russell Hand, head of product management and technical at Rehau Windows, says it is vital installers educate homeowners on frame materials available, and adapt their portfolios to best suit their demands. Following disruption caused by the pandemic, the fenestration industry is experiencing something of...
Gareth Jones, managing director of Profine UK, looks at the year ahead for their Kömmerling brand and welcomes the move of the FIT Show until the end of September. 2020 was an unprecedented year, yet at the beginning of 2021 we look to the months ahead as the variables in the form of Covid, raw material supply, and accelerated consumer...
As we begin a new year, systems company Liniar explores the latest online predictions for exterior home trends in 2021. During 2020 we witnessed a shift in consumer buying habits, for two primary reasons: online versus in-person shopping and the inability to socialise. The pandemic forced homeowners to spend more time within their homes and gardens and, as noted throughout...
By Liniar’s Simone Sangha. When looking at a website, people often judge it purely based on how it looks. Of course, appearance is an extremely important component of a website. However, don’t be caught out. Just because a site may look aesthetically pleasing, it doesn’t automatically mean that it works well to carry out its prime objective: to drive leads...
Garnalex CEO Roger Hartshorn looks at the implications of tariffs on imported aluminium, and highlights the benefits of a robust, vertically integrated supply chain. Until 2020, I’m betting most fabricators didn’t know where their aluminium window systems were made. But then Covoid-19 disrupted global trade, leaving containers with their profile orders marooned in ports six to eight weeks away on...
With the end of 2020 in our sights at last, Liniar’s Simone Sangha is looking forward to the year ahead, exploring ways to help companies create a digital strategy that makes a positive impact on their business. Although research shows consumers now follow a much less linear journey when it comes to purchasing decisions, the basic stages still apply: awareness,...
Selecta Systems’ marketing manager Mark Walker explains how online sales and social media engagement have soared in recent months and how it has become more apparent that having a marketing plan for online presence should form a vital part of every businesses marketing strategy. Especially social media. Recent events have seen the way we live change considerably with almost every...
There were many positive and negative reports over the last six months as the world got to grips with the effects of a global pandemic. Selecta Systems’ sales director Andy Green explains how Selecta has coped during this time as it saw exceptional demand for products soar to record levels. What a strange year 2020 has been. We started the...
Sarah Hitchings, sales and marketing director of The Residence Collection, talks about the requirements for conservation areas, what planners are looking for, and some of the colours that inspire her. There are over 10,000 conservation areas in England alone, with one in every local authority, and they vary considerably in their nature and character. According to Historic England “they range...
Recognised as one of the world’s ‘50 Sustainability and Climate Leaders’, Rehau is advocating the benefits of prioritising retrofitting buildings over demolition. Russell Hand, head of product management and technical at Rehau Windows, discusses the positive effects polymer windows can have. The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) estimates that a sizeable proportion of a building’s lifecycle carbon is emitted...
This summer has seen an unprecedented amount of change, including the lack of holidays spent abroad. Paul Garforth, technical director at Liniar, explains how families are upgrading their homes instead, and how the humble sliding patio door has experienced unprecedented levels of sales. For decades, the patio slider was one of the most popular ways for customers to enhance their...
Brian McDonald, sales director for Profine UK, talks about the sales opportunities in the company’s newly expanded product portfolio, which includes the Kömmerling brand and the recently acquired Legend, Evolve and Warmcore. When we arrived back to work after the last Christmas break, few could have predicted a global pandemic, nor that we would be acquiring essential assets off the...