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With 99.8% of Selecta’s deliveries on time and in full, warehouse and logistics manager Peter Lawrence explains how the figures stack up. Making sure that customers receive their orders in full and on time is the key objective of the department, and our otif statistics stand at 99.8%, something we are proud of. One recent improvement is the newer vehicle...
Chris Coxon, head of marketing at Eurocell, discusses what route PVCU can take when it reaches the end of the road. Energy efficiency and sustainability are having an increasing impact on consumers’ general purchasing choices, and so it’s important to see how competing fenestration materials fare in the environmental stakes. In terms of environmental performance, there’s not much to make...
Ireland is gearing up for economic growth, with leading fabricators embracing new system technologies as they access higher margin opportunities. Glass Times reports. The UK market is defined by uncertainty. It’s fortunes heading towards Brexit about as clear as the waters of the Irish Sea on a grey winter’s day but across it, the mood is altogether different. “We’ve had...
What difference does a fabricator really make? They take components supplied by third parties and put them together; they don’t design, they don’t manufacture, they assemble, don’t they? By Stedek’s sales director Richard Hammond. The difference between a mediocre and market-leading window is the quality of the fabricator, and it’s an attitude we particularly apply to our Residence Collection offering....
How important is it for a systems house to audit and approve its fabricators? Liniar asks Garrard Windows why it values being a Liniar Approved fabricator. With a turnover approaching £25 million, with more than 200 staff operating out of an 86,000ft² factory in Buckinghamshire, Garrard’s window and conservatory trade customer base spans the south of England. This firm has...
Based in Westcott, near Aylesbury, Clear Edge was set up to supply its sister company, the garden room company Green Retreats. Sales manager Chris Dyke explains why the company decided to branch out into window and door fabrication, and why Rehau has been the perfect partner during this transition. Green Retreats began life back in 2005, and grew from a...
Independent Network is known for its annual calendar of events, from training sessions and sales seminars, to charity sports days, overnight trips to Europe and much more. The highlight, however, is the official annual Members’ Weekend, this year celebrated at the Chesford Grange Hotel, Warwick. This year’s Independent Network Members’ Weekend was well attended and attracted more than 240 delegates...
HWL claims its non-glass bonded R9 window has been developed to make installation easier. Homeseal Windows put it to the test. “I would never go back to installing R9 glass-bonded – there’s far too much weight in it,” Charlie Owen, managing director and owner of Homeseal Windows Yorkshire, said. “Frame-only supply means you don’t have the glass, you don’t have...
As Ikon launched its new louvre, Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell visited managing director John Park-Davies to learn about the company’s 10 years in business, as well as its plans for growth. Birmingham almost has a mythical attachment to aluminium as a building material, so it was no surprise that it is on the outskirts of this city, in Shard...
Pressure is building on government to introduce a far more rigorous set of standards for new build homes, according to Ian Cocken, director of sales and marketing at Aluplast. Drill down and the figures speak for themselves: 45% of UK carbon emissions come from the built environment; and of these, housing stock accounts for 27%. Dig down further, and 72%...
Sam Tynan, trade sales support representative at Rehau supporting trade counter customers and Authorised Partner installers, and Stephen Beresford, head of marketing communications at Rehau, discuss marketing and how to get yourself noticed. The internet has transformed everything, from the way we communicate with each other to how we purchase goods and services. For a business, harnessing all that digital...
Over the course of the last ten years there has been a steady decline year-on-year in the number of PVCU window and door fabricators operating within the UK. Nevertheless, the number of window, door and conservatory installation businesses has increased over the last few years, with a surge in small installation businesses. Selecta Systems sales director Andy Green analyses the...
Pearl Window Systems is owned by Jeff Walsh, who formed the window fabrication company in 1999 and has since grown it substantially along with his team in Bolton, Lancashire. The business now services the trade, commercial and new build sectors all over the UK. Jeff explains why Pearl chooses to fabricate the Liniar system, and why he is firmly on...
Traditionally white PVCU windows have been the most popular window style with many homeowners. However, with the advent of modern technology and dynamic industry changes, there is now a growing trend for coloured PVCU windows – powered partly by industrial-inspired architecture. Ian Griffiths, managing director of Rehau fabricator Shepley Windows looks at these changing trends. For homeowners, white doesn’t excite....
By Sioned Webb, Marketing Director at Aluk. Searches for aluminium windows on Google have gone up every year since they first started tracking such things way back in 2004 and, last year, I’m delighted to say that they overtook searches for PVCU for the first time. Among homeowners, aluminium windows have very much become the aspirational choice, and it’s not...
Selecta Systems has introduced a new marketing support package that consists of a set of marketing brochures and Connect, a website-based Selecta Support Centre for its fabricator and installer base. Marketing manager Mark Walker explains what’s new. We launched a big and bold full product brochure just over 12 months ago – ‘Your Home Made Beautiful’ – which proved immensely...
Clare Higgins, product manager at Rehau, looks at how the appeal of heritage windows has stood the test of time and how the industry develops ways of balancing the aesthetics of a traditional wooden sash and the low maintenance and efficiency of PVCU. Today, the Rehau Heritage sash window profile remains a popular product, often in areas of conservation or...
An R9 fabricator since 2013, HWL became the first and one of only a handful of manufacturers to offer The Residence Collection unglazed last year. Director Mark Haley explains why and how it did it. It’s hard to imagine that before 2011 flush PVCU casements didn’t exist. If a single system has revolutionised PVCU window manufacture in the last 10...
New studies show that retailers are missing out on increased revenues by not communicating the sustainability of their offer effectively, according to Ian Cocken, director of sales and marketing at Aluplast. Plastics hit the headlines for the wrong reasons at the start of this year with the publication of research that showed we’re slowly poisoning our oceans with single-use plastics....
The Aluk Veranda system is a product that gives customers the perfect add-on to every bifold and sliding door they fit, as well as providing an opportunity to revisit virtually every door installation they have completed in recent years and generate a follow up sale. It’s particularly appealing to installers because it offers an attractive retail gross margin and can...